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How to use the word Precedent in a Sentence? Page #9

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(It) is the first time a national court has recognized and established state troops were responsible for subjecting women, the majority indigenous women in this case, to sexual slavery and exploitation and that sexual violence was used as a weapon of war, this ruling sets a very important example and precedent for criminal proceedings and convictions involving sexual violence in conflict that's not only relevant for Guatemala but other countries like Colombia in armed conflict.

– Paula Barrios

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This case is about much more than a single phone or a single investigation, at stake is the data security of hundreds of millions of law-abiding people, and setting a dangerous precedent that threatens everyone's civil liberties.

– Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This case is about much more than a single phone or a single investigation, at stake is the data security of hundreds of millions of law-abiding people, and setting a dangerous precedent that threatens everyone’s civil liberties.

– Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This case is about much more than a single phone or a single investigation, so when we received the government’s order we knew we had to speak out, at stake is the data security of hundreds of millions of law-abiding people, and setting a dangerous precedent that threatens everyone’s civil liberties.

– Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The government is asking Apple Inc to hack our own users and undermine decades of security advancements that protect our customers — including tens of millions of American citizens — from sophisticated hackers and cybercriminals, we can find no precedent for an American company being forced to expose its customers to a greater risk of attack.

– Executive Tim Cook

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Granting a stay would offer the benefit of bankruptcy protection without actually filing for Chapter 11 and puts huge pressure on everyone to work out a deal. It could create a bad precedent.

– Charles Tabb

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Such discriminatory treatment of Christianity is an unconstitutional promotion of one religion over another, united States Supreme Court precedent does not create a double standard that allows for the promotion of Islam in our public schools while disallowing and silencing teachings of Christianity and Judaism.

– Richard Thompson

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I got ahead of it on being born in the Canal Zone when I was running in 2008, i said, 'Look, there is a precedent set: Barry Goldwater ran for president; was born in Arizona when it was a territory.' The Panama Canal was a territory of the United States of America.

– Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This will be a bad precedent related to other similar lawsuit against the forest fires perpetrators in the future.

– Hadi Jatmiko

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This decision is a fatal blow to the mismanaged MOX project at the (Savannah River Site) as it will set the precedent that plutonium is waste and not a commercial product to be used as nuclear fuel.

– Tom Clements

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Everyone is worried about the $1.2 trillion options expiration that takes place today and you're going to see some jimmying and jammying around that, but, the historical precedent of the December expiration is that it's usually pretty damn bullish.

– Jeffrey Saut

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a good precedent of how to agree on funds for environmental and socioeconomic recovery, that's our goal.

– Rodrigo Vieira

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Poland has a major interest in preventing any British EU exit. We are ready to support British demands as regards changes to their treaty obligations and possibly also changes to the European Union's treaty architecture, we want Britain to stay in the EU... The EU's strength comes first and foremost from its scale. It would make a bad precedent to create a smaller union. That would mean the weakening of Europe's position.

– Konrad Szymanski

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Barring refugees based on nationality raises serious questions regarding national origin discrimination and sets a dangerous precedent.

– Tom Jawetz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

That set a bad precedent. The European Parliament will not look away.

– German Chancellor Angela Merkel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's a very, very bad decision unsupported by precedent, so the sooner an appeals court throws it out, the better.

– Stuart Newman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If not corrected, this will create a dangerous precedent.

– Gilles Gauthier

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Pushing kids to eat when they aren't hungry sets up a bad precedent.

– Lauren Levine

Found on CNN
8 years ago

(This) has proved to markets that China is willing to act. Investors have been waiting for them to act and they have, is this sufficient? It might not be but it does set a precedent that they are engaged and looking to prevent any further declines.

– Kallum Pickering

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Now that they've excluded them, they should be prosecuted to set a clear precedent that it's unacceptable to engage in electoral violence.

– Mark Schneider

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Unless you have a precedent, cases that have met the challenge of getting through a legal battle, there is often a reluctance to prosecute a case where the science shows a doping violation but the law may not allow a sanction to be imposed for that offense.

– James Ferstle

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If they continue on this path it sets a bad precedent for warm-water species management, we just think long term it will harm the (warm-water) fishery.

– Lonnie Johnson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There's no precedent for revoking a medal. We don't have that mechanism.

– The President

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This really is not a question of legal precedent, but more one of how far can people push the boundaries of asking for voluntary donations without really having a cohesive plan as to where the money will go, this is an ‘ all-or-nothing ’ campaign, so if he does not raise $ 1.6 billion, everyone gets refunded. But imagine if he received $ 10 million in donations, and did a ‘ flexible funding ’ campaign where he actually gets the money, even if he did not reach the goal ? What would happen then ? That is the real problem, is if some scam artist tried to take advantage of a situation like this.

– Kendall Almerico

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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