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.