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Definition of the day : « precedent »
- noun authoritative example
- It had the authority of precedent in uncounted graduate classes.
- Extract from : « A Breath of Prairie and other stories » by Will Lillibridge
- When you start thinking about it, I suppose we set some kind of precedent here.
- Extract from : « Arm of the Law » by Harry Harrison
- By all the rules of precedent and South Harniss business the other should have been at the store.
- Extract from : « Mary-'Gusta » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- But let us bear in mind that Alexander did not lack a precedent for this particular act.
- Extract from : « The Life of Cesare Borgia » by Raphael Sabatini
- No doubt I should present a precedent in undertaking to look after his in like circumstances.
- Extract from : « The Memorabilia » by Xenophon
- No precedent, no English statute, could stand against the Constitution.
- Extract from : « The Siege of Boston » by Allen French
- Some of us want to help you, but the majority want a precedent back of them.
- Extract from : « A Woman for Mayor » by Helen M. Winslow
- British liberty was once more "to broaden down from precedent to precedent."
- Extract from : « Charles Carleton Coffin » by William Elliot Griffis, D. D.
- In Ohio, also, there was an ominous spirit of resistance to the force of precedent.
- Extract from : « Union and Democracy » by Allen Johnson
- Even as it is, we went a little further than precedent allows.
- Extract from : « Project Mastodon » by Clifford Donald Simak