Sentence examples for successful precedents from inspiring English sources

There are successful precedents.

There are successful precedents for the fictional exploration of Tolstoy's life.

While the notion of political commissions is worthy of skepticism, there are reasonably successful precedents.

"Memory Wound" seemed to me, in truth, a bad idea, more lacerating than consoling, though only by a degree when compared with more successful precedents.

If previous Tintin adaptations are anything to go by, his grandiose talk stems from some successful precedents: the 1991 animated TV series The Adventures of Tintin aired in at least 17 countries, Hergé's Adventures of Tintin, a theatrical adaptation staged at London's Young Vic, played to sell-out audiences, and the movie franchise will roll on.

Internationally, there are successful precedents of similar rulings.

We have a historic and successful precedent.

The Merkley plan has a successful precedent in the Home Owners Loan Corporationn, established in 1933.

At the meeting, Ms. Schimel said that without successful precedent, she would not pursue legislation.

MBDA, a joint-venture forged in 2001 through which BAE, EADS and Finmeccanica merged their missile-making subsidiaries, is a successful precedent.

A successful precedent counts too, which is why sequels generally fall around the same time as the movies that came before them.