Sentence examples for small precedents from inspiring English sources
The terrifying speed of metre change in the Rite of Spring is extreme, but has small precedents.
He added that there is, after all, some small precedent for physical impairment in a king signalling strength, not weakness.
A small precedent has been set.
Every incident, however small, risks setting a precedent.
"This violence against such a small child seems without precedent in the history of crime," Pope Francis said.
The critics see those small spaces as a precedent that will be used to justify further development inside the forest.
As the banker (whose name or firm affiliation is never identified) notes in the "Mad Men" episode, there was precedent for small advertising agencies going public.
In the best outcome from the city's perspective, a consent decree could give an outside federal judge or monitor final say over important issues like internal police investigations, anticorruption measures, officer training and even department budgeting, if precedents in smaller cities are any guide.
"We have a lot of precedent for small studies that gave the wrong answer," Blumenthal says.
The reasoning for this usually falls into one of three categories: that the small sliver of legal precedent suggests the law will be upheld, that the court would respect congressional action as a default position, or that individual justices are invested in establishing their bipartisan credentials this go-around.
