Sentence examples for precedents in which from inspiring English sources

And there are some precedents in which disaffected or mentally unstable people have exploded suicide bombs.

There are plenty of precedents in which violence threatened to derail Middle East peace accords.

They continued to argue that the Supreme Constitutional Court had no authority to dissolve Parliament, citing precedents in which the previous Parliament had rebuffed such judicial interventions.

The brief also outlined precedents in which courts have allowed publication of libelous material and let victims of the libel seek financial remedies after publication.

There are not really any recent precedents in which a candidate has led by something like 49 percent to 46 percent in the final polling average, as Mr. Obama does now in Ohio, and has wound up losing the state.

There was ample reason for that assumption, since Chief Justice Roberts had earlier made clear his distaste for precedents in which the court has gone beyond a statute's text to infer a basis for a lawsuit.

Analysts could not think of a precedent in which a domestic airline ever owned a refinery.

I explained last Term that such a rule ignores well-settled precedent in which this Court has refused repeatedly to apply new rules retroactively in civil cases.

Moreover, negotiating under these circumstances sets a dangerous precedent in which the nation can be held hostage to overturn laws that have been democratically settled.

But some insiders said the administration was nervous about setting a precedent in which officials and former officials may be summoned before a court outside the United States.

"If we set a precedent in which a dictator in another country can disrupt... a company's distribution chain or its products and, as a consequence, we start censoring ourselves, that's a problem," he said.