Sentence examples for year precedent from inspiring English sources

While the Nuclear Regulatory Commission NRCC) initially prevented the plant from using the scabs, it has now--under political pressure--taken the unprecedented step of waving its 60 year precedent of not allowing scabs to work in this extremely dangerous uranium facility.

The change scrapped a 20-year precedent in the handling of deportation hearings overseen by the Justice Department.

"They are seeking to change a 20-year precedent," the current town supervisor, Kate Murray, a Republican, said of the condo proposal.

The Democratic party platform's section on Israel, which broke with previous years' precedent by removing the explicit reference to Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, had sparked furious outcries among Republicans and the pro-Israel crowd.

Davies's story was only one among many that populated a year without precedent.

But in a year when precedent was established to suspend athletes without a failed drug test, as in the Balco-related cases of Montgomery and Gaines, we should also recognize the possibility of the pendulum swinging too far.

Hepworth's "apparently" and "seemed to be" are the key words there; just out of his teens, he was naive, but knew enough to convince himself that this was a year without precedent.

But if the past year is precedent, our hopes will be burdened with too many uncertainties.

While we opposed the Court's decision to overrule 70 years of precedent and over 200 years of Second Amendment history, gun violence prevention advocates praised Section III of Justice Antonin Scalia's decision to find a wide variety of gun control regulations "presumptively lawful" under the Constitution.

When Ted Cruz lobbed a stinker to the audience, claiming that "we have 80 years of precedent of not confirming Supreme Court justices in an election year," Dickerson fact-checked the Texas Senator, leaving Cruz with the face of a college debate champ who has just been called out in front of a room full of homecoming queens.

They included the overturning of a 23-year-old precedent on the right to counsel and a 20-year-old precedent on age discrimination.