Sentence example with the word 'precedent'

precedent

action, avant-garde, consideration, doom, foregoing, groundbreaker, leader, pathfinder, prior, scout, type specimen

Definition adj. preceding in time

Last update: June 11, 2015


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A decission without precedent is useless.   [noun]

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Remember this incident as a precedent.   [noun]

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It [the expulsion of inspectors] sets a dangerous precedent fore the integrity of the non-proliferation regime.   [noun]

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The campaign group claimed the development would desecrate the area and create an unwelcome precedent for other national parks.   [noun]

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Wolowski, "is a precedent in favor of this right."   [noun]

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Let us hope that this legislative precedent will not be fruitless for the cause of equality.   [noun]

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But it was in the olden time, nor can we hold it a precedent fitting for this occasion.   [noun]

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It would be a bad precedent and unworthy of the spirit of the age.   [Please select]

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Our first assassination, there was no precedent for comparison.   [Please select]

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"There is no precedent for one in office to withhold his hand from profit and backsheesh."   [Please select]

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His ambition and pride and avarice were gratified beyond precedent in English history.   [Please select]

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