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What would they have thought about 1868 for a precedent?

He set the precedent for what I was to become.

The precedent has been set by the action against Iraq.

What's more, they may even set a precedent for a few Americans.

And I set the precedent a little over a month ago.

The precedent has gone too far already and should never have been set in the first place.

"This is something without precedent in the history of the country."

The Court's action today did not set a legal precedent.

There was no precedent to tell him what to do.

A precedent is something that another court has done in the past.

As with so much else he did, there was no precedent.

For that reason, the project is not likely to set a precedent.

There does not seem to be any precedent for me.

This was a precedent for the matter on hand now.

At the very least, it would set a bad precedent.

Perhaps the only precedent for today's action took place late in the cold war.

I do not know whether a precedent has been set, here in this House.

There's past precedent of a team having to play on short rest, too.

But the first period set no precedent for what would happen in the second.

It was an experience so new as to have no precedent at all.

Officials said it would set a precedent for the rest of the city.

Since the court decision in 1981, it has been used many times as an important precedent.

Now there is no precedent, at least in a legal sense.

But none knew of a precedent by which to test the case.

I hope that this will set a precedent for other areas.