Sentence examples for the precedents of from inspiring English sources

Restrained judges are also less willing to overturn the precedents of prior judicial decisions.

He said she issues business opinions that hew closely to the precedents of her circuit and of the Supreme Court.

That might seem implausible but for the precedents of past summit meetings — which have included ponchos and what looked like gowns for pregnant bridesmaids.

This is essentially a bhakti movement, broadly following the precedents of Chaitanya (1485 1533), a mystic poet and worshipper of Krishna whose practices have influenced devotional Hinduism.

Drawing on the precedents of Allan Ramsay and Robert Fergusson, Burns demonstrated how Scottish idioms and ballad modes could lend a new vitality to the language of poetry.

What will become of Somalia is a question that can readily be answered on the basis of the precedents of both Afghanistan and Iraq.

These were based on the precedent of an ambitious series of caves built in the preceding decades at Yungang.

Consider the precedent of cellular phones.

Set the precedent of kissing the Bible.

He points to the precedent of the Josephson-junction circuit.

"It had upheld the precedent of not judging Mexicans overseas.