The court overturned that precedent today.
Everything we're seeing now, had its precedent two years ago.
The Arts Council of Ireland set a brave precedent last year when it invited nominations for the first ever post of this kind.
There was ample precedent: earlier this month, the ceremony unveiling the new interim government was shelled and attacked by a car bomber.
Gov. David A. Paterson of New York set the precedent last year when he took $90 million from the money generated by the initiative to deal with a projected state budget deficit of nearly $50 billion through March 2013.
He unintentionally set a new national legal precedent last year when the United States Supreme Court ruled that judges must disqualify themselves from cases involving people who spent unusually large sums to elect them.
The environmental agency broke with decades of precedent last month and denied California a waiver to move forward with its proposed limits on vehicular emissions of heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld broke with precedent today by reaching out to a retired Special Operations commander as his choice for Army chief of staff, sending an unmistakable signal of his desire to reshape the oldest and largest armed service.
Stung, perhaps, by the lukewarm reception to the daring black-and-red dress she wore on election night (one wit described that as "an apron designed by Mark Rothko") she seemed to lean a little too heavily on recent precedent today.
And recent events provide a discouraging precedent: last fall, the support and momentum behind the Dakota Access Pipeline protests were staggering; donations hit seven figures, camp populations swelled into the thousands, celebrities threw their weight behind the movement.
