Most of the Senate's precedents, of course, are based on the impeachment trials of judges.

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The High Court's precedents say Congress can attach conditions to federal funds, akin to a contract, but Congress cannot use the spending power to force states to sign it.

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Those who took the decision to pull the ballet were following their government's accommodating precedents.

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As a result, few prosecutors can read Dutch, the language of Indonesia's most important legal precedents.

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Treasury Chief Henry Paulson's decision follows bad precedents made during the Great Depression.

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Indeed, many Sierra Leoneans are proud of the court's work and the precedents that it might set for other African countries.

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Its provisions are grounded in precedents currently governing the allocation of U.S. foreign assistance.

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Tiaoqui says restructuring the power industry will reduce rates, citing precedents in Europe, New Zealand and the U.S., where changes resulted in competitive pricing for electricity.

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All of these have past precedents for fourteen hundred years and are well documented in Islam's own historical texts.

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Now what this has done, though, because this sort of - or this new approach, went on for a few generations, is it's created a Western worldview that does not see the earlier precedents or the past history.

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Part of the United Nations Environment Programme's China Rural Energy Enterprises Development (CREED) initiative, the program has successful precedents in five African nations -- Senegal, Mali, Ghana, Zambia and Tanzania -- and northeast Brazil.

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Andronikou as the club's current administrator and would-be CVA supervisor would be expected to take the lead here but precedents from previous football administrations are not encouraging.

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Brazil's legal system derives from Roman law, in which judges generally base their decisions less on the precedents set by their predecessors and more on their understanding of a written code.

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In debate before Thursday's votes, Rep. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, said the Senate version includes legal precedents of expanded sovereignty that could be subject to court challenge.

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