Republicans claimed that the use of the filibuster against judicial nominees who had majority support on the floor was unprecedented — a charge that had some elements of truth.
In the global canon of teen-angst literature, the novel was tame, but in China it was unprecedented: a scathingly realistic satire of education and authority, written by a nobody.
"While the extent of the collapse was unprecedented, a manager who owned the housing-dependent stocks or the investment banks with the greatest leverage should have known better," he said.
The idea behind it, first discussed decades ago, was unprecedented — a monumental gate with two arms, resting on either side of the canal, each arm as tall and twice as heavy as the Eiffel Tower.
The moment was as remarkable as it was unprecedented: A sitting U.S. secretary of state took to the microphone to pledge his fealty to the president — despite his well-documented unhappiness in the job and the growing presumption in Washington that he is a short-timer.
Companies are increasingly able to garner and exploit insights into their customer bases at a scale that was unprecedented a few years ago.
