Sample Sentences forprecedent (editor-reviewed)
precedent as in: sets a precedent
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If the looters are not punished, it will set a precedent that others can loot with impunity.precedent = an example from a prior time that justifies the belief
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Legal precedent set by the Supreme Court should be followed by all lower courts.precedent = a decision made at a prior time
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There was no precedent for this: my father had never visited my room before. (source)precedent = example from a prior time
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Every American airman knew about Nanking, and since then, Japan had only reinforced the precedent. (source)
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Eric stopped talking and looked at the judge, perhaps considering an objection for such an open display of partiality, but there seemed no legal precedent. (source)precedent = an example from a prior time that justifies the belief
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If he set a precedent of letting einherjar return to the world, wouldn't others want to go too?† (source)
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The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor.† (source)
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Lei and Yang both had deep technical backgrounds, and wouldn't have been easily fooled, but the experiment described by Ye did have real precedents in Western solar research.† (source)
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This was absolutely un-precedented in the Jewish community at that time.† (source)
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In the first place, there was no precedent to show us how to behave or what to feel.† (source)
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There is anticipation in the air but it is not the expectant midsummer hum of a shirt sleeve crowd, a sandlot game, with coherent precedents, a history of secure response.† (source)
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The comeback, if successful, would be un-precedented.† (source)
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There is precedent for this: Liet serves two masters.† (source)
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Drew and I have spent the past three hours at his dining room table with dueling laptops, pulling up research and precedents for the most boring argument ever on term limits.† (source)
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Regrettably, the attack in Toulouse was not without precedent or ample warning.† (source)
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The lawyers can look up their precedents, they can hang you because they hung some poor devil in 1866.† (source)
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