"precedent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The closest precedent might be the way Jackie Robinson's Dodgers became black America's team.
- The two judges who in effect weakened the prosecutors' hand, looking for the closest legal precedent, found a parallel in American support of the Nicaraguan contras.
- The closest precedent for such an event occurred on January 1 of the same year when warplanes soared into the sky over waking Caracas.
- The closest precedent is the resignation of Yitzhak Rabin as Prime Minister in 1977 after it was revealed that his wife held illegal bank accounts in Washington.
- The closest precedent for the effort may be the transitional United Nations role in guiding Namibia toward independence in 1990.
- Compositionally, Raphael's Transfiguration is the closest precedent.
- In fact, conservative attacks on the "extremist" and "radical" Justice Brandeis are this century's closest precedent for the attacks on Judge Bork today.
- The closest Continental precedents for William's work are at Reims and Laon.
- His closest precedent is Cindy Sherman, but Sherman is reliably disturbing.
- The closest precedent to this case was more serious, since it involved not only a traffic offence but also the MEP fleeing the scene.
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