How to use "precedent" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "precedent" in popular movie and book plots

  • A conviction would produce a precedent that would devastate the Diplomatic Corps by making every diplomat a legitimate target.  - A Planet for Texans
  • Fifteen other intelligent species have done so on precedent occasions and become symbiotes, new members of the colony.  - Swarm (novelette)
  • But her refusal to kill and her naïve questioning set a troublesome precedent - a challenge to Ma'aza’s authority.  - Heart of Fire (film)
  • This sets up Carrie as the precedent of a main character in Sex and the City.  - The Carrie Diaries
  • Gray breaks with precedent and sentences Ted to three months hard labour on a neighbouring island.  - The Beachcomber (film)
  • She had fallen asleep there while trying to find a legal precedent to remove Sara from the Bangs home.  - The Well-Worn Lock
  • The court rules in favour of the Kerrigans, and their case becomes a landmark precedent on the subject.  - The Castle (1997 Australian film)
  • It would set a bad precedent otherwise.  - The Uprooted Pine
  • She has concerns about what effect her werewolf nature will have on the unborn child, something with no recorded precedent in Pack knowledge.  - Broken (Armstrong novel)
  • To the president's concern that this could create precedent for other veterans to come forward, Toby replies "I can only hope, sir".  - In Excelsis Deo
  • He opts not to move out, citing an old legal precedent which permits a couple to live under the same roof while going through a divorce.  - The War of the Roses (novel)
  • They find a legal precedent that could help, but discover that two other kids, Lester and Eliza, have beaten them to it.  - The Day the Violence Died
  • Obrien knew of this obscure precedent and made it the cornerstone of the Plan.  - Monument (novel)
  • The ghosts are without precedent in the galactic library.  - Sundiver
  • Pai feels that she can become the leader (although there's no precedent for a woman to do so), and is determined to succeed.  - Whale Rider

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