Sentence examples for precedents in a from inspiring English sources

The commissioner's decision-making must meld law, science and regulatory precedents, in a way that maximises the public's interest.

The exhibition shows one of its historical precedents in a dress from 1875 with a corset style bodice.

The dissenters, led by Justice John Paul Stevens, said the majority "blazes through our precedents" in a "dramatic break from our past".

There are no precedents in a case such as this because Spain has had only one king since it became a democracy in 1978.

NEW ORLEANS — Years before Washington spent $787 billion on a national stimulus bill, it staged an unintended trial run in Louisiana, a huge injection of some $51 billion for which historians find few, if any, precedents in a single state.

Perhaps most significantly, it would signal that this Court is willing to abandon over two decades of precedents in a march to eradicate all forms of campaign finance regulations.

It is a dangerous precedent in a representative democracy.

There is even a precedent in a Democratic primary.

Jim Crow laws in the American South served as a precedent in a stricter legal sense.

But, Father Pecklers said: "Will this set a precedent, in a kind of democratic way?

Some astronomers, however, are leading the way toward a future that has much less precedent in a pre-internet world.