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"Given the critical safety and deliverability concerns associated with operating a natural gas pipeline," Mr. Wise said, "it is inappropriate and without precedent to second-guess a pipeline's day-to-day operations".

Meanwhile Israeli security head Avi Dichter has warned that a new platform being adopted by Fatah, calling for resumption of a limited armed struggle against Israel, could be the precedent to a third Palestinian Intifadah, or uprising.

Its lawyers have long relied on a 34-year-old precedent to argue that the Fourth-Amendment protection against unreasonable searches does not apply to metadata.

Was this a proper use of the state's resources and a precedent to be proud of – the first time any state in the west had decided to guarantee the basic subsistence of many of its citizens?

Black, however, was attempting to free it from decades of conservative precedents by going back to first principles.

In Texas politics, there is precedent for second acts following crushing national defeats.

The urgency is greater this year since the Citizens United decision in January, in which the Roberts court threw out precedents to rule that corporations have First Amendment rights to spend money in election campaigns.

Decide what needs to take precedent first and stick to it.

The legal process for YBM is certain to be a long one, so it is on insider trading that the commission hopes to first establish important precedents.

Allowing the ombudsman to make recommendations would be going a step too far in setting a precedent for second-guessing the Council's decisions, according to diplomats and others familiar with the negotiations.

The precedent of a second time may be difficult, if not impossible, to overcome.