If America sets a precedent of using only American made products then other countries will follow suit.

如果美国开了只用美国产品的先例，那么其他国家也会效仿。

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Spain and Italy would not be the only places to fret about the precedent of rich regions pulling away from poorer ones.

富裕的地区从较贫困的地区分离出来这个先例，西班牙和意大利并不是唯一对此操心的国家。

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The Smokehouse reinterprets the roots of the wood tradition by reaching to the historic precedent of heavy timber techniques.

熏制室通过追溯古老的重型木材技术重新诠释了木建筑传统的本源。

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"Any discussion of settlements, any discussion of the issues of living in East Jerusalem, should not take precedent over the primary focus of import which is the growing threat of a nuclear Iran,"

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The only precedent Milton would have had even for the idea of line numbers would have been the great ancient classics, the magnificent Renaissance editions of Homer and Virgil.

弥尔顿曾经的唯一一个范例，甚至是印上行数的想法,都将是伟大的古老杰作，是荷马和维吉尔伟大的再生版。

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"You might take this as a general principle, that if you have revolutionary transformations, it's extremely difficult to go back to legal,legitimized, constitutional transfers of power that revolutionary settlements, in fact,are quite dangerous as a precedent.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

Yet it sets a disturbing precedent of ends justifying means when those involve criminal theft.

ECONOMIST: European tax diplomacy

But while the precedent of abdication has set in the Netherlands, it hasn't yet taken hold elsewhere.

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By setting a precedent of legitimizing the secession of disaffected minorities, it weakens the long-term viability of multi-ethnic states.

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