Precedent
in example sentence
At the British Museum, we were warned that the Zuni case would establish a dangerous
precedent
for bigger disputes, such as the Parthenon Marbles, claimed by Greece.
More example sentences with word precedent
There was no legal precedent, no cultural precedent, no technical way of doing this.
We have a
precedent
for this.
There is a
precedent
for technology-enabled service that has been initiated by politicians in multiple countries and has been hugely successful: national lotteries.
The issue is that this is set to engender an environmental problem that is without
precedent.
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