Sentence examples for striking precedent from inspiring English sources

If Gunn won the case, this would create a striking precedent.

Indeed, here is a striking precedent of a previous case as well, as Rauschen [3] also notes in his opinion piece but for other reasons.

In describing mid-19th-century Cleveland, Mr. Chandler rather runs away with himself; as an example of "the sudden eruption of multiple genius at a specific time and place," it reminds him, among other equally striking precedents, of Periclean Athens and Florence under the Medici.

But amid all the commemorative ruckus over the 50th anniversary of that seminal year, one of the most striking precedents it set has been largely forgotten: 1968 was the first year in the history of the United States in which not a single prisoner was executed.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — A powerful former president in Iran who supports its opposition movement has been barred from speaking at a major commemorative rally there on Friday, in a striking break from precedent that suggests the country's hard-line leaders fear the event could turn into an opposition rally.

Yet it marks a striking break from precedent.

(That's what RAs are becoming, coders of zeroes and ones). We're finding striking results that particular precedents are followed by a large (and unanticipated) majority of states.

That would mean six votes for striking DOMA, but no clear precedent.

A recent analysis of bovine type-I interferons from the assembled Bos taurus genome [ 32] finds 26 intact IFNW genes, providing precedent for our otherwise striking results.

However, President Bill Clinton did not seek authorization when striking Kosovo in 1999 -- a conflict that the Obama administration sees as precedent for a potential strike in Syria, according to The New York Times.

This striking exhibition suggests that Myron Stout reached maturity by taking firm possession of two disparate precedents: Arthur Dove's nature-based visionary paintings and Mondrian's inspired edifices of line, plane and color.