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NATO's intervention in Kosovo is a precedent that US Secretary of State Colin Powell used to justify the war with Iraq.
As a result of that perilous precedent, Russia no longer feels bound by the unwritten agreement.
Though Yellen is a Democrat originally appointed by President Barack Obama, there is strong precedent for Trump to re-appoint her.
That set a precedent that would be replayed in repeated interventions in the Caribbean, Central America, and Mexico from the turn of the century through the early 1930’s, as well as in interventions in China and Russia.
IFFIm provides a convincing precedent for the current crisis.
It is not as if there is no precedent for this approach; throughout history, governments have issued bonds in response to national emergencies.
There is a precedent for this.
There is, however, a recent European precedent: Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi.
But, while Hildebrand’s resignation should serve as a precedent to be followed by central bankers – indeed, all public officials – everywhere, the circumstances surrounding his departure smell much worse than what caused it.
Perhaps most important, if Chinese bullying enables it to ignore international rules and norms, a very dangerous precedent will have been set.
There is a precedent for this: In 2005, the US championed World Bank financing for Liberia, which at the time had significant IMF debt after emerging from civil war.
With his white mother and his African father, he does not fit any African-American precedent.
But, by resorting so extensively to drones as a counterterrorism instrument, Obama provided a pernicious precedent for the decision to drop the MOAB.
Making Russia a key player in the solution, instead of part of the problem, could benefit all sides, and establish a precedent for cooperation on other global issues.
The PiS is seizing full control not only over judicial decision-making in the present, but also over the past two decades of legal precedent.
Although Cyprus is too small to matter for global financial markets, the crisis there could turn out to be an important precedent guiding how European policymakers deal with future banking problems.
Some suggest that sky governance follow the precedent set by the electromagnetic spectrum.
To achieve this goal, however, he will have to break from the precedent set by his predecessors, who always categorically ruled out a political union.
Another group, citing historical precedent, warns that beggar-thy-neighbor trade measures can quickly spiral out of control, taking a heavy toll on living standards.
The only precedent for this since 1950 was the 37-month period from September 1974 to September 1977, which launched the worst inflation the US has seen in the last century.
The European Union embraced this governance mechanism long ago, and even within ASEAN there is precedent for majority-vote decision-making, particularly on geopolitical and security issues.
To be sure, no single problem compares with the Cold War at its height, but the sheer number and complexity of difficult issues is without precedent in modern times.
This is a simple and practical idea, and there is a precedent for it.
There is precedent for fiscal leniency in the EU.
There is a precedent for Trumponomics’ potential benefits for Europe.
There is a recent precedent for this: from 1985 to 1987, holders of dollar-denominated assets took a similar, but much smaller, bath.
But, at least in the case of Libya, a vital precedent has been set.
In some cases, governments do not even bother to create a legal precedent for their actions.
Or is it a unique case that should not be viewed as a precedent for either the Arab world in general or the Maghreb in particular?
Colombia should now regain its full sovereignty and signal to all Latin American would-be insurgent groups that its peace will not set a precedent for them to gain political power by stealth.
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