"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
1. ample precedent = dostateczny precedens ample precedent
2. good precedent = dobry precedens good precedent
3. biblical precedent = biblijny precedens biblical precedent
4. closest precedent = najbardziej zbliżony precedens closest precedent
  • 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.
5. cultural precedent = kulturowy precedens cultural precedent
7. favorable precedent = przychylny precedens favorable precedent
(6) clear, direct, positive
Kolokacji: 3
(10) unfortunate, ominous, damaging
Kolokacji: 3
(11) international, national
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + precedent
Kolokacji: 11
without precedent • of precedent • to precedent • with precedent • on precedent • ...

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