Sentence examples for remarkable precedent from inspiring English sources

Permanently setting aside 150 million acres would still leave plenty of room for economic development in northern Quebec, and it would set a remarkable precedent for sustainable use.

Paul Udoto, a spokesperson for the Kenya Wildlife Service, told AFP news agency that the ruling was a "remarkable precedent" and rangers in Kenya would be motivated by seeing that poachers could no longer get away with a mere "slap on the wrist".

Although Mr. Peña-Irala was sent back to Paraguay and none of the $10 million judgment has yet been paid, our case established a remarkable precedent: from Ethiopia's Red Terror to Argentina's Dirty War to the Philippines' dictatorship under Ferdinand Marcos, in 19 instances survivors or victims' relatives have used this law to obtain a measure of justice.

Open source developer Bruno Lowagie is about to set a remarkable precedent in the F/OSS world by restricting any government body in his (and my) home country, Belgium, to use any product that makes use of technology originally developed by him.

The rebuff is a remarkable breach of precedent at the traditionally conservative university.

In a remarkable departure from precedent, for two hours she sat in the Ladies' Gallery overlooking the chamber while the Parliament Bill, a bill to remove the right of the House of Lords to veto legislation, was debated.

Mr. Bloomberg's drop in popularity is remarkable but not without precedent.

The moment is as remarkable as the possible precedent: Over the past few weeks, Russia, in a new burst of military assertiveness, said through the secretary of its national security council, Nikolai Patrushev, that it was lowering the threshold for the preventive use of its nuclear weapons to include, beyond big wars, "aggressors" using conventional weapons in regional or local conflicts.

It is a remarkable departure from historical precedent.

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative launched in 1988 has been a remarkable endeavour prompted by the precedent of smallpox eradication.

But while the pope looked forward, many of the church prelates, politicians and pilgrims who had descended on Rome over the past few days looked back: at John Paul's remarkable reign, so rife with precedents, so filled with drama.