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Big Society Capital, the so-called "big society bank" funded by dormant bank accounts, has set a poor precedent.

The World Bank's low standards have set a poor precedent for newer investment banks such as the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank and the New Development Bank, the report continues.

William B. P. Robson, the president and chief executive of the C. D. Howe Institute, a prominent right-of-center research group, said that making up the G.M. shortfall with government money sets a poor precedent.

King told reporters on Tuesday he thought the letter set a poor precedent: "I don't trust the president on this, quite frankly, though I don't know if I'd go public with it to a foreign government".

Michael Catania, executive director of the Nature Conservancy's New Jersey chapter, said that any park established on state lands would set a poor precedent, and that efforts should first focus on ecologically damaged private properties.

Millions of people are empowered, enlightened and entertained through new technologies every day, but there is a cost to this connectedness, and at the very least the impossibility of escaping 24/7 work sets a poor precedent for a work-life balance.

"We will continue to discuss it but I feel it sets a poor precedent.

It sets a poor precedent and sends the wrong message about accountability.

The action set a poor precedent, because upon arriving the birthday party realized the show had been held for them.

Other Native American tribes and competing gambling interests opposed the deal, saying it could set a poor precedent by allowing tribes to build casinos off reservations.

Meanwhile, the Greek debt deal sets a poor precedent for how the rest of Europe's debt problems will get handled.

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