Sentence examples for precedents than from inspiring English sources

Ultimately you may spend more time thinking about Ms. Essenhigh's ideas, ambition and impressive array of precedents than you do enjoying or contemplating her work as complete paintings.

Indeed he did, and his elegant topiaries and hedges rely more on English and North Carolinian precedents than the actualities of Colonial Virginia.

In Germany, too, privacy is protected, though more by precedent than by penal sanction.

But the move sets less of a precedent than it might appear.

The judge's defenders retort that he was more faithful to Justice O'Connor's precedent than she herself was.

He also described Roe as "binding precedent," although a Supreme Court Justice is far less bound by precedent than any lower-court judge.

(Far lamer cop shows hit the jackpot each year; a bad show that makes money can set more of a precedent than a good one).

In his opinion, Justice Thomas paid "far less deference to prior rulings" — that is, to precedent — "than anyone else on the court".

The abrupt unseating of Mr Morsi would seem to be setting a far more ominous precedent than the ousting of the country's last ageing tyrant.

And his own clean-out is far from complete: "We should do more", he says firmly.To justify this, his argument turns less on precedent than on pathology.

Still, Kobach's long game may have had less to do with creating legal precedent than it did with sowing social discord.