noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
set a precedent (= do something that later actions or decisions may be based on )
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This legislation would set a most dangerous precedent.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dangerous
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In the current climate the referendum has created a dangerous precedent .
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For the Soviet Union, the return to any nation of territory occupied during the war would create a dangerous precedent .
historical
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There were historical precedents for this kind of female protest.
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This is a legitimate objective founded on strong historical precedents: an unhappy monarch is a dangerous monarch.
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This requires imagination, inventiveness and aesthetic sensitivity informed by historical precedent .
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In attempting this I have high hopes because there are strong historical precedents for such speculations.
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There are plenty of historical precedents for this, as I pointed out in Chapter 2.
important
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We feel that the experience of technology agreements offers important precedents and lessons in this respect.
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The decision sets an important precedent .
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If upheld in appellate court the case could form an important precedent in family law.
legal
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No doubt many fewer laymen are aware of the parallel legal practice of precedent .
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The court ignored mountains of its own legal precedent .
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Thirdly, there was now a legal precedent upon which to mount attacks on politically inspired censorship.
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Hastings said he would approve the trip unless the defense attorneys could cite legal precedents supporting their argument.
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It was a legal precedent , if not a very reassuring one.
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I can cite several legal precedents .
■ NOUN
condition
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Thus, I conclude that the requirement to serve a demand is a procedural condition precedent to bringing proceedings.
■ VERB
break
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So, Major may be going for broke by breaking with precedent .
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It also broke precedent by not publishing the name or location of the company that will manufacture the drug.
create
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In the current climate the referendum has created a dangerous precedent .
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That has created a precedent which, it is argued, could also apply to the presidential term.
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For the Soviet Union, the return to any nation of territory occupied during the war would create a dangerous precedent .
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The application does not fall within the Structure Plan for the area and to allow it would create a precedent .
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It also created a possible precedent for Soviet conduct in other Third World regions.
establish
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The risks of establishing an expensive precedent were considered too great to countenance.
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He established a precedent that the president can act far more extensively than the constitution allows.
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They wanted state authorities to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act to avoid establishing new precedents for national intervention in state affairs.
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Davis' original move to Los Angeles established the judicial precedent that a team can move without approval from other owners.
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But the practical effect was to establish the precedent that the future of Northern Ireland was negotiable.
follow
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Elizabeth followed precedents set by her ancestors in selling Crown rights in some forests for ready money.
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Here he was following a precedent created by Lanfranc, who had already consecrated bishops of Dublin in 1074 and 1085.
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The Soviet Union could soon choose to follow these precedents .
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There is direct precedent in the first case, and he knows that sound strategy might require him to follow that precedent.
set
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But it is Michael Jackson's deal which may set precedents the music business will later regret.
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The unusual video arrangement will not set a presidential precedent .
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Guidelines have been laid, standards are set , and precedents have been established.
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School officials say releasing those kinds of notes would set a bad precedent and inhibit communication among teachers and administrators.
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The decision sets an important precedent .
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Once again Edward had set precedents and opened opportunities for extensive royal exploitation subsequently.
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Employment lawyer Robert Rosati says courts are setting a troublesome precedent when they let such suits to go forward.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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The public will not be outraged if it is told that precedents will be confined to their facts.
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The unusual video arrangement will not set a presidential precedent .
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There are precedents on both sides of the argument.
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There were, of course, literary precedents for this.
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Therefore, this could hardly be regarded as a binding precedent .
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We accept our responsibility not to retreat from interpreting the full meaning of the covenant in light of all of our precedents.