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A precedent embalms a principle.
Precedent goes in support of justice.
Stability means respecting precedents.
No crime has been without a precedent.
Everything I write has a precedent in truth.
I always look for judges who respect precedent.
I would rather create a precedent than find one.
The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.
Don’t let the urgent take precedent over the important.
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.
Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? A Word from the Psalmist.
Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.
This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent.
Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.
The first few touches of the game, that's kind of like setting the precedent for me.
A precedent provides legal authority for an action precisely because it occurred before.
If you're in the business of law you're in the business of representation and precedent.
When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.
The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.
You shouldn't reward me for endangering your life, you know. Think of the precedent you're setting.
There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did.
I think when any one kind of film does well, it creates a precedent and paves the way for more like it.
Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand.
We have the precedent of Collin Powell ten years ago, when he showed the evidence, it was false, and it was forged.
All our projects are like fabulous expeditions. The story of each project is unique. Our projects have no precedent.
I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.
One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.
One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.
Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.
There is no precedent of an advanced economy withdrawing from a trade agreement as deep and as complex as the European Union.
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
The precedent is that civilizations collapse, and everything's stacked up for this one to go, and it's a mess when it happens.
There's really no precedent for someone like me gaining clout in the space that I'm in - a black woman directing films in Hollywood.
Ultimately, with every film I'd done before, there was a reference. They have their own uniqueness, but there was always a precedent.
That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
There was no precedent. If I asked somebody, 'What do you expect me to do?' they all looked blank. They had no idea; nobody had much idea.
Discerning the legal difference between what WikiLeaks did and what news organizations do is difficult and would set a terrible precedent.
It's been really special being part of a project that's up with the times and woke and setting a precedent for inclusion and representation.
A lawsuit with no legal precedent, seeking no damages, from no jury, in the name of stopping something that isn't happening? Only in New York.
Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet.
I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.
I certainly don't support billionaires bankrupting media organizations. Even if you don't like the people involved, that sets a dangerous precedent.
A judge must interpret statutes as written. And a judge must interpret the Constitution as written, informed by history and tradition and precedent.
Whatever your partisan affiliation, it is worth considering the overarching constitutional principles involved in any given Supreme Court precedent.
The only thing that can be safely predicted is that sometime soon your organization will be challenged to change in ways for which it has no precedent.