Sentence examples for precedents established from inspiring English sources

He said that in refusing to go along, the board was leaving some of its vote-counting policies at odds with looser precedents established by the courts.

Judge Colleen McMahon of United States District Court said legal precedents established that even when the government helped commit a crime, others could be prosecuted.

Interspersed with the sonatas, whose innovative forms and styles depart from the precedents established by Mozart and Haydn, were selections from Beethoven's Bagatelles (Op. 119).

She said that advertisers follow the precedents established by the rulings more closely than their advertising agencies, since it is the advertisers themselves that are held accountable.

In pre-Islamic Arabia, the term sunnah referred to precedents established by tribal ancestors, accepted as normative and practiced by the entire community.

She persuaded him to stop teaching and get an office where they could begin to build on the precedents established by Rogers and Foster, toward a more organic, voluptuous, formally inventive architecture.

In the memo, he reviewed the court's recent precedents establishing a right to privacy for the use of birth control and the private possession of pornography.

Some legal scholars pointed to the precedents establishing the standard that monopoly remedies should eliminate the monopoly, deny the defendant the ill-gotten gains from illegal acts and protect against similar abuses in the future.

He has repeatedly assailed Orman's support for a constitutional amendment to reverse decades of legal precedents establishing campaign spending as a form of First Amendment-protected speech.

And what about the precedent established by Mr. Romney?

The 1994 precedent established that gays constituted a social group.