Sentence examples for significant precedent from inspiring English sources

But whether or not Mr. Daqduq ever comes before a tribunal, the charges are a significant precedent.

The Home Office's decision to accept denial of the existence of God as grounds for protection could set a significant precedent in asylum and immigration cases.

A new regulatory framework for gain-of-function research could set a significant precedent by creating a new standard for oversight in the life sciences.

At least that was the case until Friday night, when the NRL set a significant precedent by postponing the Anzac Test for over 40 hours.

In a wrap-up article about the celebration last Sunday, a Washington Post critic wrote that "there is no significant precedent for this style of producing".

"This is a very significant precedent, which I believe will generate a follow-through for any major government award," he said.

Oddly, one of the few significant precedents for this building is also in Munich: Frei Otto and Günter Behnisch's great Olympic Stadium of 1972, with its lyrical Plexiglas roof.

Bratza stressed that many landmark decision by UK courts had been adopted by the ECHR as significant precedents and pointed out that in 2010 there were 1,200 applications from the UK considered by the ECHR of which 1,177 were struck out or deemed inadmissable.

It's a kind of equivalent in music of Lady Butler's war paintings in the later 19th century in Britain: Farrenc is asking to be taken seriously as a symphonist in a genre in which there were no significant precedents for a woman competing on her own terms with any of the Great Men of the past or the present.

There are significant precedents in American history for private action as the means of addressing public problems including the problem of assisting disadvantaged children.

As you well know there were several other significant precedents all over the world since last century but this is the first one in Europe.