Yet it sets a disturbing precedent of ends justifying means when those involve criminal theft.
But while the precedent of abdication has set in the Netherlands, it hasn't yet taken hold elsewhere.
But the only sure way to avoid it is to follow the precedent of James K. Polk and Rutherford B.
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Considering the precedent of ignoring complaints, Richards could not have possibly known that one of the men would lose his job.
Can Apple be the first technology-product producer in history to avoid the precedent of declining prices and narrowing margins over time?
Countries such as Spain, with independent-minded provinces of their own, do not like the precedent of such places going their own way.
The DC Circuit Court quoted the Supreme Court precedent of Freytag v.
It appears that Speaker Boehner prefers to preserve the precedent of a president going to war unilaterally for the next Republican chief executive.
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First, there was no precedent of success for such investments, no template to follow, which should have led to more rather than less caution.
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But James Stein at the University of Wisconsin, Madison says he worries about the precedent of taking such snapshot views before the study is completed.
The economic impact of Greece itself is far less important than the possibility of a precedent of a nation opting out of the shared currency.
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In the spring of 1797, at John Adams's inauguration as the second president of the U.S., Washington set the precedent of a peaceful transfer of power.
We now have a scary precedent of just how bad things can go in a major European market when a nasty consumer recession and an unemployment surge coincide.
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There is a precedent of sorts: in his beer company, he has achieved a balance of terror with his partner, Heineken, with each side owning a 37.5% stake.
That helps get around the uncomfortable precedent of Wickard v.
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There has been a precedent of Finance people moving into various business disciplines outside of Finance, but today, knowing IT is as important as knowing Finance in my estimation.
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But Williams took an opposing view and pointed out to the precedent of 19-year-old rookie Jaime Alguersuari who had to race for Toro Rosso in Hungary without any testing practice.
Nevertheless, it is likely that the threat of terrorism and organised crime, and the precedent of existing methods for tracking money, will be strong counter-arguments in favour of tracking technology.
The bill ignores the fact that the precedent of such "forgiveness" would greatly reduce the incentive for other countries to whom U.S. taxpayers have extended loans to repay their debts.
He cites the precedent of Lionel Jospin, who demanded a renegotiation of the fiscal pact's unlamented predecessor, the stability and growth pact, when he became France's Socialist prime minister in 1997.
George W. Bush perhaps set the precedent of appointing his chief rival within the Republican party, Colin Powell, to secretary of state as a way to secure the shrewd general's skills and to politically neutralize him.
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There is a precedent of sorts set by the Supreme Court-approved Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, under which schools that don't provide disabled students with an "appropriate" education are required to pay their tuition in private schools.
The court considered the precedent of Sony's Betamax video-recording technology, which had faced a lawsuit brought by Disney and Universal in 1984 calling for a ban on the system because it would allow infringement of their copyrighted material.
With the precedent of a supranational organization firmly set by the European Coal and Steel Community, Western Europe moved forward again in 1957 with the launch of the European Economic Community--the Common Market, as it came to be called.
The first option reinforces the precedent of backing the stability of the common currency at any bailout cost but ignores the rise of German bailout fatigue in an election year, while the second option threatens to break that hard-fought stability apart.
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Ministers are uneasy about the move on several fronts, some related to the degree of opposition within their own party, others to the strength of local feeling, including the Daily Post campaign, and the precedent of actively moving the service out of the Welsh health system and into the English one.
Because as - we - there have been nonnative speakers of English who have come here before - you know, Italians, you know, the French, et cetera - and they do managed to assimilate over - so is there something specifically that you think about the Latino culture that makes that less likely than the historical precedent of other groups - Germans?
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