Sentence examples for previous precedent from inspiring English sources

You'd think there would have been cheering from coast to coast, but the left was disheartened to discover that contrary to all previous precedent, Congress had passed a bill that was imperfect.

Lyne asked: "Do you think it was appropriate and in line with established practice for the attorney to give what was intended to be formal law officers' advice in draft to its ultimate recipient, conceivably thereby opening up a process of negotiation?" Wilmshurst replied: "I'm not myself aware of a previous precedent for this.

Fearing the two agencies had been left inoperable, Obama used his appointment power in January 2012 to temporarily fill those spots, rejecting decades of previous precedent that dictated a president could do so only while the Senate was adjourned for a lengthy period.

Also ignoring previous precedent, George W. Bush attended no military funerals.

In the Friedrichs case, some of the liberal Justices seemed worried about overturning a previous precedent.

The decision also contradicted previous precedent as to the nature of evidence.

Parvais Jabbar, co-executive director of DPP argues, that if the conviction appeals fail, following previous precedents, the privy council should commute the men's sentences to terms of imprisonment.

The presidential spokesman, Yasser Ali, said for the first time that Mr. Morsi had sought only to assert pre-existing powers already approved by the courts under previous precedents, not to free himself from judicial oversight.

The move is right, said Walter Dellinger, who led the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel in the Clinton administration, because the proposed attack is not "covered by any of the previous precedents for the unilateral use of executive power".

In a memorandum, its first Office of Legal Counsel head, David Barron, cited the previous precedents and agreed that the State Department could keep attending such meetings because Congress cannot "place limits on the president's use of his preferred agents" for diplomacy.

In addition to disagreeing about the value of previous precedents, the conservative justices disagree among themselves about what the founders would have thought about technologies and institutions that didn't exist when the Constitution was written.