#precedent

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it. ↗

— Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

#brought #forward #founded #itself #past

As federal lawmakers, we have a responsibility to set a precedent for energy efficient practices. ↗

— Greg Walden

#energy #federal #lawmakers #practices #precedent

President Obama and his radical feminist enforcers have had it in for Catholic medical providers from the get-go. It's about time all people of faith fought back against this unprecedented encroachment on religious liberty. First, they came for the Catholics. Who's next? ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#against #back #came #catholic #catholics

Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#google #important #important things #internet #lawsuits

I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#am #britain #brutally #determined #honest

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#beings #enterprise #every #fellow #fellow human beings

We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations, and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#any #blessed #designed #done #economic

From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#america #available #based #buildings #century

Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken. ↗

— Nate Silver

#election #every #four #new #precedent

The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#establish #excesses #far #first #first thing