"precedent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

precedent sustantivo

sustantivo + precedent
Kolokacji: 4
court precedent • condition precedent • abortion precedent • Senate precedent
precedent + verbo
Kolokacji: 8
precedent exists • precedent suggests • precedent establishes • precedent sets • precedent applies • ...
verbo + precedent
Kolokacji: 10
set a precedent • establish a precedent • cite precedents • take precedent • create a precedent • ...
adjetivo + precedent
Kolokacji: 50
legal precedent • dangerous precedent • historical precedent • bad precedent • important precedent • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 11
(6) clear, direct, positive
Kolokacji: 3
(10) unfortunate, ominous, damaging
Kolokacji: 3
1. unfortunate precedent = precedens nieszczęśnika unfortunate precedent
2. ominous precedent = złowieszczy precedens ominous precedent
  • With that infamous incident providing such an ominous precedent, Van Halen fans are probably ecstatic that this particular appearance didn't pan out.
  • The problems associated with the common contraceptive pill, brought to light decades after its introduction, might seem to serve as an ominous precedent.
  • General Pace cited an ominous precedent, the failed relief mission to Somalia, which included the deaths of 18 troops in a 1993 firefight in Mogadishu.
  • This was an ominous precedent for free-expression issues, but the telco's crushing of a radical-fringe magazine passed without serious challenge at the time.
  • It establishes an ominous precedent for Venezuela, the Philippines and more than 30 other debtor nations.
  • This is regarded as an ominous precedent: the first prosecution of an Internet service in the West for providing access to material it did not produce.
  • It created an ominous precedent in international relations.
  • This had never happened before; it was an ominous precedent for the museum.
  • Mr. Bush apparently forgot that Van Buren's road was rather rocky and offers an ominous precedent.
  • Beneath these innocuous-sounding phrases lies an ominous precedent - the Senate manipulating Federal funds to promote an official interpretation of American history.
3. damaging precedent = szkodząc precedensowi damaging precedent
(11) international, national
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + precedent
Kolokacji: 11
without precedent • of precedent • to precedent • with precedent • on precedent • ...

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