precedent
Example Sentences
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Michael Desmond, then the top IRS lawyer, said officials decided to write those rules under a since-overturned Supreme Court precedent that gave agencies more flexibility.
Olympic bosses, who never met an issue they couldn’t bungle, fretted about precedent.
They pointed to features like Familiar Faces and Community Requests, which allow voluntary sharing with police, as already troubling precedents.
From Salon
There is precedent for prime ministers firing senior civil servants who are not seen as being on board with their programme.
From BBC
The data center would require the laying of a new undersea cable to supply potential customers, something that has no precedent in Greenland, said Christian Keldsen, managing director of the Greenland Business Association.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
