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Example sentences for: precedent

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Lawyers will understand that the author is inveighing against precedent only as a false pretense for fake precision, but an innocent layman straying into these pages might well take it from the broad-gauged blasts that the whole doctrine of precedent is a grand illusion, a sort of pseudo-science like astrology, in which lawyers and judges count the angels dancing on the point of a needle:
For now we have to set the precedent that presidents of the United States should so behave themselves as to merit the confidence of the world.
The precedent had been set with the 1968 Supreme Court decision Green vs.
And resignation would set the horrific precedent that the media and the opposition can drum a president out of office if they shout enough.
The precedent exists at a primary research level for adopting remedication as an outcome.