Sentence examples for precedents often from inspiring English sources

Mr. Nissinen, the company's artistic director, draws on diverse "Nutcracker" precedents, often deriving obliquely from the 1940 Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo version.

American critics and musicologists, searching for precedents, often reach back to Amy Beach (1867-1944), a superb professional who created a large and sturdy catalogue of late-Romantic music that compares well with that of her contemporaries.

"They will readily cite you past precedent; often their records were better than ones I could access".

Between the use of Glass at fashion weeks past and present and magazines' inclusion of the technology in photoshoots, the precedent (often kitschy but not always) is there.

The precedent most often invoked to justify the mandate, 1942's Wickard v. Filburn, seems in hindsight like a reductio ad absurdum of government overreach.

The precedent he often refers to was set over a century ago by William McKinley, another Republican with brilliant advisers, who narrowly defeated a populist Democrat (William Jennings Bryan) in 1896 and established a Republican hegemony that lasted more than three decades.

The use of chopsticks in the East and forks in the West illustrates how obeying precedent is often the most practical policy, since these respective implements are more readily available in the respective locations.

The precedent most often cited by critics of "treaty law" was Missouri v. Holland.

Despite such precedents, every so often diners at the Linkery take offense.

Often, precedents are sought in setting criteria.

By then, a series of precedents had intervened, often based on Oliver Wendell Holmes's "clear and present danger" test, leaving him less room for maneuver.