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Example sentences for: precedent

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According to Scalia, the problem begins in law school, where tomorrow's judges digest a steady diet of fusty 19 th -century English appellate decisions, and taste--for the first time--the joys of reasoning by analogy and precedent.
The action sets a dangerous precedent by attacking a sovereign state for suppressing an ethnic minority with secessionist aspirations.
The only real precedent is the 1940s competition of the crooners; in 1944, Frank Sinatra depicted his competition by parodying "Sunday, Monday, or Always" as "Dick Todd, Dick Haymes, and Como."
It went on: "Memories of Pinochet's mass killings and tortures, by contrast, are all too fresh, and the precedent of his arrest has international ramifications."
There is a precedent to the Che cult.