Sentence examples for to create a precedent from inspiring English sources

He said in his resignation letter that "to create a precedent for unilateral military action" was wrong.

In practice I believe it is against Britain's interests to create a precedent for unilateral military action.

The District Court may well be correct, but I am not prepared to create a precedent in this Court by summarily affirming its decision.

The reason, he said, "was the geo-strategic spreading of NATO's interests and its areas and also to create a precedent for using force".

Critics said the administration was trying to create a precedent for viewing a fetus as a separate physical and legal entity, with its own rights.

"The risks to British taxpayers' liability is actually very small indeed, although I understand why he [Osborne] doesn't want to create a precedent".

In a sign of the sensitivity to creating a precedent for calling for the removal of any Arab leader, the league's secretary general, Amr Moussa, refused to discuss the proposal during a news conference tonight.

He warned that it threatened to create a dangerous precedent.

But in a blistering dissent, one justice accused the majority of having "butchered" the law to create a "dangerous precedent" that altered the rights of waterfront-property owners.

To establish uniformity between the articles within individual issues of the Columbia Undergraduate Law Review and to create a style precedent for future editions.

It is also critical not to create a broad precedent for public hunting in the national parks, which would undermine their protected status.