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Meanings of precedents in English

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Those precedents foreclose any recognition of a private right, the brief said.
Reuters
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The traditional case-by-case approach embodied in past precedents may make that difficult.
Reuters
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You will need all precedents, rulings, laws, and amendments in the brief.
The unincorporated man
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But it is not a new idea, and the precedents are worrying.
Reuters
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One place where Fowles did have good precedents was in authorial interventions.
The Guardian
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Richard Holbroke has, I believe, set precedents with other indicted Yugoslav leaders.
The Irish Times
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But the precedents set by these cases fueled even more tort suits.
The emperor of all maladies: a biography of cancer
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And of this there be precedents in the very point of challenge.
The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
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He said a number of precedents used by ANZ's lawyers were irrelevant.
Radio NZ
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He was anxious to discover if there were precedents for their case.
Jonathan strange and mr norrell
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Words have been construed as treasons, there are precedents, you know them.'
Wolf hall
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But at Louvain de L'Escluse did more than learn of legal precedents.
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They are largely based on precedents set in the Andrew Johnson trial.
NY Magazine
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What are the precedents for joint military action by West African states?
The South African
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Thus Mary had chosen to follow the precedents of her male progenitors.
Mary tudor: princess, bastard, queen
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There are barely any prototypes or precedents for this kind of technology.
Wired
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