How To Use Recede 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.
There is a plethora of admirable precedents to this form of conservatism.
He has received several teaching awards, as well as the unprecedented award of being ‘the most quotable professor’ by MathSoc.
The volume of trade has receded.

Though the threat of some biohazards receded for workers in health-care and other human services, the threat of others, such as hepatitis B virus, grew.
Carson's voice on the phone was preceded by that of a lawyer who asked if I would mind listening to Johnny while he spoke his piece, which sounds like even daffier a concept now than it did then. Nights with Johnny Carson: As long as it's been, we still long for them
Furthermore, functional and structural divergence might, in some cases, precede rather than follow gene duplication.
Additionally, a polyclonal intracerebral inflammatory response may precede the proliferation of monoclonal malignant lymphoid cells.
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.
Negotiations will be preceded by what the leaders called a "scoping exercise" to ensure that both side share the same goals and level of ambition for the negotiations. The Seattle Times
The goal to attack the spiralling cost of public services may be laudable, but the precedent is dangerous.
Every now and then a graceful movement of his left arm through the air preceded his entry into the music, as though he were offering a cue to an imaginary force.
Restlessness, anxiety , confusion, and twitching may also precede convulsions.
They noted that a broadening of the apex precedes doming, although this observation was not quantified.
Tugela Ferry's bug, however, takes on average an unprecedented 25 days after diagnosis to kill...
A focus on texts and their position in all kinds of Italian secular vocal music of the time leads to a rather wordy book not very easy to follow in its layout, especially when a music example precedes its reference.
Obama has hardly any political experience prior to his precedency. McCain to vote against Sotomayor
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.
_They_ were compelled to regard exploitage as a cruel but eternally unavoidable condition of the progress of civilisation; for when they lived it was and it always had been a necessity of civilisation, and they could not justly be expected to anticipate such a fundamental revolution in the conditions of human existence as must necessarily precede the passage from exploitage to economic equity. Freeland A Social Anticipation
The commitment to perform sometime precede the preparation of the Charter Party and whatever is may be that we have agreed verbally shall become a part of our gentlemen's agreement.
There are various classes of Secular Abbots; some have both jurisdiction and the right to use the pontifical insignia; others have only the abbatical dignity without either jurisdiction or the right to pontificalia; while yet another class holds in certain cathedral churches the first dignity and the privilege of precedence in choir and in assemblies, by reason of some suppressed or destroyed conventual church now become the cathedral. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
Moroni queried, scowling with disappointment, feeling his excitement recede. FINAL RESORT
Two circulars of our state council about bankruptcy penetrate the precedency of legal effect, come into conflict with several upper laws, and violate the fair compensable principle of bankrupt system.
This preceded the national campaign in the United Kingdom, which began in November 1991.
Getting things done properly took precedence over getting them done quickly.
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.
Book “on the plan recommended by Mr. Locke,” was published in 1839, which had been already preceded by “a selection from the Metamorphoses of Ovid, adapted to the Hamiltonian system, by a literal and interlineal translation,” published by James Hamilton, the author of the Hamiltonian system. The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations
Sometimes the country has to take precedence over a do-nothing imposter and pretender to the throne.
In this case, air stripping precedes a conventional biological process, while carbon adsorption is used as a final polishing step.
His speech was preceded by one from the Archbishop of Canterbury. Times, Sunday Times
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.
With the tinted lenses blocking out the worst of the bright sunlight, her headache receded to its previous dull ache.
A passion for Chinese motifs - chinoiserie - preceded and paved the way.
All this, it will be noticed, is a case of cell-multiplication, which differs from that which takes place in the unicellular organisms only in its being _invariably_ preceded (as far as we know) by karyokinesis, and in the resulting cells being all confined within a common envelope, and so in not being free to separate. Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions
Today the Speaker stands in the order of social precedence immediately after the peerage, ranking higher than any other commoner.
She stood perfectly still, listening to his footsteps recede down the hall.
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
National defense must take precedence over all other questions.
While the wealthy sportsman was the original English motorist, it was not until Edward VII took up motoring (with relish) that the motorcar began to gain precedence over the horse and carriage with the Marlborough House Set. The Motorcar | Edwardian Promenade
The Prime Minister's press chief returned from Washington yesterday amid unprecedented speculation he was going to resign.
The immense man, brandishing his recovered certificates, plunged forward to encounter them, shouting in Arabic, hustled them back, kicked them, struck at the camels with a stick till those in front receded upon those behind and the street was blocked by struggling beasts and resounded with roaring snarls, the thud of wooden bales clashing together, and the desperate protests of the camel-drivers, one of whom was sent rolling into a noisome dust heap with his turban torn from his head. The Garden of Allah
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.
When I reached the banks of the great estuary, which are here very bare and exposed, the waters had receded from the large and level space of sand, through which a stream, now feeble and fordable, found its way to the ocean. Redgauntlet
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.
After the destruction and ruin of the war years, and the climate of nationalism which preceded them, many hoped for a new model of political co-operation in Europe.
My consolation is that the solstice will occur soon and the darkness recede in what I call the optimistic months of the year, though autumn has its moments. The Storm's Mixed Metaphors
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
Her name labeled her: Zola, meaning outcast, forever preceded her birth name, Luz. Distant Shores
The notion that theories take precedence over facts is now a truism of a postmodern, post-fact, true-spin/values world. Are We Finally Waking Up...or Merely Trading One Set of Illusions for Another?
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
These signs may precede circulatory collapse and death.
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
Bone remodeling, which repairs damaged bone, is a sequential process in which bone resorption precedes bone formation.
Should property rights be given precedence over human rights or society's need to protect nature?
Does the President have an opinion on which statute takes precedence here in relation to the postmarking of the ballots? Press Briefing By Jake Siewert
Legal experts said her case would not set a precedent because it was an out-of-court settlement.
Over 70 genealogical charts precede the alphabetical listing of biographees.
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
The sound resembles a war cry and always precedes their appearance.
I'm yet to discover a way to convert a top to a body outfit/part, which would address the above problem partially, despite a few token efforts at file renaming (the .bmps exported are preceded with top~ or body~) and hex editing (the .package file refers to the file names it expects to find for the .bmps). Galactic North
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.
He would have ‘seen’ the very spatiality of the visible, the real which precedes all reality, all forms, all truth of particular sensations or constructed idealities.
This case could serve as a precedent for others against the tobacco companies.
He erected a new doctrine of precedent.
Any country that doesn't explore is going to ultimately recede was the previous entry in this blog. Apollo 11 Anniversary Thoughts - NASA Watch
The first two orchestral works (preceded only by juvenilia and a graduation passacaglia for piano) are remarkable for their assurance.
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.
All of the rites which are normally done when a prayer is said at Mass are omitted: the prayer is not preceded by either of the two formulae that normally precede (“Dominus vobiscum - Oremus” or “Oremus - Flectamus genua - Levate”), the priest does not open his hands, the prayer is not said standing at the altar, but in front of it. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 4.1 - Mass of Presanctified, Good Friday, Mass of the Catechumens and the Solemn Prayers
The attempt to sanction and legitimize something so obviously immoral and abhorrent is unprecedented in our history. Archive 2007-01-01
Even after the surface flood water has receded, the soil may remain saturated for some time.
The captain then signs the bills of lading and precedes his signature with a statement that shipment is subject to charter party conditions.
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.
Just because one thing precedes another, it does not mean that one causes the other. Times, Sunday Times
Everything was presented with great panache and evening meals were preceded by complimentary canapes and appetisers.
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
This 'bloody baboonery', as the communists called the highly publicized police performance, was preceded by inspired press reports of evidence - more sensational than the notorious Zinoviev letter, - of a revolutionary plot directed from Moscow to prepare the way for the black republic. Class & Colour in South Africa - Chapter 18
I assume my reputation for arrogant presumption precedes me, so I'll be anything but brief.
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
The opera was preceded by a short overture.
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
Therefore if Cross-rail precedes electrification, then diesel units would be used for cross-city services which would easily negotiate the gradients and angles.
The film opens with the denouement, the murder-suicide, and then recounts the events that preceded it.
We continue to believe that interest rates will head higher as a desperately overheated economy fuels unprecedented borrowing demands.
Antichrist, the summing up and concentration of all the world evil that preceded, is the eighth, but yet one of the seven (Re 17: 11). crowns -- Greek, "diadems." name of blasphemy -- So C, Coptic, and Andreas. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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 president of Francisco Marroquin University drove me and a half dozen other American reporters to his campus in an armored vehicle preceded by a sapper squad, checking for potential land mines in its path. Murray Fromson: A Footnote to History
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.
As the tide receded we were able to look for shells.
My hair thinned at the crown and my formerly low hairline on my forehead began to dramatically recede. The Sun
That flat stomach melts into soft library flab as library time takes precedence over exercise.
An active origin is suggested because volcanism and uplift appear to have preceded rifting, an active plume passing over a large area.
In this particular case the major reason for opposing an increase of a handful of dwellings was to object to a precedent being set.
These particular punishments, the lectures that preceded them and the screams they provoked, were recorded on a giant reel-to-reel tape recorder that stood in the living-room.
Classifying soil according to its productive capacity has some precedence in most parts of East Africa where property rates are employed.
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.
The third box begins with a new image or detail that resembles a lead and precedes the bulk of the narrative.
Meltdown is also designed to increase mental clarity and mood with minimal jitteriness while burning fat at an unprecedented rate.
Agricultural development simply must precede economic development.
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.
He can and must use the prelatial dress, as in the Roman Curia, to wit: rochet over the purple soutane with purple mantelletta, in his attendance in the cathedral, where he has precedence over all other canons and dignitaries, as to choir stall and functions. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
His speech was preceded by one from the Archbishop of Canterbury. Times, Sunday Times
The case of Stargate: Universe discussed how the new series would differ from the two others that preceded it. 28 « July « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy
They precede adjectives: many clever people, not clever many people; my poor friend, not poor my friend.
President Nelson Mandela last night, Sunday, 25 February 1996, consulted Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi telephonically on the date and venue of the meeting with KwaZulu-Natal amakhosi, which is to precede the planned imbizo. ANC Daily News Briefing
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
Test team, but an exciting climax to the story ought not to overshadow some of the less satisfactory elements of the chapters that have preceded it. Times, Sunday Times
When the sea ice receded from the coast of Nunivak Island in Alaska, it left 11 muskoxen trapped on a small islet offshore, doomed to die of starvation or thirst.
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.
Each text is preceded by a complete phonemic inventory of the language and a page or so of linguistic description; each line of the text is given first in a broader transcription, then in a word-by-word phonemic transcription that separates and translates each morpheme, then a complete translation is given more literal than the one in the body of the book. Languagehat.com: NARTS FOR CHRISTMAS.
Just as thought should precede action, reflection should follow it, on the Organizational as well as the personal level.
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.
The screenings were preceded by traditional hula dancing and slack-key guitar music.
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)
Normally the whole "inner turmoil" aspect of John Lennon takes John Lennon facial-expression precedence over happiness. NOGOODFORME.COM
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.
The entire manifesto is here, but seriously, this is not worth the crazy shenanigans that preceded it. The Open Cloud Manifesto Is Nothing But a Vapor Tiger
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.
His main work involved applying philosophy to mathematics, the philosophy taking precedence over rigorous mathematical proofs.
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.
Lunch will be preceded by a short speech from the chairman.
This created an unprecedented degree of unity across the sectarian divide.
Evidently, as the water slowly receded in the city, the museum's ground floor took on water from hydrostatic pressure through cracks in the concrete slab.
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?
As a Christian I am well aware that pride and hubris precede a fall.
The painful memories gradually receded in her mind.
Diagnosis may not be obvious if pelvic involvement precedes active bowel disease, or if drainage is clear or mucoid.
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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It was unable to insert a clause in the Imperial Abolition Act allowing nonconformist ministers to solemnize marriages, as it was custom for colonial laws to follow rather than precede those in the metropolitan society.
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"
We reached the open sea and the coast receded into the distance.
Since it was unique and unprecedented the coin was dismissed as a modern hoax.
Because, honestly, the real world we live in and which has preceded us historically (and prehistorically as far as that goes) is far more complex than what we can get across on the page or "invent. "An Accurate Understanding": Talking About Social Structures in Worldbuilding
This precedent, if strictly honored in 1984, would throw the legal system into chaos.
On another occasion, an enterprising soundman decided to precede every winning entry with a musical fanfare, which delayed the proceedings so much that most of the front row fell asleep.
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.
Earlier forerunners rely entirely on intransitive or quasi-transitive verbs, with the object preceded by a preposition.
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.
Marquis Montagu may have used, he certainly did use the Gryphon, issuant out of a ducal coronet, as this appears alone for his crest, on his garter plate, as a crest for Montagu, he having given the arms of that family precedence over his paternal coat of Nevile; the king - maker, likewise, upon his seal, gives the precedence to Montagu and The Last of the Barons — Volume 12
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.
On the other hand, brightly colored variegated ribbon grass planted behind catmint backlights the catmint and makes its flowers recede.
In its monthly reports, for instance, it has dropped its insistence that the threat of deflation has receded.
The committee's unprecedented trawl through the secret world of British intelligence makes devastating reading for Blair.
She preceded her speech with a vote of thanks to the committee.
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
Within a few months of his swearing the oath that he was to break in so many ways, the President receded from both these pledges.
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.
Agricultural development simply must precede economic development.
It sets a precedent that extends third party insurance to cover all vehicles 'propelled by mechanical power' - not just on roads. Times, Sunday Times

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