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1. Have your say in the business meeting but do it in love When emotions begin to take precedent over reason and (God's truth) then the business meeting can turn into a
2. The inspired writers of the New Testament find both precedent and authority for the
3. In doubtful cases such courts, from their anxiety to avoid blame, would naturally endeavour to shelter themselves under the example or precedent of the judges who had sat before them, either in the same or in some other court
4. This attention to practice and precedent,
5. though like a lot of new ideas, it had a precedent
6. “I thought there might be a historical precedent you’d know about
7. The solicitor acting for these masquerading princes and forgers, found he could not weave a single mesh of the legal net required for a prima facie case, though he had twisted and contorted every clause of the laws relating to libel, and waded through briefs innumerable, in the hope of finding a precedent
8. The capture of San Juan cannot form a demonstrative precedent in modern tactics
9. Purchasing group loyalties is not without precedent
10. The inherent ―right‖ to terminate one‘s (own) life as it relates to vague or questionable notions defining quality of life, introduces yet another dubious precedent as it relates to Choice, especially in rather gray areas where the decision to either perpetuate or curtail an individual‘s life has been proxied (sic) at a time when that individual could not possibly foresee the (uncertain) consequences of such decisions entrusted to the care of family members or friends (concealing underlying motives for authorizing such decisions, perhaps) or where a potential illness at some uncertain point in time or that individual‘s problematical reaction (to that illness) could not possibly be understood in advance; that is to say, until that individual is actually sitting on Death‘s doorstep
11. Whatever the so-called political or social ―realities‖ that engendered this ill-fated decision by the present Administration and its congressional allies, notwithstanding the program‘s perceived failings, this bill sets a troubling precedent for other (established) laws that might otherwise be ignored in the manner of ―break it now, fix it later‖ approach to law ―enforcement
12. The Nuremberg Trials established the precedent that just following orders is not a defense
13. The Uniform Code of Military Justice recognizes this precedent and incorporates it into military law in the concept of command responsibility
14. Luckily that has not started a precedent
15. Our advice is not to pay for it will cause a precedent and place even more employees at risk
16. I believe that we are setting a disturbing precedent by allowing our obsession with sports to (otherwise) run interference for social and political matters of critical importance in our daily lives
17. Killing a cognate is a precedent that cannot go unpunished
18. Obama may have set a new precedent for presidents backing down from starting a war when the public demands so
19. Had Johnson been successfully impeached this would have set a badly needed precedent limiting the power of the president
20. Particularly had Johnson's impeachment been earlier over his actual abuses of power, the precedent would have made it more difficult to use impeachment for such utterly frivolous and absurd cases as impeaching Clinton for lying about oral sex, or downright surreal and delusional birth certificate theories about Obama
21. It sets a bad precedent
22. It would not be without precedent that he should meet a ghost of the Holy Lands, perhaps some other Pilgrim before him who had wandered the Holy Lands and now roamed them freely, to warn the Pilgrims and the faithful and guide them through danger
23. I don’t believe in slavery, but I don’t think the Federal Government had the right to deprive the states of their rights, which established a dangerous precedent which is with us to this very day only much worse
24. “I was interested in the legal precedent for giving consent on behalf of one’s descendants,” Caleb says
25. This my friend sets a precedent with far reaching effects – what is the precedent?
26. Their aim is to expand the Court’s search for precedent beyond American shores to include the opinions of foreign judges, dignitaries, or political celebrities
27. ” Justice Stevens softens his citation by insisting that citing foreign opinion does not necessarily mean taking it as guiding precedent
28. But if citing such a precedent has no precedential value, why cite it?
29. Justice Breyer was quoted as saying that regardless of complaints against the practice, judges would look increasingly to foreign sources for legal precedent when considering American constitutional cases
30. precedent, and incite subsequent accusations for the purpose of obtaining ends that a vote does not grant
31. Walling), with no precedent in law or fact, by which the federal government might intrude into purely state functions
32. or taken under that precedent, more than half the number that had
33. Those around them were terrified at what had happened in their midst, as such an attack and the reasons behind it had no precedent in their history
34. The mental journey of discovery that this took him on was without precedent compared with anything he had experienced before this time
35. journey of discovery that this took him on was without precedent compared with anything he
36. Given the time of the case, it likely helped establish the precedent for federal regulation of interstate commerce
37. Now that a sportsman has been nominated to the Rajya Sabha, a good precedent has been set
38. “After the poisonings, I really don’t know what could be said, if we start to negotiate after that what will we have next? I don’t think it is a very good precedent
39. Then the forward action takes precedent
40. As a result of this chance meeting in the market place there came about a three weeks' conference at the Gilboa camp between the apostles of Jesus and the apostles of John, for John had recently appointed twelve of his leaders to be apostles, following the precedent of Jesus
41. The precedent was interesting but laughable during a period of time when mullets were more popular than computers
42. Our careers started taking precedent
43. precedent could be used to guide him
44. from custom, and therefore had no precedent to offer guidance
45. This, however, is not to set a precedent as it is covered by the defendant’s right to a speedy trial
46. You are going to have to make some exceptions to the rules about family serving together, but since I established the precedent with their parents, you can blame it on me
47. She tried to speak to José Arcadio Segundo, to let him know about that precedent, but Aureliano Segundo told her that since the night of the attempt on his life no one knew his whereabouts
48. Aureliano and Amaranta Úrsula were not aware of the family precedent, nor did they remember Úrsula’s frightening admonitions, and the midwife pacified them with the idea that the tail could be cut off when the child got his second teeth
49. And so an historical precedent had occurred, a person could from now onwards be classed as a Tolteca if it was deemed they had a service to perform in the Toltec cause
50. injustice and set a precedent that could potentially save lives or convict