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Perhaps more convincing, there seems to be historical precedent for such a partnership.
The precedent of Greece, hardly a poster child for European accession, seems especially relevant when applied to its northern neighbors, which are similarly plagued with high rates of corruption and unemployment.
There was no precedent for this in American or international law.
There is little historical precedent for the peaceful breakup of a state, with an exception like Czechoslovakia’s consensual split in 1993 occurring in unique circumstances.
It would also set a precedent that could be extended to all of those in Russia and other countries who regularly violate human rights, and not just those rights concerning physical inviolability.
The bullying of senior Justice Department and FBI officials by House committees has been without precedent since the anti-communist witch hunts of the 1950s.
Since WWII, Europeans have found it unacceptable to subject any group to collective punishment or mass expulsion on the basis of ethnicity, so, in casting aside fundamental rights in the name of security, rounding up Roma sets a worrying precedent.
We are appealing to donors not just to create thousands of school places for desperately needy children, but also to establish a precedent for the 20 million other children driven by violent conflict into displaced-persons camps and shantytowns.
So, before the blowback begins, policymakers would do well to heed the strong precedent for excluding sovereign debt from a US investment treaty.
Public debt must be lengthened - unpleasant, but it has ample precedent.
Many, however, reject the US precedent on the grounds that today’s problems are too dissimilar from those encountered then.
The 1997 Kyoto Protocol marked a major step forward in efforts to head off the most disastrous consequences of climate change, establishing a precedent for legally binding limits on emissions.
But British firms’ experiences being buffeted by turbulent politics in emerging economies are not an encouraging precedent.
Prodi’s appointment also sets a new precedent in promoting the President of the Commission to a position head and shoulders above his colleagues.
Indeed, no such precedent exists: there has never been a peaceful transfer of power in any of the Arab League’s 22 member states.
This precedent will not be easy to roll back, and will have a far-reaching positive influence on China’s political progress.
Thanks to the US, which strong-armed the 45 countries of the Nuclear Suppliers’ Group into swallowing their concerns that special treatment for India could constitute a precedent for rogue nuclear aspirants like Pakistan, North Korea, and Iran, there is now an “Indian exception.”
Chile’s government set a precedent in the region by meticulously mapping citizens’ priorities on the environment and climate.
Chile has set a positive precedent in the developing world by carrying out extensive consultations on its national climate commitment for Paris.
Ignoring previous precedent and all economic common sense, he threw international financial markets into turmoil.
An inclusive framework of conflict resolution in Syria is particularly critical today, as it would establish a precedent for cooperation among regional powers, especially Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Failure in Bosnia, would signal’s NATO’s debility; success is no more than an encouraging precedent.
If Syria’s chemical weapons are destroyed, the agreement will have established an invaluable precedent concerning the behavior of great powers in a time of crisis.
Incredibly, the US is now soaking up roughly two-thirds of all global net saving, a situation without historical precedent.
If Russia has trumped the West, the precedent for Georgia and other weak post-Soviet states would be a dire one.
He may well have maintained that stance had China not established the ADIZ, which set an ominous new precedent by usurping international airspace over the East China Sea, including areas that China does not control.
Fortunately, there is a multilateral option and an existing precedent.
The only real nationwide winner, the Five Star Movement (Movimento 5 Stelle, or M5S) led by comedian-turned-politician Beppe Grillo, is a political phenomenon with no precedent in modern European electoral history.
For example, the precedent that the US set in a 1984 International Court of Justice (ICJ) case filed by Nicaragua still resonates in China, underscoring that might remains right in international relations.
China’s new ADIZ, while aimed at solidifying its claims to territories held by Japan and South Korea, is similarly provocative, because it extends to areas that China does not control, setting a dangerous precedent in international relations.
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