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Перевод: precedent

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предшествующий;
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прецедент

Тезаурус:

1. Although greater attention tends to be lavished upon Leo Fender's 6-string designs, in the time between the releases of his Telecaster and Stratocaster, Leo demonstrated his ability to create without precedent, inventing from scratch the electric bass guitar.
2. A precedent for this was years ago when the famous collector of Greek origin, George Kostakis, was allowed to leave the Soviet Union with a considerable part of his collection of Russian Avant-garde after he had given the most interesting pieces to the Tretyakov Gallery (for part of his memoirs, see The Art Newspaper, No. 21, October 1992, pp. 20-;22).
3. There is some precedent for allowing the extra costs of subsistence when working away from home, by virtue of Statement of Practice SP16/80, which specifically applies to lorry drivers.
4. The second point is that precisely because legal conservatism values precedent, and will overturn prior cases only rarely, those who hope for great sea-changes in the law with the appointment of politically friendly judges are often disappointed.
5. For example, this occurred at the start of the new Vineyard churches in England, but there is of course biblical precedent in the case of the tent making Paul!
6. Of course they had some value, in an informal way, as precedents, but the precedent here might easily be not that non dubito is now admissible, but that some relaxation of wording is allowed where family property expectations are involved.
7. Lawyers are already claiming there is no real precedent, because the Japanese being compensated are those who personally experienced internment, whereas no US black can claim direct and personal damage by "the peculiar institution".
8. As Dicey says, "the appeal to precedent is in the law courts merely a useful fiction by which judicial decision conceals its transformation into judicial legislation".
9. Such a split in the Tory ranks had no precedent, and would only become imaginable when public outrage at Government policy was aroused to such a pitch of fury that large numbers of Conservative backbenchers felt obliged to break ranks.
10. The housing market is fighting to regain stability after a period, without post-war precedent, of both real and nominal falls in prices (see chart).
11. But there is at least one precedent.
12. "It sets a dangerous precedent.
13. The US maintains that it supports the OAS charter, that it is acting to protect the integrity of the Panama Canal treaties, and that Latin America has no cause to fear that the invasion of Panama will be used as a precedent.