Miranda was rather mollified by and pleased with the turn of events, although she did not intend to show it, or give anybody any reason to expect that this expression of hospitality was to serve for a precedent on any subsequent occasion.
Whatever trials follow, whatever pains of sickness or shades of death, the glory precedent still shines through, cheering the keen anguish, and tinging the deep cloud.
To let Cecily off, after her mad defiance, would be to establish a revolutionary precedent.
It was not safe to be too confident, even about the best of men; an apostle had fallen, and wept bitterly afterwards; and though Peter's denial was not a close precedent, his repentance was likely to be.
It did occur to him that he could perhaps get some help by praying for it; but as the prayers he said every evening were forms learned by heart, he rather shrank from the novelty and irregularity of introducing an extempore passage on a topic of petition for which he was not aware of any precedent.
"That reminds me," he went on, thrusting a hand into his side-pocket, with an easy air, "if I wanted a precedent, you know—but we never want a precedent for the right thing—but there is Chatham, now; I can't say I should have supported Chatham, or Pitt, the younger Pitt—he was not a man of ideas, and we want ideas, you know.
Casaubon would have trained me for, where the doing would be all laid down by a precedent too rigid for me to react upon.
He had now achieved this, and from all who did not think it a bad precedent, his honorable exertions had won him due esteem; but in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.
There was no precedent.
Not in the precedent.
Spokesman Caroline Cerny said: 'The ruling on Coco Pops Granola provides an important precedent for junk food marketing.
But critics warned his decision to end his life solely on the grounds of old age set a dangerous precedent.
Not in the precedent.
Dr David Berg, a senior lecturer in education at the University of Otago, says there is a growing precedent for alternative "bush" schools worldwide, especially in Scandinavia, where some kindergarten children go ice-fishing during the school day.
Potentially, it sets a precedent for introducing China-specific versions of other Google apps and services in the future, although the company declined to comment when we asked it about that directly.
) Kings and queens are welcome to change the last names of their family at will, since it's a matter of precedent rather than an official decree.
If a higher court takes the opposite view — either in an appeal of this case or in a separate but similar case — the precedent could be reversed.
"The alliance will help strengthen Wanda's power to influence the global film industry, and set a good precedent for Chinese film producers in their international investment," the company said in a statement.
It added that Brussels' action set "an undesirable precedent that could lead to other tax authorities .
The decision is being seen as a precedent for protecting the privacy of cloud computing services.
