Sentence examples for precedents there from inspiring English sources

The defence argued that in all precedents there had been a pregnancy resulting, and that without one the plaintiffs could not claim damages.

The Senate often makes precedents — there are more than 1,000 pages of them in the Senate procedure book — which define the rules, and they come and go.

Nonetheless, with these precedents, there was an extraordinary explosion in the 1980s.

I don't know about precedent there.

Once you start that precedent, there's no going back".

"There's no precedent; there's no way to predict," said Steven A. Greenberg, a pollster at Siena College.

"It is precedent, there's no question about that," said Philip McBride Johnson, a former chairman of the trading commission who is now a consultant in the futures industry.

A lyric here, a legal precedent there and pretty soon he will have one of the hundreds of decisions he writes every year.

In a departure from traditional practices but in accordance with the Yuan precedent, there was only one type of examination given in Ming times.

Given this precedent, there are many reasons to hastily register people who might face grave danger while awaiting asylum.

There are so many lively precedents out there for that kind of vigilance.