Sentence examples for without a precedent from inspiring English sources

This amenity is not without a precedent: the town-house garage of the early 1900s.

Without a precedent for a two-legged play-off final, the Chiefs seemed to think they needed to win by more than a couple of points.

Without a precedent there may be no legal certainty, but Mr. Barroso's statement is causing problems for Ms. Sturgeon's Scottish National Party, which campaigns for independence, because it contradicts its position that an autonomous Scotland would negotiate its new terms of membership from inside the European Union.

But in most places, without a precedent for the use of this technology, law enforcement organizations like Chicago cops have managed to get away with it.

Nevertheless, the association of oncogenic mutations with a favorable prognosis is not without a precedent.

The reported effects on behavior, evoked responses, oscillations, and sources were most pronounced when the mismatch occurred with respect to a precedent established by the same speaker, compared with processing of trials without a precedent or when the precedent had been established by a different speaker.

Ordinarily, a tie vote at the Supreme Court means that the lower court judgment is affirmed, without an opinion and without setting a precedent.

Affirmance by a tie vote resolves only the particular dispute, without setting a precedent for other cases.

They emphasized the difficulty of creating legislation true to the WTO Doha Accord without having a precedent to follow.

("Reasonable" is one of those words that are without meaning until a precedent has been set in the courts).

The new effort is an experiment without a direct precedent, although the Fed tried something similar in the 1960s.