Quotes about Precedent

It could set a precedent for other pieces of property in that neighborhood. And other nearby properties are on the market or could soon be on the market.

Bob Fredericks

We wonder how you stop the next project. I know when you have the size of banks involved that are doing this, it does set a precedent and who knows where it will lead?

Tom Stevens

[Environmentalists also denounced the emerging proposal.] Here comes the mother of all environmental rollbacks, ... This could become a blank check for big polluters. It would also be a terrible precedent.

Frank O'donnell

Here comes the mother of all environmental rollbacks. This could become a blank check for big polluters. It would also be a terrible precedent.

Frank O'donnell

This could establish a precedent... many people would like to know where the criminal justices would come down [on the lawsuit].

Shawn Crispin

There is a potential for the liability of Medford and the Medford Water Commission. Medford Water Commission can not simply ignore precedent of supplying districts, new or old.

Cliff Beebe

The Cajuns uprooted from Canada and moved as a group to Louisiana. Vietnamese communities have reassembled after moving much farther. There is precedent for doing this.

Craig Colten

We voted for you to vote on these things. This will set a precedent because anything that's done once can be done again.

Frank Blake

This is not a paradigm shift. This doesn't say anything about the swing in power between management and labor. This is a circumstance that pertains to the nature of negotiations between Northwest and one of its unions. It doesn't indicate a pattern or precedent that is likely to continue with other unions.

Douglas M. Steenland

We see real flaws in the method. We're not dealing with a system that has a lot of precedent and has a lot of transparency.

Paul Laviolette

If the past is any precedent, they have planned safe houses and lying low, letting the first dragnet pass over head.

Ken Conboy

It sets a bad precedent to focus on one food, as if it were a magic bullet. What this will do is encourage people to stuff themselves on oat bran products or oat products at the expense of some other good food.

David Schardt

There's really no precedent for Viagra to know exactly what it means for future sales.

Richard Stover

When you do it for one doctor and don't do it for anyone else ... it sets a terrible precedent.

Robert Bernstein

It's totally without precedent as far as I can recollect. It says, 'If we don't like what you're saying, we'll cut off your money'.

Jerry Franklin

Even when Lincoln hanged draft dodgers, he made public his deviation from the law and imposed martial law. There is no analogy and no precedent for clandestine surveillance of domestic telecommunications without a court order.

Philip Russell

This is the last thing we need. This is a dangerous precedent for EU-China relations.

Alisdair Gray

I hate to be an alarmist, but we're in a situation without much precedent. With the gasoline market as tight as it is, people complain about $3 gas but they'll put $5 gas in their car if they suddenly think it's not available.

David Pursell

I guess I would say there is some precedent. Those are a couple of examples.

Charles Morris

As an industry we feel it is not a good precedent to fund a government program.

James Mulva

There appears to be a historical precedent to the Peace and Freedom Party being back on the ballot.

Jennifer Kerns

As far as the U.S. Open is concerned, we believe there's been a precedent set in connection with the use of Cyclops, which has only been used on four of the 16 match courts. We've discussed this with the players as well. They feel comfortable with the fact that the Hawk-Eye technology will only be used on a limited number of courts.

Jim Curley

This issue is precedent-setting for every border region across Canada.

Bob Mills

He claims it was precedent, but as an experienced judge, he knows better. Clearly, this is a ruling by a judge who is obviously an activist who legislates from the bench to enact his own agenda.

Kay Daly

There is no precedent for this.

Harold Holzer

It is inappropriate and without precedent to second-guess a pipeline's day-to-day operations.

William Wise

It's possible the money boys and fancy lobbyists will win, but it's also possible we'll win. This will establish the precedent that we're really all in this together and if you're going to do business in New York, you have to meet our basic standards.

Dan Cantor

The Spirit of the Mission Award is given for work done in New Mexico that has brought about precedent-setting changes with a national impact that advance the animal rights movement.

Lisa Jennings

That would have set a new precedent. We've overemphasized historically the lawsuit tool.

Peter Aengst

What precedent are we setting in doing this for one industry and not for others?

Lloyd Doggett

Having shown that the nut can be cracked, this has set some sort of precedent.

George Hodgson

That now takes precedent over how you do on the field as a senior.

Greg Biggins

We've got to do an analysis on it. The first deal we strike sets the precedent.

Tom Savage

Since eBay's argument requires overruling long-established legal precedent, we look forward to the consideration of the Supreme Court in this matter.

Scott Robertson

This opinion manufactures jurisdiction that does not exist, ... We have no precedent that supports this rationale for jurisdiction.

Wendell Hall

We didn't want to set a precedent where an acquittal is grounds for an automatic reinstatement.

Warden Ramon Rustin

It is bad policy and it sets a bad precedent.

William Thornton

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Thomas Paine

We understand in choosing one charity over another, there's always going to be the fact that we made a choice. The only reason I think that we did that here is because we had the precedent of doing it and the Red Cross are first responders.

Deborah Hagan

It could be precedent setting. It will have a major effect on the community. What I'm concerned about is the impact on the town's resources.

Joseph Bridge

There's no established law on this issue. It's very likely this will be a precedent-setting case.

Richard Ackerman

There's no real precedent there for collective punishment or commissary funds. Those are going to be a long battle.

Robert Newman

We are particularly excited that such an historic, factual, and truth-based decision is now a controlling precedent for the federal Court of Appeals that rules on all Michigan cases.

Gary Glenn

It sets a bad precedent. All provisions of the building and zoning code must be met.

Nick Tinari

We should not create a precedent when NATO acts outside the territories of its member-states without a relevant decision by the U.N. Security Council.

Yevgeny Primakov

Being so young, we got there a lot quicker than people thought we would and that set a precedent for what we are about.

Brian Rector

We've set a precedent that you've got to step up and match us if you think that you're going to win.

Jimbo Davis

These Arizona bills must not become law. They would set a frightening precedent.

Pamela Madsen

I realize we aren't going to win. But in a sense, everything we do now will set a precedent, set traditions and forge our identity.

James Bowden

We want to set a precedent. We have an amazing staff and we want this to be the best symposium.

Arash Massoudi

There is no precedent for this, but there is no question who put this situation in motion. If they did not have their illegal strike, there is no question that this would not have happened.

Christopher Mcgrath

This is the precedent. This will probably be the template that other cable operators keep their eye on.

Ed Hatch