precedent
先例
definition
noun
there are substantial precedents for using interactive media in training
an earlier event or action that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered in subsequent similar circumstances.
adjective
a precedent case
preceding in time, order, or importance.
translation of 'precedent'
noun
先例,
前例,
例
adjective
前述的
example
We fear there may well be a 'precedent' set for the rest of her school life.
I shall add to the definition of humanly free agents, that they are agents whose choices do not have fully deterministic 'precedent' causes.
I want the kind of 'precedent' I have seen in Europe followed here.
However, based on 'precedent' the cards are stacked against them.
If 'precedent' holds, it won't be publishers of tax-help books alone who benefit.
It is the sort of 'precedent' we are seeing in other legislation.
Once these spaces are let go to development there would be no stopping further development because there would be a 'precedent' set.
The court should never view a foreign legal decision as a 'precedent' in any way.
His first and main ground is that the Inspector had no basis for his conclusion on the 'precedent' effect.
Critics say that the judges should have let the 1963 'precedent' stand, even if it was bad.
If this court hears the case, they say, any decision would set a 'precedent' and would have ramifications across the country.
Once a power to detain is held to depend on 'precedent' fact, then of course anyone subjected to it can properly invoke habeas corpus.
Furthermore, this is a case of general importance and it may well set a 'precedent' .
The public sentiment would have been the necessity for humanitarian considerations to overcome 'precedent' this once.
I guess the point I want you to consider is what sort of 'precedent' we are establishing here, because it is important for the future.
He said it was without 'precedent' and unfair - especially as the police had not been called in.
Is this a 'precedent' we wish to set for other great regional powers as well?
This would be an example of 'precedent' activism but not separation-of-powers activism.
People claimed that the 'precedent' set out by the sleeper hit in 1998 was finally superseded.
I am going to break with the 'precedent' set by the previous speaker and actually talk about the bill before the House.
It's a great adrenaline rush to set 'precedent' or prior learning on its ear.
The result is a game of spot the allusion, with the final mass exodus dictated more by Chekhovian 'precedent' than any kind of political logic.
So the planners want to look at what 'precedent' they are setting.
Historical 'precedent' shows pubs have changed their names through the years, usually for good reasons.
This is both illogical and a 'precedent' we should not allow to be set.
What a pleasing 'precedent' any unlikely victory would set!
We all have to go through the same nonsense, which seems crazy considering the 'precedent' set at the first hearing.
All that has happened is that there is a set of 'precedent' requirements of a procedural kind before a court case can be commenced.
I just want to go back to some of the 'precedent' issues of the settlement process.
A lower court cannot set 'precedent' , and must follow any higher courts decision.
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