Sentence examples for the nearest precedent from inspiring English sources

The nearest precedent for military action on humanitarian or "necessity" grounds would be the 1999 intervention in Kosovo.

The nearest precedent is in 1990, during the insider trading scandals of that era, when Frederick H. Joseph, the former chief executive of Drexel Burnham Lambert, testified in a presentencing hearing for Michael R. Milken, the financier who served prison time for securities violations.

(The work's nearest precedent, in terms of sheer sustained slowness, may be Haydn's "Seven Last Words of Christ," where the meaning is less personal).

But nobody wants to be a defence lawyer, just in case the defendant is a militiaman.The nearest precedent for the UN mission in East Timor is the UN's administration of Cambodia in the early 1990s, when that country was trying to recover from the devastation caused by the Khmers Rouges.

The nearest historical precedent for Labour's dismal performance is 1992, when Conservative Prime Minister John Major thrashed Neil Kinnock despite Labour holding a narrow poll lead right up until the election.

His nearest precedent is Cindy Sherman, whose photographic impersonations of people and creatures who are instantly recognizable, though they happen not to exist, relate rather directly to Trecartin's shape-shifting, goofing, yammering characters.

"This should not be a precedent: rescued people should be taken to the nearest available port," he told the Guardian.

There is as well a notable American precedent for turning to the General Assembly when the near-certainty of vetoes paralyzes the Security Council.

The decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which sets a legal precedent in western states, was seen as unlikely to be reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court in the near future.

Rubbish, we're near to London, well almost near to London, so I claim the "Warwick" precedent.

Mr. Smith waited until near the end of his argument to address the 1986 precedent directly, prompted by a question from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.