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"The appeal could be seeking to overturn a certain facet of the ruling which General Electric doesn't want to see set as a precedent," said Jane Golding, an antitrust lawyer with Taylor Joynson Garrett in Brussels.

The precedents he set as a humanitarian.

At the same time, it set a precedent (as yet unmatched) for the informed, principled discussion of the fundamental aims of American foreign policy.

Another manager says: "We need an artist to take an audit all the way, so as to set a precedent.

This decision would take on added meaning for British Olympic sport as it set a precedent that ultimately brought down Team GB's lifetime doping ban.

Although he's concerned that myelination seen in mouse models might not "scale up" to a disease as severe as Pelizaeus-Merzbacher in humans, Ian Duncan, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, describes the study as setting a precedent for translating animal research in stem cells to humans.

"I wouldn't characterize this as setting a precedent," Ms. Fink continued, "but it may give other people ideas as to the possibilities that exist for their property".

Toyota is so powerful in Japan that events linked to the company can be seen as setting a precedent.

He also said his ruling should not be viewed as setting a precedent for whether similar behavior in the future would merit suspensions or fines.

Nor should we be interpreted as setting a precedent for switching to the rule of reason every time a court identifies an efficiency justification for a tying arrangement.

"TTIP is perhaps more relevant as setting a precedent vis-a-vis third countries than governing trade and investment bilaterally," the paper says.