Sentence examples for precedents as from inspiring English sources

Walker Evans's surreptitious photographs of subway riders are precedents; as are, less expectedly, Duane Hanson's inertly lifelike sculptures.

His writings on Indian law include a noted study on constitutional precedents as well as articles on human rights in India.

On the bench, she has been an incrementalist, and is usually reluctant to endorse the direct overturning of precedents as important as Bakke.The court does sometimes spring surprises.

He has drawn on precedents as varied as Mogul opium dens and French portrait galleries for commissions ranging from chateaus to gyms.

He cited such disparate sources as the Ten Commandments and the Declaration of Independence and precedents as varied as the civil rights movement and the creation of Medicare.

Similarly last month, the supreme court of the United States (Scotus) overturned not only a century of legislation designed to limit corporate money in federal elections, but several of its own precedents as well.

The best news about "We Move" is that Mr. Vasandani seems comfortable with precedent as well as freedom.

There are now written laws and the judges work entirely on precedent, as remember by the older folk.

He added, correctly, as it turned out, that other courts would follow the precedent as surely as "a flock of sea gulls follows a lobster boat".

An entire room is given over to contemporary art from India, setting a precedent, as far as I know, for an American museum.

Judge Oakes predicted that other courts would follow the precedent as surely as "a flock of sea gulls follows a lobster boat".