"precedent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Each movement is independent from precedent and subsequent one, in varying context.
- In a departure from precedent, the Budget 2012 will be delivered to the parliament over two days instead of one.
- The bards' approach to the official duties of whatever the situation might have been was very traditional and drawn from precedent.
- He insisted on casting his vote, despite the departure from precedent being pointed out to him.
- We did not think, judging from precedent, that it would pursue us far even at worst.
- As I said just now, the circumstances are unusual and justify a de-parture from precedent.
- The American right of petition is derived from British precedent.
- The decision is a retreat from precedent and the principles of fairness.
- It is a strange argument, far removed from precedent and reason.
- They know no other influence than corruption and reckon all their probabilities from precedent.
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