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Byrne's work has always been engaging and has drawn heavily on historical precedents, most notably pop art.
Historians of WWII have largely focused on women setting precedents and being able to join the boys in moving into paid wartime work.
The Court may have declined to review the case because its outcome seemed to be determined by recent Court precedents.
The sixteenth-century precedents regarding female rule in England, however, remained in abeyance until Anne's reign.
There were precedents in most agrarian societies for wage labor and tenantry.
The bishop said the precedents being set by America were of far-reaching importance.
Only, the money pledged seems a little chintzy, given the needs, and the precedents.
The shift to decompositional conceptions of analysis was not without precedents, however.
This 48 minute video takes a close look at how radar and laser guns work including calibration, accepted police practices, and legal precedents.
One of the early precedents of open source intelligence is the process of academic peer review.
The outcome of the process will set precedents for water allocation plans on other rivers, too.
Such provisions sometimes admit of multiple interpretations, especially when jurists ignore the relevant history and precedents.
Law is based on judge-made precedents, authoritative legal texts, and legislation.
Whereas the Stewart children had few pictorial precedents on the matter of negative exempla, a bounty of pictures represented choices being made.
The courts have also looked to the logical implications and extensions of their prior precedents in deciding whether a right is fundamental.
There are precedents setting a high barrier against prior restraint because of its inhibitory effects on freedom of expression.
Where are we going to find precedents as an alternative to this tinsel culture.
To make a prediction, one of the best ways is to turn to precedents according to the principle of stare decisis.
All of Saville's monumental nudes employ photographic precedents, but not in any simple way.
There are no precedents for what is the most public act of inhumanity in the world's history, so schools have largely been left to get by on a wing and a lot of prayers.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He did no more than follow the precedents of his own and every surrounding nation.
That a will could reach out and prearrange a man's misfortunes was to her mind incredible, for there were no precedents.
We've certainly upset some precedents, broken some rules, and maybe some laws.
The nineteenth century was plagiarising the eighteenth, and following precedents whose day was past.
These were chiefly well-meaning folks, not much given to the study of precedents.
In its various provisions, made with these two main objects in view, the Will followed the precedents established in such cases.
It's important to keep up-to-date if you don't want to set legal precedents and land your organization in court.
So that, however I may have occasion to rue my present audacity, I have at least the most respectable precedents in my favour.
Some of his decisions as surrogate are regarded as precedents to this day.
Explain to her that we have to go by precedents, and that I believe this one to be new.
Whether they had ever, at different times, pleaded for and against the same cause, and cited precedents to prove contrary opinions?
The guests, following his example, sat where they pleased, reckless of precedents and dignities.
The next proceedings were of a public and avowable nature, and strictly followed the customary precedents on such occasions.
There were mountains of precedents on this side or that, as you pleased.
Is Richard a monster in all this, or would Chancery be found rich in such precedents too if they could be got for citation from the Recording Angel?
The Jacobeans may have continued to build on Elizabethan precedents, but the period between 1603 and 1650 was also full of architectural experiment.
Because of this congenital racism, American judges routinely violate statutes and the US Constitution in their mulish fidelity to racist judicial precedents.
In the ceremony that held according the precedents of marines, Turkish Parliamentary Speaker Cemil Ecicek presented the banderole of the warship to its commander.
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