Sentence examples for precedent way from inspiring English sources

"It would create an enormous precedent way beyond prescription drugs, affecting research on energy conservation by oil companies, fuel efficiency by automakers, health benefits by food companies.

It's a lousy precedent either way, and indicative, I think, of the way most fans are coming to view this saga now that it may be nearing the end: with ambivalence, and a sense of lousiness all around.

And it would set a meddlesome precedent, another way to deplete investor confidence.

The hearing would set a precedent, whichever way it was determined.

So without any precedent or way to assign a "book value" to the currency, no one really knows what to think or do.

Union Dues A seemingly minor dispute about procedures for collecting union dues provoked a sharp split among the justice, as members of the court's liberal wing accused the majority of addressing questions not presented by the case and revising precedents in ways that will diminish union power.

Instead, she worries, the new precedent paves the way for the court to dismiss several other pending corruption cases.

"I can't think of a precedent for the way that Romney was up, then Perry comes along.

That could set a precedent for the way in which other governments deal with mining firms.Still, risks abound.

And it's a bad precedent, in a way, to say we'll solve the problems of the N.I.H. by doing this, state by state".

Presumably Anley hopes this will set a new precedent in the way the library is treated (it shut for five years after a nasty arson attack in 2004).