How To Use Precedent In A Sentence

There is already a great deal of precedent since polygamy has been widely practiced throughout history.
The financial managers and economic wizards are happy that Pakistan has achieved a level of macro-economic stabilization, which is spectacular and unprecedented.
He has received several teaching awards, as well as the unprecedented award of being ‘the most quotable professor’ by MathSoc.
Open source software is often portrayed as a breakthrough in the free and open exchange of intellectual property, without precedent in the prevailing global capitalist mentality.
The goal to attack the spiralling cost of public services may be laudable, but the precedent is dangerous.

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Islam has changed unprecedentedly in the domain of life and culture in the tidal current of adapting to Socialism society and time, and has stridden into a rational development time.
When turnout in an election for the state government in 2008 reached an unprecedented 60%, many Indians misread this as belated Kashmiri acquiescence in Indian rule.
The re-ordination conferred there was based on the precedent of the strengthening procedure (Pali: dalhikamma) followed, for instance, when bhikkhus ordained according to the procedures of the Sri Lankan division of Theravada have been re-ordained according to those of the Burmese division of Theravada. A Summary Report of the 2007 International Congress on the Women's Role in the Sangha: Bhikshuni Vinaya and Ordination Lineages �� Part Two: Day One
That would prevent the case from setting any legal precedents on same-sex sexual harassment involving gay and bisexual women.
"Debt is at historically unprecedented levels, " according to the Office for National Statistics.
It would seem judges can't help themselves in their bid to establish a precedent in cyberspace.
The unprecedented remarks by CSIS Director Richard Fadden were broadcast late on Tuesday, a day before Chinese Premier Hu Jintao was due to arrive in Canada on a formal visit.
The pharmas have been very averse to lowering those prices in the developing world for fear that it will set a precedent.
In our judgment the conclusion reached by the judge, despite the unprecedented passage of time since 1942, was correct.
By precedent, the Senate could make such quorum calls dilatory at any time, if no substantive business had intervened since a quorum had been previously established. www): The Volokh Conspiracy
The Prime Minister's press chief returned from Washington yesterday amid unprecedented speculation he was going to resign.
But more significant, he adds, is that the royal family is being required to cement the political and symbolic unity of a United Kingdom when that unity is under unprecedented strain.
The size of this latest mimivirus is unprecedented, prompting researchers to name it a mamavirus. ��Sputnik�� Virus Can Attack Others, But Is it Alive?
He signed an agreement to borrow a 75 million euro two-year loan syndicated by 18 banks, an unprecedented number of creditors for Bulgaria.
Sadly this will set a very destructive precedent, which could place the future of our liberty in grave jeopardy.
The deadline for the unprecedented revote is 11 a.m. today. Houston Chronicle
The requisite clowning, braggadocio and hip-hop historicism are in place and well articulated, and an unprecedented, post-9/11 political pique has surfaced.
These measures are also recommended in BT Yevamot 65b, where the rabbis point out that a precedent for the practice of divorcing an infertile wife after ten years may be drawn from Genesis 16: 3, since it was only after ten years of living in the land of Canaan that Sarai accepted her infertility and surrogated her servant to bear a child on her behalf. Infertile Wife in Rabbinic Judaism.
Now, of course, the judges/justices can try to distinguish precedent, etc. but that doesn't eliminate the fact that stare decisis has some inherent value in constraining judicial decisionmaking. Balkinization
The celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of the event have been unprecedented in scope.
Quando sono ben freddi, si spalma sulla base una confettura a scelta (io preferisco quella di rosa canina perchè ha una consistenza che adoro, tipo una gelatina liquida, in più non è dolce), si appiccica la parte superiore precedentemente spolverizzata di zucchero a velo. Ovis Mollis « Baking History
Justice Ginsburg rightly described this as overbroad, and she cited Court precedent that "ambiguity concerning the ambit of criminal statutes should be resolved in favor of lenity. Conrad Black's Revenge
Legal experts said her case would not set a precedent because it was an out-of-court settlement.
We fear there may well be a precedent set for the rest of her school life.
Over the course of multiple research missions conducted in the last three months, scientists have employed and tested many techniques to better understand the extent of this unprecedented oil spill and have found fluorometric sampling to be useful to help identify the location and concentration of subsurface oil. NOAA News Releases
And it is to be hoped that the normal balance of executive and legislative authority may be wholly equal, wholly adequate to meet the unprecedented task before us.
This case could serve as a precedent for others against the tobacco companies.
He erected a new doctrine of precedent.
In 'Outlaw,' it's no different; Smits is a few years older, a bit paunchier and with some graying temples, but that only lends the character of Justice Garza an air of distinguished authority that makes you believe he can win any case with his deep knowledge of constitutional precedents and the penal code. Inside TV Blog
Unprecedented change has been the keynote of the electronic revolution.
Advances in information technology, such as the Internet, have created unprecedented opportunities for organizations to recast their relationships with constituents.
The attempt to sanction and legitimize something so obviously immoral and abhorrent is unprecedented in our history. Archive 2007-01-01
As if fulfilling the portentous predictions of some medieval soothsayer, the first year of this new century has witnessed an unprecedented catalogue of warnings of the cumulative effects of climate change.
There is a plethora of admirable precedents to this form of conservatism.
Against this background, an unprecedented number of acts of violence broke out along the cease-fire line beginning on 5 August 1965.
There were precedents in most agrarian societies for wage labor and tenantry.
This is the free grace and favour of God towards the man Christ Jesus — predestinating, designing, and taking him into actual union with the person of the Son, without respect unto, or foresight of, any precedent dignity or merit in him, 1 Pet. i. Christologia
The Seismological Society of America wrote to Italy's president expressing concern about what it called an unprecedented legal attack on science. Manslaughter trial opens against experts for Italy quake
This is as close to a logical deduction as you get in precedential reasoning, Balkinization
This branch, under ordinary precedent, simply threw the case out of court; but in addition, the decision, proceeding with what lawyers call obiter dictum, went on to declare that under the Constitution of the United States neither Congress nor a territorial legislature possessed power to prohibit slavery in Federal Territories. A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln
We continue to believe that interest rates will head higher as a desperately overheated economy fuels unprecedented borrowing demands.
In the previous post I ran through the precedents of the story, but sticking all of those ideas together higgledy-piggledy would be a mess. 2009 November « The Graveyard
The government now is looking at unprecedented public-sector layoffs and cuts in civil-service perks, steps that could reshape Greek political culture by upending decades of cozy ties between the ruling Socialist party and a core constituency. Greek Officials Scramble to Find More Cuts
What's more, new output format AVCHD lets you experience unprecedented High - Definition movie.
In this particular case the major reason for opposing an increase of a handful of dwellings was to object to a precedent being set.
Once a problem has been solved satisfactorily in the British system , that solution tends to be used again in similar situations , and becomes a precedent to govern future actions .
The National - Day celebration this year was an unprecedentedly great occasion.
This game will pull a national-TV rating that's huge by sports standards: If precedent holds it will likely outdraw most games of Major League Baseball's World Series. The NFL's Most Popular Team
The level of preparation and efficiency evidentthe Beijing Games is unprecedented and very possibly unrepeatable.
Meltdown is also designed to increase mental clarity and mood with minimal jitteriness while burning fat at an unprecedented rate.
Gale force winds which threatened floods at the weekend have blown unprecedented numbers of a small Arctic seabird on to the North sea coast.
There is a promising precedent, giving hope to AIDS patients.
A judge should know the reasons that justify statutes and precedents.
These salinity changes are unprecedented in the relatively short history of the science of oceanography.
It is a day that will long be remembered in horrifying imagery as America was attacked in an unprecedented terrorist incident. Global Voices in English » Arab World: Healing the Rifts of 9/11
In the era of consume culture and cultural globalization, the multi - culture views are respected unprecedentedly.
This century has witnessed environmental destruction on an unprecedented scale.
The real outrage is how common and banal, how unsurprising and thoroughly precedented it is. Matthew Yglesias » Gaza in Context
On 6 May 2002, the US government took the unprecedented step of repudiating its signature of the Rome Statute and began a worldwide campaign to weaken the Court and to obtain impunity for all US nationals from the jurisdiction of the Court. Think Progress » EU wants answers on secret prisons.
Viet Nam also set the precedent for the CIA to go well beyond any conscionable realm for their involvement in the murder of Diem. Spook spotlight (Jack Bog's Blog)
So, the cleanest, most ethical holier-than-thou Congress ever is now defending the unprecedented adoption of ram-down rules for a radical, multitrillion-dollar program to usurp one-seventh of the economy on the grounds of “two wrongs make it right”? Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
For the Soviet Union, the return to any nation of territory occupied during the war would create a dangerous precedent.
No one knows this more than Yale which has flourished to an unprecedented level these past 40 years as a coeducational institution. Muhtar Kent: This Century Goes to the Women
Oh and that payroll number is even fuglier since you have to figure that it will be subsequently "revised" to a less ... uh ... rosy number next month, if precedent is any indicator. Your Right Hand Thief
He is an unprecedented acting talent that deserves a look or seven, and maybe even a few awards to boot.
Seminal work on the diffraction grating was done by Joseph von Fraunhofer beginning in 1821, who demonstrated that the gratings could produce spectra of unprecedented quality.
The precedents were relatively clear: government would be exercised by a council of regency until the young king was declared ‘of age’.
A vast expanse of western Siberia is undergoing an unprecedented thaw that could dramatically increase the rate of global warming, climate scientists warned yesterday.
But the damage it could do is spurring the Gulf states into unprecedented efforts to protect their shallow, near-landlocked waters.
On another front renewal too for the Ballina Parish Council to cope with the unprecedented growth in the parish population.
Now two victims have taken the unprecedented step of suing the Vatican itself.
This created an unprecedented degree of unity across the sectarian divide.
Her leadership resulted in the unit's unprecedented zero Class C mishaps and an immaculate safety track record.
The result is a game of spot the allusion, with the final mass exodus dictated more by Chekhovian precedent than any kind of political logic.
I am also a former dist. court law clerk whose judge made a point of instructing me that other district court opinions had no precedential value. The Volokh Conspiracy » District Court Opinions Precedential Within the Same District?
The nightmare shutdown scenario, still a few weeks away, would involve Congress failing to raise the national debt ceiling and possibly an unprecedented government debt default.
And he take pains to trace Wilde's homosexuality primarily to the literary precedents he discovered in his classical studies at Oxford -- the Greek ideal of a "paederastic" love of an older, intellectual mentor and an acolyte. Wilde in the Stacks
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With the exit polls Tuesday showing an unprecedented gender difference of 17 points, Clinton stretched the gap into a gulf.
To answer your intent, as I understand it, though, I will say that "Americanism" is a combination of a number of factors - Constitutional law and intent, Historical practice and precedent, and general popular opinion. Is That Legal?: "If They Won't Indict Democrats, Fire Their Asses and Get Me People Who Will"
Since it was unique and unprecedented the coin was dismissed as a modern hoax.
This precedent, if strictly honored in 1984, would throw the legal system into chaos.
If genocide goes unpunished, it will set a precedent for tomorrow's genocide.
With the exit polls Tuesday showing an unprecedented gender difference of 17 points, Clinton stretched the gap into a gulf.
Deprived at one blow of most of his precedents, "shorn" -- as the Breach of Promise Reports puts it -- "of its usual attractions," FIBBINS's speech becomes an impotent affair. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 10, 1891
The coming change in the makeup of the English population is unprecedented.
The Star Tribune calls the total "unprecedented," noting that the three-month haul is greater than any Minnesota congressional hopeful has ever raised in an entire election cycle. Michele Bachmann Raises Record $5.4 Million In Three Months
Her Majesty had ordered Noakes and his wife Vivien to be given unprecedented access to her both at home and at work.
The answer may lie in some useful precedents going even as far back as the genesis of modern Israel.
Fearnley-Whittingstall’s occasional efforts to explain butchery, like boning a leg of lamb (encouraging his readers not to bother with a professional but to do the 'hatchet job yourself — it’s quite easy to improvise'), reveal a tolerance for chaos ( 'It’s a bit tricky to explain') that may be without precedent among people who make An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.
The committee's unprecedented trawl through the secret world of British intelligence makes devastating reading for Blair.
This case could serve as a precedent for others against the tobacco companies.
The Opposition had sent the Bill back to the Commons four times in an unprecedentedly bitter conflict.
But this level of clampdown, with every nickel being flyspecked before we can spend it, is unprecedented in my experience, the person said. Budget Rift at CFTC Pulls Plug on Alarm
He then poses an obvious question - at a time of falling crime and declining committals to prison, why was a commitment made to expand the prison system on an unprecedented scale?
Officials blamed the situation on an unprecedented rise in emergency cases.
We all have to go through the same nonsense, which seems crazy considering the precedent set at the first hearing.
The mixed economy boomed, bringing unprecedented prosperity to the middle and working classes.
This regime refers to precedent that an archipelagic country enjoys sovereignty over its archipelago and its waters, and also regulates what rights other countries have in its waters.
It sets a precedent that extends third party insurance to cover all vehicles 'propelled by mechanical power' - not just on roads. Times, Sunday Times
The enemy mad bombardment caused unprecedented death and destruction in the country.
London is prey to an obscene and unprecedented landgrab. Times, Sunday Times
The unprecedented number of casualties and the dreadful wounds caused by high-explosive shells seriously stretched the medical services. Times, Sunday Times
The amount of scientific work that occurs on site, during excavation, is unprecedented.
It is important that people support this case financially so that a precedent in defence of our rights can be established.
The global co-option of police and coroners required unprecedented resources, but so far we have been able to cover our tracks.
Parallel to the wage freeze, the government has implemented a programme of public spending cuts unprecedented in the history of the Netherlands.
All while she was unable to violate the yoke of the unprecedented use of the arcane "States Secrets Privilege", invoked by the DoJ in such a draconian fashion that she is still "gagged" from disclosing even innocuous personal details such as her date of birth. Brad Friedman: EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Ellsberg Says Sibel Edmonds Case 'Far More Explosive Than Pentagon Papers'
In a risky fly-by maneuver, the Deep Space 1 spacecraft successfully navigated past a comet, giving researchers an unprecedented view inside the glowing core of icy dust and gas.
Private and public wealth acquired from trade gave the citizens of Miletus an unprecedented amount of leisure.
To this can be added the fact that aikido developed and spread in Japan during an era of peace that later blossomed into a time of unprecedented economic prosperity.
The truth is that the great economic boom provided employment - at home and for emigrants abroad-on a quite unprecedented scale.
All of the Axial Age faiths began in principled and visceral recoil from the unprecedented violence of their time. The Great Transformation: Summary and book reviews of The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong.
As a result, millions of workers have suffered an unprecedented reversal in their social position.
The judge based his decision on precedents set during the Middle Ages.
“Unprecedented mechanism of biochemistry” could be important step in curing disease. Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine » Blog Archive » BIG NEWS ABOUT ALZHEIMER’S OUT OF UT SOUTHWESTERN
Last night Buckingham Palace sources were forced to make an unprecedented denial that this trip would be the couple's last together.
Tutti i precedenti corti di Ray Tintori e Benh Zeitlin vi sono inclusi. No Fat Clips!!! : BENH ZEITLIN – Glory At Sea
In a basic sense, the new movement followed his precedent in unmasking the false poses and images of its era in order to refocus attention on the real racial issues facing America.
The event was an unprecedented one: Champagne's grand cru villages remained at twelve for almost forty years.
What precedent is there for such servile bootlicking?
Bach had an unparalleled talent for assimilating disparate influences into an architecturally harmonious whole at a time when an unprecedented number of disparate influences — Renaissance polyphony, Lutheran chorale, Italian monody, French dance music, you name it — was ripe for assimilation. Fame, it's not your brain, it's just the flame that burns your change
The Penny Press and the tabloids used the same formulas to achieve unprecedented commercial success.
Marcy, who is a member of the Kepler science team, said the orbiting telescope will survey thousands of stars to determine with unprecedented precision how many are circled by exoplanets, and especially by Earth-size exoplanets that might be in habitable zones. Scientists estimate tens of billions of Earth-size planets in Milky Way
Each dish is an unprecedented sensation, and the idea of ever again considering eating anything I'd previously thought of as food quickly becomes absurd.
Precedent here refers to judicial precedent, derived from cases decided within the hierarchy of the court structure.
Arguably they are too late, since the unprecedented military operation staged to rescue her was itself a made for-TV movie directed by the Pentagon.
With an unprecedented 93 % majority, a mandate was drafted and signed.
In August of the same year he organized an unprecedented summer school in Vienna.
None of these offers an auspicious precedent or any clear parallel for introducing a flat tax to a mature economy.
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We put together an unprecedented ground operation, but it was matched by the zealots on the right.
The situation is unprecedented in modern times.
The trouble is, unfair as it may seem, a sizeable part of judgment is based on precedent - heavyweight disapproval is saved for those who ‘aren't normally like that’.
American courts in the colonial period imported many features of the English legal system, including the doctrine of precedent.
There is, actually, sorne precedent for this prediction.
There is little direct precedent for this model in Asia, where only monastics engage in serious meditation, and its long-range future remains an open question.
In what seemed like an unprecedented invasion, the ladybugs, or lady beetles, as they are also known, appeared everywhere, swarming around buildings and trees.
The doctrine of precedent is bound up with the need for a reliable system of law reporting.
When her own store had sold out of a special pair of shoes Trisha wanted to buy, Rachel made an unprecedented visit to the Dolcis branch in Bury and bought the shoes herself.
"We must ensure that we do not let this unprecedented moment in time go unutilized for the dream of a strong, robust and prosperous India", affirmed the President.
People claimed that the precedent set out by the sleeper hit in 1998 was finally superseded.
This uncertainty was reflected in unprecedented levels of argument within the government, conducted in the full glare of public attention.
He also charged that the gag order was an unprecedented attempt to deny his constitutional rights.
In 1987 the Socialists took the unprecedented step of appointing a civilian to command the force.
The pure and fine essential qualities of the voices, the dizzying harmonies, the fugal calls and responses, the strange relief of the unisons, and above all the free, natural mien of the singers, proudly aware that they were producing something beautiful that could not be produced more beautifully, conscious of unchallenged supremacy, -- all this enfevered him to an unprecedented and self-astonished enthusiasm. Clayhanger
A precedent quoted to justify them in acquitting Jeremiah. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
The ex-Devi is implanted with an unprecedented five AIs for one final run, but the Krishna cops close in and she must act fast. REVIEW: Cyberabad Days by Ian McDonald
The rapid development of IT brings unprecedented challenge to library management. It is inevitable that traditional document mamagement is changed into knowledge information mamagement.
Last night Buckingham Palace sources were forced to make an unprecedented denial that this trip would be the couple's last together.
In 1981 conflict over pay settlements led to an unprecedented civil service strike.
In the same way that the Supreme Court benefits from the give-and-take of circuit splits, circuit courts are better able to appreciate the need for them to issue a precedential opinion when the district courts are in open disagreement. The Volokh Conspiracy » District Court Opinions Precedential Within the Same District?
This century has witnessed environmental destruction on an unprecedented scale.
The National Theatre of Scotland is a scheme without precedent, an organisation that will be neither a building nor a company but an amorphous commissioning body.
Unions say it puts the brakes on a 20-year trend towards casual labour, but employer groups are calling it a disappointing and costly precedent.
The change is also so unprecedented that it necessitates a genuine leap of faith.
Walpole's more aristocratically-detached contemplation of Gothic paraphernalia is precisely what gave rise to the unprecedented amount of Gothic romances in the Haunted Britain in the 1970s
The Zone covers 300 acres which, for the next twelve years, will offer unprecedented benefits for industrialists and investors.
The 1991 World Cup generated unprecedented interest in rugby union and planted the sport firmly in the top league of spectator sports.
But it may be that an unprecedented demand and need for underlay action may call for temporary departure from that normal balance of public procedure.
By the time of the 2000 election, the concentration of wealth in the hands of an oligarchic elite had reached unprecedented proportions.
With unprecedented frankness, they speak of the government's contempt for the judiciary.
What a pleasing precedent any unlikely victory would set!
Each procedural pigeon-hole contains its own rules of substantive law, and it is with great caution that we may argue from what is found in one to what will probably be found in another; each has its own precedents.
The unprecedented economic boom has overtaken the entire infrastructure implemented by the city planners.
The public has had the pleasure of an unprecedented and still unfolding expose on the inner workings of a public service operating in a culture of fear.
Recent advances in genetics such as the identification of the responsible genes for several forms of Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY), now referred to as monogenic diabetes, have established precedents linking specific drug therapies to defined subtypes of diabetes patients," said Robert Smith, MD, of Brown University in Providence, R.I. and co-author of the statement. Newswise: Latest News
Norman ducal revenues were insufficient to meet even the cost of garrisoning its defences and so, to fund Richard's seemingly never-ending wars against Philip, England was subjected to unprecedented levels of financial exaction.
If a term is a condition precedent to liability, any breach defeats liability but does not lead to a repudiation of the whole contract.
The jet stream remained locked in place for weeks, bringing an unprecedented two-month heat wave to Russia and contributing to devastating floods in Pakistan at the end of July, " it said.
Hastings said he would approve the trip unless the defense attorneys could cite legal precedents supporting their argument.
This is very much a global liquidity crisis in the works, with unprecedented leveraged speculation at the root of the unfolding financial debacle.
The ceremony was disrupted by unprecedented heckling and slogan-chanting.
The unprecedented coziness that once existed between the Justice Department and the White House now remains solely in the person of Gonzales.
Crime has increased on an unprecedented scale.
Such policies would require unprecedented cooperation between nations.
And I think one of our common themes is the eruption of an unprecedented violence in the heart of the air-conditioned, sterile world of America.
Today, the environmental catastrophes of history are repeated almost everywhere on the planet, on an unprecedented scale.
This vast cultivation and re-design of the body provides an unprecedented laboratory for exploring the limits of human possibility.
_condition precedent_; -- but the meeting disregard it -- reject the condition, and gravely resolve to accept _a resignation_, which had not yet been tendered to them. A Review and Exposition, of the Falsehoods and Misrepresentations, of a Pamphlet Addressed to the Republicans of the County of Saratoga, Signed, "A Citizen"
Today, as media penetrate into the public daily life in unprecedented breadth and depth, no non-profit institution can afford to neglect the importance of good public relations.
Of course we have just begun the litany from the Repubs on why this woman should not be seated as it was also a trying time for her immediate precedent. Obama aide defends Kagan over DADT, military recruiting
The independent counsel's unprecedented challenge to the presidency evoked the most feeble and cowardly response from these quarters.
There is no precedent for a disaster of this scale.
In November Roosevelt conveniently won re-election to an unprecedented third presidential term, while pledging that the USA would not go to war.
Vice-president Richard Cheney, four months prior to the 911 attacks, was granted complete command and control of the entire air defense system in the United States, an unprecedented deligation of presidential authority in US history. The mission to crack the 911 case gains traction
The trend is likely to place unprecedented demands on the health care system, principally for nursing and custodial care.
Unprecedented in a translucence plastic body provides various types of color to provide a wide variety of choices to rider.
No sooner had the flow of liquor from Rum Row in the Northeast been stanched than it began to gush in unprecedented quantities through the sluiceway that was Detroit, where an overmatched prosecutor said, “The greatest obstacle to the attainment of Prohibition is the Constitution of the United States, the instrument that decreed its birth.” LAST CALL
The free market program implemented by successive governments has widened social inequality to an unprecedented degree.
The ceremony was disrupted by unprecedented heckling and slogan-chanting.
The national crisis and social crisis were unprecedentedly grave.
Volunteering a wager was unprecedented, therefore highly suspicious.
For a company of this size, it was a virtually unprecedented single day drop.

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