Sentence examples for unprecedented order from inspiring English sources

As the report notes: "This was an unprecedented order.

Ewing's unprecedented order drew upon the federal government's crackdown on guerrilla warfare during the war.

John O'Neill, a 45-year-old IT consultant, could face up to five years in prison if he fails to comply with the unprecedented order.

Individual F.A.A. controllers, facility managers, and command center managers were creative and agile in recommending a nationwide alert, ground-stopping local traffic, ordering all aircraft nationwide to land, and executing that unprecedented order flawlessly.

On Friday, city officials issued what they called an unprecedented order for the evacuation of about 370,000 residents of low-lying areas, warning that Hurricane Irene was such a threat that people living there simply had to get out.

LOS ANGELES — Facing an unprecedented order from the Supreme Court to decrease its inmate population by 11,000 over the next three months and by 34,000 over the next two years, California prisons last week began to shift inmates to county jails and probation officers, starting what many believe will be a fundamental and far-reaching change in the nation's largest corrections system.

He said: "The crown has sought and obtained unprecedented orders" and the trial "should take place entirely in private".

"The crown has sought and obtained unprecedented orders that the trial of two defendants charged with serious terrorism offences should take place entirely in private with the identities of both defendants withheld and a permanent prohibition on reporting what takes place during the trial.

"If these two men have a trial completely in secret – we don't know their names, we don't know the evidence against them – how can we ever have the confidence they were convicted properly?" The appeal court has heard that the crown sought and obtained unprecedented orders to hold the trial in secret and to withhold the men's identities, on the grounds of national security last month.

Lawyers for Mr. Berlinger filed an emergency appeal with the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, denouncing Judge Kaplan's "unprecedented, blunderbuss order" and asking that it be overturned.

In a move that received surprisingly little attention, Barack Obama signed an unprecedented executive order in July declaring the infiltration of financial and commercial markets by transnational criminal groups to be a national emergency.