Sentence examples for precedents bound from inspiring English sources

In a 12 August 2007 New York Times review of Deathly Hallows, however, Christopher Hitchens praised Rowling for "unmooring" her "English school story" from literary precedents "bound up with dreams of wealth and class and snobbery", arguing that she had instead created "a world of youthful democracy and diversity".

Prior precedent binds the court to do its utmost to find acts of Congress constitutional: "every reasonable construction must be resorted to, in order to save a statute from unconstitutionality," according to Hooper v California.

On the D.C. Circuit, Scalia built a conservative record, while winning applause in legal circles for powerful, witty legal writing, which was often critical of the Supreme Court precedents he felt bound as a lower-court judge to follow.

He also described Roe as "binding precedent," although a Supreme Court Justice is far less bound by precedent than any lower-court judge.

Unlike in the U.S., "Brazilian courts are not bound by precedents, and any judge can decide according to her own discretion.

The facts in a case may fall outside the ratio of an existing precedent, and thus the court is not bound by the precedent.

Brown will not be bound by precedent.

Popes are not bound by precedent on such matters.

The committee itself says it isn't bound by precedent.

Refusing to be bound by precedent while pretending to respect it, this judge has outdone them.

While I can't answer your question, perhaps it would help if I said that I am bound by precedent and my mind is always open.