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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.

The case of Donoghue vs. Stevenson that followed set a very important legal precedent: Stevenson, the manufacturer of the ginger beer, was held to have a clear duty of care towards May Donoghue, even though there was no contract between them, and, indeed, she hadn't even bought the drink.

And as the case wound its way through the lower courts, the Loving case was repeatedly cited as precedent.

But scientists should surely be precautionary about experiments that generate conditions without precedent in the natural world.

I don't care to set a new precedent.

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.

And actually, there is an important precedent for such a pause from the 1970s, when scientists got together to call for a moratorium on the use of molecular cloning, until the safety of that technology could be tested carefully and validated.

So is there any precedent for such a rapid adoption of a new technology?

There is a historical precedent for it as well.

There really wasn't a precedent for this kind of space, so we looked around the globe and found examples of community meeting houses.

So, the flow of resources from the commodity booms to the bottom billion are without precedent.

And in the interest of full disclosure, what I am proposing for my dead body is not strictly legal at the moment, but it's not without precedent.

It has precedent.

He believed it set a dangerous precedent for further censorship, and was reminded of the destruction of the Library of Alexandria and the book-burning of Fascist regimes.

So these are words that suddenly start to appear out of nowhere, so they're kind of, you know, memes that start taking off, that didn't have a lot of historical precedent before.

The grand opening was celebrated with 100 days of pageantry and gladiatorial games, setting the precedent for programming that included parades, musical performances, public executions, and of course, gladiatorial combat.

There's no precedent for this in cancer medicine.

It was perhaps this precedent that inspired Juana’s lifelong confidence.

There's enough precedent out there to show that a sustainable, community-friendly development can still make a fortune.

I think it's the only precedent in which money has ever been stopped from being used.

There is less precedent for that, but that could easily be worked out.

Early response is critical, early detection is a condition precedent.

This is the reason why the private detective, who is somehow ''voyeur'' is the happiest character in the movie, because he earns a living thanks to the system, he takes advantage of this situation'' This is, in substance, the main thing that I and the swiss public, in my opinion, pointed out in this movie, and that we did not pay attention to some inconsistencies regarding the characters in the movie which the precedent reviewer pointed out with great accuracy and humor.

There is only one precedent for non-EU members being able to negotiate access to the internal market equivalent to that enjoyed by EU members.

Although it is far from an exact precedent, the historic 1972 Shanghai Communiqué signed by China and the US, which allowed both governments to “agree to disagree” on many issues while committing themselves to dialogue at the highest levels, offers a promising model.

But any “last stand” type of warfare refuses to recognize the possibility of a future war for which it may be a precedent.

There is a precedent for this: when the US closed Subic Bay Naval Base and Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines, the Chinese military immediately stepped up its activity around the Spratly Islands, which are recognized as Filipino territory but which China is claiming vehemently.

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