For a start, Ethiopia would be too worried about the effect this precedent might have on its own lawless Somali clans.
This precedent should be followed with respect to New START, as well.
"We deplore that this resolution was used to introduce this precedent, " Mexican Ambassador to the United Nations Adolfo Aguilar Zinser said after the session.
The judge said setting this precedent would clog the court system with charges for every player who threw an elbow under a basket or anyone who ever threw a punch on an ice rink.
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This precedent leads directly to national DNA databases.
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After this gloomy precedent, Portugal's political class is feeling decidedly nervous about plans to hold further plebiscites.
Lula says the grand consensus he seeks is modelled on this Spanish precedent.
This strategy has precedent, says David Risinger of Morgan Stanley, but the scale and structure of Pfizer's scheme is unmatched.
And people say some really aggressive and scary things to them, and I think they are frustrated and worried that this sets a precedent.
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So, of course, we have to ask: did someone use this as a precedent for the Lehman appendix because it is the quarterly loss template?
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"Today's back and forth in the market has do with whether this sets a precedent for other bailouts, or is a one-off, " said Wasif Latif, vice president of equity investments at USAA Investments in San Antonio.
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There is a precedent for this kind of major public-private partnership in American history, he says.
As it happens, there is a very recent precedent for this sort of effective apology.
There's a precedent for this line of thinking, to which any Horatio Alger fan can attest.
It seems like the WiiU set the precedent for this being essential in the next generation of consoles.
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Of course, the market hates taxes and many think this could set a precedent for other countries in Europe to follow suit.
Some have raised the impeachment of judges, including Judge Nixon, when they have been conducted for perjury as a precedent for this committee.
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If this was the founding precedent, the deepest argument for the irrelevancy of the declaration of war is to be found in nuclear weapons.
The closest precedent for this conundrum comes from 1995, the first year that baseball added the wild-card teams and an extra round of the playoffs.
This may set a precedent for similar agreements on the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya, although Uzbekistan remains opposed to anything of the sort.
The administration says there's solid legal precedent for this tactic.
If you look at any historical precedent for this kind of action to be taken, this kind of collective action by our international partners, there is no comparison at all.
Legal precedent for this was set in 1977, when the Mescalero Apache Tribe of New Mexico, seeking to replace dwindling timber harvesting revenues from their 185, 000-hectare reservation, began selling hunting licenses with terms more liberal than the state's.
Legal precedent for this was set in 1977, when the Mescalero Apache Tribe of New Mexico, seeking to replace dwindling timber harvesting revenues from their 460, 000-acre reservation, began selling hunting licenses with terms more liberal than the state's.
He will preside over both sets of meetings, though the French do not want this to be a precedent: a future president of the European Council just might hail from a non-euro country, and, horror, preside over euro-zone business.
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