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reasoning from written law and analogy to precedent case law. ... ====Analogies from precedent case law==== By contrast, in common law ...

of Independence, it established the precedent by which the United States ... revolutionary in that it established the precedent for lands to be administered ...

skills as a businesswoman also led the precedent of compensation when Major ... Irvin to New York, Manley established the precedent that the contracts of the ...

of extensive non-statutory law reflecting precedent derived from centuries ... As a genre of law which is based on custom, tradition, and/or precedent ...

but rather, there is an explicit legal precedent (the "Miller test ... the Hicklin test, stemming from the English precedent. ...

Despite this independence, Reith set a delicate precedent of close working relationships between politicians and the BBC while still having autonomy ...

earlier productions had done, setting a precedent that has been followed ... His act of defecting from the Soviet Union, too, established a precedent; ...

by law, purposes that by virtue of precedent can be still be relevant in charity case law today.[https://www.courthouselibrary.ca/how-we-can ...

"I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things ...

the core of a law as found in a constitution, in precedent, or else as interpreted to arise from either or both. As most legal systems are nationalistic ...

with other local painters, which set a precedent for women to be accepted ... apprenticeship with local painters set a precedent for women to be accepted ...

Missouri Compromise was important as the first precedent for the congressional exclusion of slavery from public territory acquired since the adoption ...

Mystical Body of Christ provided the theological precedent for the emergence of Mystici Corporis Christi. However, the specific conditions for the encyclical ...

primary sources of Halakha as well as on precedent set by previous rabbinic ... unless supported by a relevant earlier precedent. There are important exceptions ...

of the common law, usually following precedent faithfully. He issued few ... believed that he was adhering to his own precedent, many later commentators ...

law. This case law becomes the precedent for future cases. In the United States, there are cases arising under the constitution, federal law, ...

hunger and corrupt. In this, he set a precedent which others, such as Muhammad ... surrounding his appointment set the precedent for a Pakistani general ...

who succeeded him in leading the military a precedent to intervene in government in the name of fighting corruption or maintaining national unity ...

*Third, it sets the precedent for a prophet confronting and changing the plans of a southern, or Davidic king—and a generally righteous king ...

in 1814. Its caricatures are often considered the precedent to modern manga. == European Influence == [[Image:hokusai-fuji9.png|thumb|400px|45th ...

connected and made habitable, is a good precedent for Koolhaas' China ... architectural topics such as function and precedent to prominence and displays ...

rejoin the Catholic Church. He also set the precedent, which is maintained to this day, that any sacrament correctly administered by a properly ordained ...

Polycarp on the Easter question left an important precedent, which Irenaeus would later cite in his attempt to mediate the controversy when it reached ...

Russian literature, nor is the theory without precedent. The English Romantic poets made extensive use of it. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in his Biographia ...

The Tudors superseded this Neville crossover precedent, effectively balancing rival factions, as the Rising of the North itself ended the Percy-Neville ...

and the extent to which the break with British precedent occurred. President Adams never asked for nor encouraged the legislation and never invoked ...

Part of the problem here is the lack of a clear historical precedent. In the whole of Scotland's history as a fully separate country before ...

is based on a narrative convention, not historical precedent. Such bargains are a common feature in fairy tales, creating a narrative problem that must ...

Hermes as official bishop, thus establishing a precedent implying a papal veto over the nomination of bishops, even though the veto was not exercised ...

Arafat in an unsuccessful attempt to repeat the precedent of 1978. More recently, President George W. Bush has frequently used the retreat as a place ...

lower court's judgment based on legal precedent and citations to the controlling cases or statutory law. When it is a trial or motion brief, the ...

personal rule of Oliver Cromwell. It established a precedent that British monarchs could not govern without the consent of Parliament. ...

written out of necessity, it set a historic precedent toward the creation of a new democratic nation. == Text of the Mayflower Compact == ...

trace his sources, and as a result he set a precedent of scholarly accuracy for writers across the range of disciplines. Bede's attention to sources ...

people must rely on what Lewis calls "precedent" in order to get a salient solution. If both participants know that a particular co-ordination ...

who disagreed. This set a significant precedent for subsequent state involvement ... Following on from the precedent established by Constantine I, it sometimes ...

Education, citing the U.S. Supreme Court precedent set in Plessy v. Ferguson, ... The 17 May, 1954 decision reversed the precedent set by the Court ...

that of the council, which followed the precedent of earlier synods in giving the patriarch of Constantinople virtually equal dignity and authority ...

reject the formalistic notion of binding precedent (although paying due consideration to settled case-law), and that certain civil law systems ...

of discovery"; following long European precedent, both sides recognized only limited sovereign rights of the indigenous population. ...

Rosetta Stone, these priests continued the precedent set by Ptolemy III (whose decree appears on the Stone of Canopus) of issuing decrees to the populace ...

Following the precedent set by his own father, King Taejong abdicated the throne, passing power to his son during his own lifetime, thus helping ...

traditions (Hadith). There is a historic precedent of certain Chishti masters (and masters of other orders) not requiring their non-Muslim followers ...

sense, Victor's actions set an unfortunate precedent, which continued to be experienced as arrogance and sometimes as outright error by those ...

of the contractual terms or the condition precedent. In the U.S., the general ... come under two categories: condition precedent and condition subsequent. ...

"Good Samaritan" laws take precedent over property laws where applicable. Civilians are afforded certain protection in emergencies—people ...

of high lamas in Tibet. This decision cites a precedent set by the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, who instituted a system of selecting the Dalai ...

In that both his father and grandfather set the precedent. In addition to military prowess, Chandragupta II elevated culture, art, mathematics ...

capture and humiliation by an enemy, based on the precedent of King Saul (1 Sam. 31:1-6). In that situation, suicide was the honorable course, one chosen ...

Scottish settlement, the instrument has no known precedent in Ireland or Scotland. However, several diatonic fretted zithers exist in continental Europe ...

In legal reasoning, for example, this might be a precedent case, such as premeditated murder. From it, the casuist would ask how closely the given case ...

During Hastings' time in this post, a great deal of precedent was established pertaining to the methods which the British Empire would use ...

and John Byron Nelson, Sr. His parents set a precedent for him not only in their long lives—Madge Nelson lived to age 98, and her husband to age ...

long, thematically innovative novel had no precedent and can fairly be said to stand alone in its trenchant use of symbols and archetypes. The novel ...

with what they claim is little or no precedent. This precedent they argue exists in the form of megalithic ruins found all over the globe discovered ...

of a low-level clerk, was a clear precedent for Dostoyevsky's protagonists in Notes from the Underground and Crime and Punishment—a debt ...

halakhic rulings must not contradict accepted precedent *Belief in the 13 Jewish principles of faith as stated by the rabbinical sage Maimonides ...

become a settled part of English legal precedent, and more difficult for ... for Magna Carta, but that there was no precedent shown as to these laws ...

This ruling set a federal district judicial precedent in the context of legal restrictions on the teaching of religion in U.S. schools, and more broadly ...

for such a Holy Experiment. For the Nations want a precedent and my God will Make it the Seed of a Nation. That an example may be set up to the Nations ...

George Washington's inauguration that the precedent for ballroom dance in the new republic was established. Buckman, At eighteenth century ...

issue, the magazine broke with 80 years of precedent and issued a formal endorsement of Kerry in a long editorial, signed "The Editors," ...

of the Confucian classics, setting the precedent for the national exam system used to screen government officials in 1788. The Confucian religion ...

Barnett and Wells were married. She set an early precedent as being one of the first married American women to keep her own last name along with her ...

a golden seal of authority. This established a precedent for the Dalai Lama of later generations to receive their post offically from the imperial court. ...

quot; and, in doing so, established a precedent for religious freedoms guaranteed in the later United States Constitution. For much of his later ...

of the United States overnight and set a precedent for the purchase of territory ... is "judge-made" law based on precedent, and is the basis of statutes ...

undertaken by Bly, set an important precedent. As forerunner to Ida M. Tarbell, and Dorothy Thompson, she successfully pioneered working in the ...

outward appearance. This conclusion has become a precedent for research experiments since this one, it has become customary to take the "Hawthorne ...

toward the Jews was even less pacific, and the precedent he set of violently expelling the Jewish community from Alexandria stands as a shameful reminder ...

child by his or her partner have been approved in precedent court rulings (after numerous high court appeals). Western-style homosexuality is ...

of 1842. The courts sided with her. She set a precedent whereby playwrights needed to gain permission from authors before using their works. The Society ...

scheme. In his later works, following the precedent of Laurentius Valla, he also attacked the validity of the third figure. Ramus also set the ...

and intellectual beings provided a precedent for misogynistic treatment of women in Western literature. Flaubert's aesthetic ideals influenced ...

labeled as "sea" then there would be precedent to international treaties obliging the granting of access permits to foreign vessels. If a body ...

This situation was almost without precedent in Chinese history, and was considered a terrible disgrace to the Chinese people. Zhu Xi, who was ...

and difficult performances, setting a precedent that continues to inspire. The new medium of television helped publicize and initiate a modern ...

minima of pleasures and pains, and they set a precedent for the future employment of the maximization principle in the economics of the consumer, the ...

taken by Israelis as a historical-religious precedent for Arafat's intentions. The Israelis' trust in the accords was further undermined ...

a project as Middlemarch without the precedent set by Trollope in his own novels of the fictional — yet thoroughly lively — county of Barsetshire. ...

function as a mere consort of a queen. The only precedent for a joint monarchy dated from the sixteenth century; when Queen Mary I married the Spanish ...

rulings (decisions) of a court constitute binding precedent upon the same court or courts of lower status within their jurisdiction. ...

the sovereign’s policies. Often a precedent, analogy, or model (fa, also “law”) was cited, followed by an explanation of how the case at ...

The Emperor Constantine I established a precedent for the position ... had led his parishioners to destroy. This precedent was also an important one ...

others (such as murder, theft) should take precedent over ones that don’t. For philosophers like Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean Jacques Rousseau ...

modern black performers and composers to set the precedent of attending to the business side of his musical career by founding both a record label and ...

In recent years, Denver has set a national precedent for offering ... As a result, the city has set a national precedent on homeless services, with ...

profile since their marriage in 1938, set a precedent for radicalizing the arts by conducting an investigation into the political character of Wu Han ...

based on political theory, historical precedent, and specific factors relating to the newly independent United States. The Constitution, as drafted ...

Before Henry Gates, there was some precedent for the analysis of African American folk heroes as destructive agents of an oppressive hierarchical ...

R. 1010 where the Court had established the legal precedent that a First Nations band in Canada can make claim to "Aboriginal title" to specific ...

Most of the cardinals abided by the established precedent of voting only for a member of the College of Cardinals, in spite of the affirmation of the ...

The earliest precedent of any literary work using this technique is possibly Ovid's Metamorphoses in ancient Rome. Sir Thomas Browne's ...

Western Europe; made for an Ottonian abbess and a precedent for the polychrome wooden processional sculptures of Romanesque France, a type known as Throne ...

resisted, stating that it would set a bad precedent (as previously, it was considered inappropriate for emperors to read histories of their own ...

and propose the Gaulish bear god Artio as a precedent for the legend of Arthur. Various sites and places have been identified as "Arthurian ...

One last precedent to stigmata is the mark of baptism. Those baptized are marked with the sign of the cross in oil on their foreheads. Many Christians ...

combined with ideas of Manifest Destiny, provided precedent and support for United States expansion on the American continent. In the late 1800s, United ...

temple archives of each city, vast stores of precedent in ancient deeds and records of judicial decisions had accumulated, and that legal history had ...

debate. In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court set the precedent, in Gratz v Bollinger, that the University of Michigan's points-based undergraduate admissions ...

At a time when there was no established precedent for a woman on the throne. Pope Clement VII refused to allow the annulment of Henry's ...

and Gratz, the Court upheld both Bakke as a precedent and the admissions policy of the University of Michigan law school. In dicta, however, Justice ...

from an environmental review would set a bad precedent. In the end, the bill died without being sent to a committee. The Forest Service said it owned ...

to first principles rather than by following precedent. One of the most important contributions of the Bauhaus is in the field of modern furniture ...

August 1910, Montenegro followed Bulgaria's precedent by becoming a kingdom. ===The Balkan League=== [[Image:Bulgarian army adrinople.jpg ...

ethos of the United States, but established a precedent that would be used later in other struggles for freedom, including the struggle for civil rights ...

declared vacant. There also exists a common law precedent from the eighteenth century that the "deaf and dumb" are ineligible to sit in the ...

He was a performer of force without precedent with a sound as lonesome and mystical as it was dynamic. He gives hope to the vanquished and humility ...

Rosetta Stone, these priests continued the precedent set by Ptolemy III (whose decree appears on the Stone of Canopus) of issuing decrees to the populace ...

Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[Image:Bedouin_Resting.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|Bedouin resting ...

Jesus over this, he pointed to biblical precedent and declared that "the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath." Some claim ...

of Lyons, who reminded Victor of the tolerant precedent that had been established earlier. By the third century, the Christian church in general ...

eventually flourished and set the precedent for other new communities ... Sepulchre, he refused, lest he create a precedent for its use as a mosque ...

a jurist who seeks to build cautiously on precedent rather than pushing the ... value and possible wisdom, not as precedent which the court is bound ...

in 1530, giving legal and historical precedent of cases such as Henry's, allowing the king to build an academic case to break with Rome ...

power, thereby establishing an important precedent that was to serve as an ... commander-in-chief was to establish the precedent that civilian elected officials ...

among the early Church Fathers and an ancient precedent from the Church of Alexandria, which held that presbyters ("priests" or "elders ...

Twenty-First Army Group. In a move without precedent in modern warfare, the U.S. 3rd Army under George Patton disengaged from their combat in the Saarland ...

first, its adherents saw a strong Biblical precedent for their renunciation; and, second, they (in many cases) viewed themselves as successors to the ...

While existentialism has a precedent in the writings of Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Fyodor Dostoevsky, it was not until Heidegger’s ...

Following the German precedent of a research university, the University ... research institutions, following Germanic precedent. The College of the University ...

later emperors would follow Justinian's precedent and marry outside of the aristocratic class. The marriage was a source of scandal, but Theodora ...

wanted peace. On August 15, 1945, he broke the precedent of imperial silence by making a national radio broadcast to announce Japan's acceptance ...

Kingdom have been able to point to the precedent of her rule as one that ... death. James I's proclamation broke precedent because it was issued not ...

A classic precedent of the dhimma was an agreement between Muhammad and the Jews of Khaybar, an oasis near Medina. Khaybar was the first territory ...

The Washington Monument is a large white-colored obelisk at the west end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C. It is a United States Presidential ...

toward divine infinity, were devices without precedent, and which depended on the extrapolation of the mechanics of perspective. The recession and movement ...

using a newly created title and setting the precedent for the next two millennia. He established a new centralized, bureaucratic state to replace the ...

extinct since the Industrial Revolution has no precedent in biological history. If this rate of extinction continues, or accelerates as now seems to ...

S. State Department that our action was without precedent in the history of international practice." Since 1947, sixty percent of hijackings ...

the end of the conflict, which established a new precedent for political asylum for POWs. ====Vietnam War==== The governments of both North and ...

former argument is that previous electoral precedent held that one man was equivalent to one vote, and the fact that the compromise explicitly tied ...

in Great Britain, and set a legal precedent for other convictions. [https://www.eroticabibliophile.com/censorship_history.php "The Obscenity ...

Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services set the precedent for same-sex harassment, and sexual harassment without motivation of "sexual desire," ...

its continuation—and, most importantly, the precedent it set—made new generations of mothers aware of the advantages of breast milk over formula. ...

had held these powers previously, and there was no precedent within the Roman system for combining the powers of the Tribune and the Censor into a single ...

of a new age. This end of an era thinking has a precedent at the time of the year 1000, and then at the turn the twenty-first century. Michael Heffernan ...

could be tried by the Tribunal became an important precedent. As the war went badly, the political fortune of the Girondins, supporters of the war, shifted ...

long, thematically innovative novel had no precedent and can fairly be said to stand alone in its trenchant use of symbols and archetypes. The novel ...

no sons, share in the allotment, establishing a precedent for Israelite females to inherit land. On God's orders, Moses commissions Joshua as his ...

(green), soul (red), word (yellow), precedent (blue), and immanence (white). These virtues take the shape of five different spirits which, until ...

remains in Indonesia, and is sometimes seen as a precedent for the current political boundaries of the Republic. Many of modern Indonesian national symbols ...

convention and established an important precedent in Canadian history. In Canada’s Senate Chamber, the five women are honored with a plaque ...

foreign dynasties, which set a precedent for the later conquerors who controlled China’s destiny for most of the next millennium. ...

as holy Roman emperor, establishing the precedent in the West that no man would be emperor without anointment by a pope. The East, however, continued ...

process in the Supreme Court, the original precedent for… Roe v. Wade. Scalia went on to compare the false expectation by President Buchanan ...

to Chaerea 'but saw the danger in the precedent of regicide', and more or less persuaded the Senate, which had heaped praise on Chaerea ...

church." The Nicene Creed established a precedent for subsequent ecumenical councils of bishops' to create statements of belief and canons ...

Supreme Court then cited the Gitlow case as precedent for a series of decisions that made most, but not all, of the provisions of the Bill of Rights ...

Nostradamus' reliance on historical precedent is reflected in the fact that he explicitly rejected the label "prophet" (i.e. a ...

The royal abbey of St. Denis set a precedent with its crown of chapels, radiant with stained glass windows, that builders would attempt to imitate ...

The Halakha has developed slowly, through a precedent-based system. The literature of questions to rabbis, and their considered answers, is referred ...

Historical precedent shows that major social changes have taken place during "cusp" periods, defined by changing relations among human ...

a very poor claim to the throne. According to precedent, the crown should have passed to the male descendants of Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence ...

Parliament broke with precedent by commissioning a bust of Heath while he was still alive. "Unveiling of a Statue of Baroness Thatcher in ...

and centuries of debate, interpretation and precedent. Islamic feminists challenge the patriarchal interpretation of what they call “medieval male ...

of artistic craftsmanship, virtually without precedent or equal. While the design allows for entry from each face, only the south (garden facing ...

of thousands of southerners set a precedent for later, even more destructive campaigns in the twentieth century. Yet his southern strategy turned ...

there is no need for Justin to quote a neglected precedent for toleration. The Christians can rise above these lower appeals and stand upon the justness ...

Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda delivered a precedent-setting verdict that made sexual violence a war crime. This defined rape as an institutionalized ...

quiet and obedient girl turn against precedent to refuse her parents' marriage arrangements. Jane's refusal notwithstanding, her parents ...

then swayed by Julius Caesar who decried the precedent it would set and argued in favor of the punishment being confined to a mode of banishment. ...

contending that the ruling ignored precedent and that abortion rights should instead be justified by equality. ===Dobbs v. Jackson Women's ...

their discretionary powers, and have discarded precedent and common law, and in their place substituted their own liberal judgment.Robert H. Bork, ...

was probably intended to satirize, it set the precedent for a number of different studies, the results of which are contradictory. ...

submit his or her resignation. Previous precedent, until the early twentieth century, dictated that a prime minister wait until actually defeated ...

and evil, pure selfishness, a dangerous precedent, madness, and pathology. Conceptions of suicide clearly are framed within and affected by the ...

The split of Korea into north and south has precedent in Korean history. The northern regions of the Korean Peninsula, extending throughout Manchuria ...

she has repeatedly noted, "There's a precedent in real life for everything in the book. I decided not to put anything in that somebody somewhere ...

Pickford," a star was born and a new precedent had been set.[https://www ... Pickford—setting another important precedent—used her stature ...

:* El Diálogo de los Perros (The Dialogue of the Dogs), another precedent of picaresque through the story of two dogs :* Segunda parte del ingenioso ...

From the start, Hamilton set a precedent as a Cabinet member by dreaming up federal programs, writing them in the form of reports, pushing for ...

Following a precedent set in 533, the new Pope then has to decide on a new pontifical name. Pope John II was the first to adopt a new papal name; ...

refused Joseph Stalin's request, seeing a precedent of communization of territory it occupied in the Soviet zone in Eastern Europe; ultimately Truman ...

1956). The court essentially decided that the precedent of Brown v. Board of Education (1954) could be applied to Browder v. Gayle. November 13, 1956 ...

The epic's setting certainly has a historical precedent in Vedic India, where the Kuru kingdom was the center of political power in the late second ...

Nazis and the Japanese Imperialists was without precedent. === Anti-Semitism === Anti-Semitism Anti-Semitism is a specific case of racism targeting ...

and made a documentary, a short film, and two precedent music videos (The Unknown Soldier and People are Strange). Morrison's controversial ...

of those he conquered was without precedent in history. However he may be viewed as a conqueror, it is undeniable he was a major force in opening ...

v. James Edward Whittaker-Williams, arguably set a precedent of banning sexual contact between people with "learning difficulties." The accused ...

of these edicts, established the precedent for civil law based on Sharia, which has influenced Islamic governments to the present day. This can ...

due process should be employed based on Court precedent. In other words, the main debate in recent decades within the Court over substantive due ...

unlawful or unconstitutional is a well-established precedent. Many of the Founding Fathers accepted the notion of judicial review; in Federalist No. 78 ...

on the question, including the Supreme Court. A precedent against the validity of rescission was first established during the ratification process of ...

occasion and in formal documents. In the light of precedent it seems clear that the wife of a Royal Highness enjoys the same title unless some appropriate ...

many of the Xiongnu feared that it would set a precedent for unending military service to the Han court. The murdered shanyu's son succeeded ...

title in her own right. There was longstanding precedent for such remainders for military commanders: Past examples included the 1st Viscount Nelson ...

such a high party official was without precedent in the Soviet Union." Kirov was cremated and his ashes interred in the Kremlin Wall necropolis ...

victims were sawed asunder, according to a precedent to which David had given the sanction of his examples. The victorious Jews devoured the flesh, licked ...

for dealing with the Americans. Having no precedent to follow in managing this threat to national security, Abe tried to balance the desires ...

where the spiritual state is the ontological precedent of material existence. Pahlavi literature suggests that only evil spirits are capable of transmuting ...

from breaking with constitutional precedent by openly voting for Gladstone’s Representation of the People Bill in the House of Lords. On other ...

Harman. Functionalists have claimed to find a precedent for their view in Aristotle's De Anima. Martha C. Nussbaum and Hilary Putnam, "Changing ...

The -ium suffix had the advantage of conforming to the precedent set in other newly discovered elements of the time: potassium, sodium, magnesium ...

required prescriptions for opiates. It became precedent that any prescription for a narcotic given to a drug addict by a physician or pharmacist—even ...

at that time as the Menists. This order set the precedent that was to be repeated many times throughout history, where a political ruler would allow ...

2002, and to retire quietly, helping to set a precedent that someone who lost a high-level struggle for leadership would not be physically harmed ...

decision. This strike, however, also set a precedent for future preemptive strikes to be launched, by Israel or even the U.S., against a state such as Iran. ...

joined a Rehnquist opinion, following an earlier precedent from an opinion she authored in 1993, in which the Court struck down an electoral districting ...

to write a piece consisting solely of silence. One precedent is "In futurum," a movement from the Fünf Pittoresken for piano by Czech composer ...

of the Magic Johnson Theatre chain, citing as precedent Sid Grauman, builder of Grauman's (now TCL) Chinese Theatre. Muhammad Ali's ...

" Only the Seven Years' War offered a precedent for widespread conflict on such a scale. == Third Coalition 1805 == Napoleon planned ...

family as necessary, highlighting the precedent set in the French Revolution. last=Volkogonov|first=Dmitri|author-link=Dmitri Volkogonov|date ...

successors. Modern pornography has no precedent in the chapbook market but originates in libertine and hedonistic belles lettres, of works like ...

This event became an important precedent in Chinese history; it is regarded as the beginning of the establishment of Confucianism as an official ...

of political power based on recent precedent, and the formal founding of the Roman Empire. Caesar's military campaigns are known in detail ...

Princess Amelia. Parliament agreed to follow the precedent of 1788; without the King's consent, the Lord Chancellor affixed the Great Seal of the ...

right, rather than as a mere consort. The only precedent for a joint monarchy in England dated from the sixteenth century: when Queen Mary I married ...

Ireland. Constitutionally, the wars established a precedent that British monarchs could not govern without the consent of Parliament. ...

from the leadership quite without precedent in the Party’s history. Formerly diehard party workers departed in droves. Donations and subscriptions ...

Version of the Bible (1611 C.E.)is without precedent, and apparently together with the "owl" ( he|ISO|yanšup , probably a water bird ...

in vernacular Wu Chinese. The novel set a precedent for all Chinese literature and was highly popular until the standardization of vernacular ...

were forthcoming. This set a significant precedent–the League rarely acted against major powers, and occasionally broke its own rules. ...

(a constitutional procedure without precedent in British history) on whether to stay in the EC on the new terms. A referendum was duly held on ...

governance based on Parliamentary precedent "similar in principle to that of the United Kingdom" and divided powers between the federal ...

in the Chamber of Deputies. It was a worrying precedent for an allied prime minister. Problems grew at the War Office as Secretary of State for ...

Divorce or dissolution of marriage is the ending of a marriage before the death of either spouse. It can be contrasted with an annulment, which ...

the first allegation he could claim ancient precedent: contractors had always paid a yearly sum as a perquisite to the commander-in-chief in the ...

worship according to their conscience set a precedent that would come to be enshrined in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing the ...

families of the U.S. victims, citing the Feres precedent, which prevents lawsuits against the U.S. from injured service members or families of personnel ...

claimed that the rioting in Birmingham set a precedent for the "Burn, baby, burn" mindset, a cry used in later civic unrest in the Watts Riots ...

during the queen's minority. Ignoring precedent, Parliament did not create a council to limit the powers of the Regent. Princess Victoria ...

to Judith's beauty, which has a high precedent in Giulio Romano." ===The Calling of Saint Matthew=== Used as a decorative art in the ...

in February 1946; this veto established the precedent that permanent members could use the veto on matters outside of immediate concerns of war ...

number of noble lines. Here he followed the precedent of Lucius Junius Brutus and Julius Caesar. Despite this, many in the Senate remained hostile ...

Gary Engle described it as without "precedent in popular culture" in Superman at Fifty: The Persistence of a Legend.Dennis Dooley ...

warfare to settle disputes formed a precedent that inflames conflict to the present day and undermines respect for religion as a noble enterprise ...

like novels for which there is very little precedent. ===Early work=== Since neurology and psychiatry were not recognized as distinct medical ...

who did not resign upon it; a crucial precedent, this was taken to be an indication that he viewed the source of his power as no longer being ...

Davis in 2004 in Vieth v. Jubelirer, and Court precedent holds gerrymandering to be a political question. According to calculations made by Burt Neuborne ...

Jewish American Warren Weinstein in 2011 as precedent for further kidnappings. Al-Zawahiri also called for the institution of Sharia law in Egypt and ...

of Rome ever had these powers, and there was no precedent within the Roman system for combining the powers of the tribune and the censor into a single ...

fighters. The state funeral, which “had no precedent in living memory except those of the Windsor monarchs” (Ramsden 2003: 5) was the largest gathering ...

post-622 C.E. was circumstantial, not a binding precedent for Muslims for all time. Throughout the world today, there are Muslim monarchies (some constitutional ...

argued that the bill set a dangerous precedent and put the onus of paying survivors and descendants on Floridians who had nothing to do with ...

once it recognized the fait accompli. It was a precedent that Velasquez would subsequently come to regret. Ultimately, Cortés and the conquest ...

ruling of the lower court being upheld, but no precedent being set, and the justices would not publish written opinions on the merits of the case. ...

Israeli legal system is based on the principle of precedent; it is an adversarial system, not an inquisitorial one, in the sense that the parties (for ...

nullifying the law and creating precedent for future law and decisions. Some have complained that the Supreme Court sometimes exceeds its Constitutional ...

Habsburg cause in the Holy Roman Empire; the precedent led, seven decades later, to a war that ended Spain's role as Europe's leading power. ...

The use of English has been established through precedent. Irish and Ulster Scots are officially recognised minority languages |footnote2 = ...

Ireland. Constitutionally, the wars established a precedent that British monarchs could not govern without the consent of Parliament although this would ...

Roman imperial tradition in the west, and set a precedent for the dependence of the emperors on papal approval. He is often seen as the Father ...

Roman imperial tradition in the west, and set a precedent for the dependence of the emperors on papal approval. He is often seen as the Father of Europe ...