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#precedent

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #precedent




Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.


Bill Kristol


#inaction #our #poor #precedent #respect

I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based.


Jonathan Dimbleby


#based #biography #entirely #expectation #had

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Marc Andreessen


#capital #combination #contract #culture #deep

Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.


Eric Alterman


#current #current situation #degree #distrust #exacerbated

Nigel might have an earlier date, but I think it's unprecedented from my memory. So it is a reminder to everybody that the public can move very rapidly on some issues and therefore what looks settled may not be.


Jim Bolger


#earlier #everybody #i #i think #issues

The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.


Herbert Croly


#combines #hand #higher #historical #ideal

In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on reproductive rights.


Sandra Fluke


#been #focused #house #last #legislation

One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.


Junius


#another #constitute #creates #doctrine #fact

Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision.


Herman Kahn


#coming #conditions #criteria #decision #domestic

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.


Irving R. Kaufman


#atrophies #available #becomes #cases #daily






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