Sentence examples for precedent than from inspiring English sources

In Germany, too, privacy is protected, though more by precedent than by penal sanction.

But the move sets less of a precedent than it might appear.

The judge's defenders retort that he was more faithful to Justice O'Connor's precedent than she herself was.

(Far lamer cop shows hit the jackpot each year; a bad show that makes money can set more of a precedent than a good one).

In his opinion, Justice Thomas paid "far less deference to prior rulings" — that is, to precedent — "than anyone else on the court".

The abrupt unseating of Mr Morsi would seem to be setting a far more ominous precedent than the ousting of the country's last ageing tyrant.

Ultimately you may spend more time thinking about Ms. Essenhigh's ideas, ambition and impressive array of precedents than you do enjoying or contemplating her work as complete paintings.

Indeed he did, and his elegant topiaries and hedges rely more on English and North Carolinian precedents than the actualities of Colonial Virginia.

But critics say the actual numbers are less important than the precedent that the reclassification would set.

Since Washington's first presidential executive orders -- he issued eight -- presidents have followed his precedent more than 13,500 times: Theodore Roosevelt more than 1,000 times, Woodrow Wilson more than 1,800, Franklin D. Roosevelt, more than 3,500 (the most of any president), and Obama, approaching 200 times.

Here, to be sure, I am relying on precedent rather than textual analysis.