Sentence examples for sort of precedent from inspiring English sources

It's probably going to set some sort of precedent.

What sort of precedent for voting away minorities' rights would it set?

That is the message from Bosnia & Hercegovina, another part of former Yugoslavia which offers a rough sort of precedent.

It is not the sort of precedent that contemporary legislators wish to rely on The current impeachment proceeding may be setting precedents for future generations.

The court in Senegal may well be a one-off, but it sets the right sort of precedent for the continent's abusive presidents.

For #KillAllMen to actually be as scary as some people are making out, there would have to be some sort of precedent.

This would open a Pandora's box of all sorts of precedent-setting and legal issues.

While rock and rollers were using tape trickery for novelties -- early pop sampling, for instance, in Dickie Goodman's "flying saucer" comedy singles, with a deadpan interviewer answered by snippets of current hits -- academic composers and eccentric souls were devising all sorts of precedents.

But it is unclear exactly what sort of a precedent it might set.

Now, with the Bush administration itself promoting the virtue of pre-emptive strikes, Japan has emerged as possibly offering a very different sort of historical precedent.

But then Mr Bernstein goes on to say something that isn't true at all (my emphasis):A defeat for Obama's plans will not set any sort of terrible precedent.