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Neither is an easy task, and the precedent of incompetence established by Japan’s Democratic Party since it defeated the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party may make some South Korean voters reluctant to abandon the familiar and battle-tested GNP.
Indeed, after Thomas Sargent won the Nobel Prize in Economics last year, he cited it as a precedent in his acceptance speech.
That compromise (which also led to the US capital’s relocation to the District of Columbia, on the border of Virginia and Maryland) may serve as a precedent for limiting Germany’s liabilities if Eurobonds, or some other debt-mutualization scheme, are introduced.
Subsequently reimposing border controls within the supposedly border-free Schengen Area set a terrible precedent, prompting Germany’s neighbors to do likewise.
The closest precedent for Trump may be Italy’s former prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, who was a well-known media mogul before deciding to take advantage of the disintegration of Italy’s postwar party system in the early 1990s to create his own political movement.
It is a real innovation, with no prior precedent.
What I propose is novel: it would leverage the IMF's $30 billion loan to Brazil tenfold (and set a useful precedent).
Since this is designed to defuse an exceptional crisis, it would not become a precedent that encourages frivolous attacks on Latin America's democratically elected governments.
This sets a dangerous precedent, for it creates a powerful incentive – winner takes all, loser goes to prison – for ruthlessness.
Creating a precedent for the democratization of post-Soviet space is a nightmare scenario for Putin and his cronies.
There is some precedent for an Indian military intervention in the Maldives.
There is precedent for such an approach.
An instructive precedent is Slovakia, whose “velvet” divorce from the Czech Republic at the beginning of 1993 led to the creation of a new national currency.
Of course, if the press Christmas party was the only precedent Trump and his team broke, no one would be too distraught.
The JCPOA was not simply a precedent for further agreements; it actually demanded them.
What is unique, and particularly far-reaching, is the precedent Brexit sets for other countries (or regions) to “exit” from their respective political and economic arrangements – whether it is Scotland and Northern Ireland in the UK, or Catalonia in Spain.
In 2017, he will complete his first five-year term, and precedent permits him only one more five-year term.
Asahi worried about the precedent set when Koizumi sent Japan’s Self-Defense Forces to Iraq, albeit in a non-combatant role, to please US President George W. Bush.
Could this be a precedent for Britain?
But a better historical precedent for current conditions is Black Monday: October 19, 1987.
Unfortunately, the existing framework for preventing money laundering does not offer an encouraging precedent.
In addition to the dangerous precedent that it would set, the double-freeze solution has two fundamental weaknesses.
If concessions to Greece create a precedent that other countries might exploit, so be it.
Securing the consent of only a handful of local residents simply is not good enough.Because Target Malaria’s Burkina Faso experiments are among the first of their kind, they will serve as a powerful precedent for similar experiments worldwide.
Because Target Malaria’s Burkina Faso experiments are among the first of their kind, they will serve as a powerful precedent for similar experiments worldwide.
This has created a worrying precedent.
A world in which every country wants a weaker exchange rate is not without precedent.
To be sure, the Brown precedent is not entirely analogous, for there the Supreme Court gave weight to foreign policy considerations in just the way that the federal executive had urged.
The much greater harm done by the terrorist attack cannot be ignored; but when a democratic government starts to revoke citizenship and make people stateless, it sets a precedent for authoritarian regimes that wish to rid themselves of dissidents by expelling them, as the former Soviet Union did to the poet and later Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky – among many others.
Although supporters of Kosovo’s independence argue that it sets no international precedent, China’s rulers fear otherwise.
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