Sentence examples for serves as precedent from inspiring English sources

Yet if the Betamax decision serves as precedent, the repercussions are likely to extend beyond the publishing industry.

If our experience with block grants serves as precedent, it is most likely to become less generous over time.

Much as I welcome the New York Philharmonic's role in peacemaking, if a family memory serves as precedent, it may be some time before the orchestra's visit to North Korea has any positive effect.

While it is reasonable for politicians to shy away from rationing — especially when voters believe no expense should be spared to save a human life — if the experience of other countries serves as precedent, they will probably get there sooner or later.

While the financial meltdown and ensuing bailouts came before Obama, the lack of reform or accountability does not win him any gratitude from either side, it only serves as precedent that selling bundled crap mortgages to old people goes unpunished.

Britain's experience might serve as precedent.

But the court could also rule that it was merely a statement that cannot serve as precedent.

Tom Bollyky of the Council on Foreign Relations suggests that the office of the trade representative could formally reassure U.S. businesses that supporting tobacco control in the TPP cannot serve as precedent under other circumstances.

Even though Conlon vacated her order, her ruling that Vincent exceeded his authority remains the last decision in a lawsuit against the baseball commissioner and could serve as precedent for future cases.

As Justice Ginsburg put it in a question to the lawyer defending DOMA, in Reed v Reed, the 1971 case serving as precedent for Frontiero, "the Court said this is rank discrimination and it failed" to pass the minimal scrutiny of the rational basis test.

The lessons learned here served as precedent for those seeking guidance, but didn't necessarily translate intro industry-wide standards.