Sentence examples for useful precedent from inspiring English sources

Reportage on Zuckerberg's plan has invariably name-checked two prominent late-Victorian exemplars – Port Sunlight, the model village founded by William Lever in 1888 for employees of the Lever Brothers' detergent business, and Bournville, George Cadbury's 1879 experiment in total living – but these probably don't furnish us with the most useful precedent.

The cold war is a useful precedent.

This week's letter from a number of business leaders also has a useful precedent.

Cast around for a useful precedent for what Sedaris does, and you quickly get lost.

This drew a few groans, but I think a useful precedent has been set for 2012.

In modern times, only the North Koreans have created a hereditary dictatorship: not a useful precedent.

But that experience has provided a number of useful precedents for planning, testing, regulatory issues, publicity and use of the Internet for coordinating the work.

Barfi had combed through the Koran and Islamic history, trying to find useful precedents for a hostage release.

This is all the more puzzling because the Tea Party movement did not lack for useful precedents or operating models.

The FiveThirtyEight model, lacking useful precedents or any theory of what determines how people vote, can't really help us answer that question.

The Participle team also searched for useful precedents, and found them in community youth projects such as the Harlem Children's Zone in the United States and the Saturday School program in the Netherlands.