"precedent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- 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.
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