Sentence examples for precedents by from inspiring English sources

Nor are there any precedents by which to judge our new intellectual wealth.

The paintings eke past this bastion of precedents by seeming completely uncomposed and unstable.

They warn that Brussels officials will be loth to set any precedents by forgiving Greek debt.

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

Governments could follow corporate precedents by treating new employees differently and by stopping existing employees from accumulating new benefits.

Looking to precedents by Mussorgsky, among others, Prokofiev decided to write a dialogue-driven opera, almost an anti-opera.

To ensure consistency, courts abide by precedents set by higher courts examining the same issue.

Disraeli set a precedent by resigning before Parliament met.

There was no precedent by which to measure it.

Of course, Francis could follow Benedict XVI's precedent by resigning the papacy before his death.

The most famous one set a false precedent by getting away with it.