Sentence examples for precedent plays from inspiring English sources

That general downward trend also seems to demonstrate that law (at least in the limited sense of obeying Supreme Court precedent) plays a significant role in deciding cases.

And yet precedent plays a very important role in the American system of justice.

Journey was a critical and commercial success that arrived without much in the way of how-it-works precedent, playing like nothing most that picked it up had seen before.

There is also a precedent for playing football — even quarterback.

In March, the Prague Chamber Orchestra, which set a precedent in playing conductorless, appears at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Senegal boss Alain Giresse, who was told Sakho had withdrawn as he could not fly because of a back injury, claimed West Ham had "set a dangerous precedent" by playing him.

The four finalists were all plenty smart and in full command of the statutes and precedents in play.

One of the Supreme Court precedents at play in the case is Kerry v. Din, in which Justice Anthony Kennedy, in a controlling concurrence, wrote that, although the courts generally ought to take the executive branch's immigration decisions at face value, they could question the premise and the facts in certain cases, when there was "an affirmative showing of bad faith".

In what is the first credit-crunch election in a big Western country, Mr Harper's ejection would set a dispiriting precedent that panic plays better politically than prudence.

Go-Toba was 20 when he abdicated; he was the consummate amateur, skilled at playing the lute, considered an authority on traditional learning and courtly precedent, excellent at playing Go, and fond of equestrian pursuits such as horseback archery, shooting at running dogs, and swordsmanship.

Allowing our leaders to set this kind of precedent would be playing a dangerous game.