Antonym: following. Similar words: unprecedented, precede, antecedent, recede, secede, recent, recently, president. Meaning: ['presɪdənt] n. 1. an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time 2. (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions 3. a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws 4. a subject mentioned earlier (preceding in time). adj. preceding in time, order, or significance.
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61. The outcome will set a precedent with far-reaching implications for the whole restitution process.
62. The final point, not covered by either precedent, relates to cancellation at will for convenience.
63. There seems to be a coldness at the heart of much hard-left philosophy, where theory takes precedent over practical help.
63. Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and make good sentences.
64. The guiding principles then of etymology and precedent would not be acceptable today.
65. Davis' original move to Los Angeles established the judicial precedent that a team can move without approval from other owners.
66. So-called aberrant behavior, in particular lesbian and homosexual behavior, was shown to have a natural precedent and a genetic basis.
67. Although not intransigent, Wash was clearly uneasy about the specific link with Bedfordshire as the precedent to establish a principle.
68. Certain principles have never yet been contested in any court of law so that precedent for their consideration has never been laid down.
69. This precedent, if strictly honored in 1984, would throw the legal system into chaos.
70. Preston says the tribe is looking at a precedent set in a similar incident litigated and settled out of court.
71. They deny their own law, denying my right, and the precedent is there to stead them in the next encroachment.
72. In other areas, precedent established some years ago in the light of circumstances then may be disputable in relation to the present day.
73. If upheld in appellate court the case could form an important precedent in family law.
74. Those who do this follow a precedent set by all great composers.
75. During the examination, PTO should indicate the precedent registration.
76. This is a classical marine judicial precedent.
77. It is a condition precedent to every right action.
78. But the pervasiveness of the online media had convinced the trial judge to overlook nearly 70 years of precedent outlawing similar prior restraints.
79. For recent years, American court has explained and developed the principle of"minimum contact" in its judicial precedent. It sets the initial rules and standards for network's jurisdiction.
80. The doctrine of precedent has an important status in the common law system.
81. On judicial aspects, we should construct the civil code judicial precedent institution.
82. The filter-through of stimulus cash to the pachinko parlours has historical precedent.
83. If a precedent of the latter type is in fact unpersuasive , the judge is free to disregard it.
84. Then, on the foundation of SWOT strategic analysis, the paper demonstrates four policies including human resource construction, precedent field, capital input and resource scheme.
85. From a more macro standpoint, if China is indeed bogarting its supply of rare earths to strong-arm Japan into making political concessions, it could be setting a dangerous precedent.
86. Yet its real precedent is Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, a monument to air travel conceived by Albert Speer in the 1930s as a gateway to a new Europe.
87. The precedent is the 20% shareholding that Lower Saxony still holds in Volkswagen.
88. This provides precedent for facies - controlled modeling of complex block reservoirs of fluvial facies.
89. In foiling the Republican scheme, Mr Reid, by a simple majority vote, established a precedent that will make it harder to attempt such ruses in the future.
90. Voters demanded that the candidates keep the pledges made as a condition precedent to election.
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