Sentence examples for procedures and precedents from inspiring English sources

The English don't have a written constitution, but rather a dusty stack of procedures and precedents, and everyone agrees that this needs changing.

Supreme Court opinions contain two types of facts: "adjudicative" facts, which deal with legal procedure and precedent, and "legislative" facts, which are assertions about the outside world and how real life works.

Each of these complementary systems has elaborate procedures and abundant precedents consistent with our basic constitutional principles and the rule of law.

Major recent changes in the management of chronic conditions may offer principles and precedents for preparing of materials and procedures that "work".

Yuan's defiance of constitutional procedures and his dissolution of parliament also set precedents that were later repeated.

Bureaucratic decisions and above all procedures are grounded in codified rules and precedents.

Office-based rhinologic procedures have precedents.

*Precedent is being set, and a full legal resolution will help establish legal procedures and popular expectations should similar circumstances arise in future elections.

Pierrot's idea, that patients sharing the same symptoms might benefit from being away from other kinds of patients and being cared for by staff skilled in one sort of procedure, had precedents.

This is not a question of tampering with Islamic law; it is a matter of standardising precedent, procedure and penalty so that citizens know where they stand.

Many of the rules and procedures of Parliament are not laid down in the Constitution Act but are established by (often British) convention and precedent.