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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They worried about "proportionality," "even-handedness," the precedent of acting beyond NATO's formal area of commitment, and assuming responsibility for Bosnia's future.

他们担心“军事行动的规模”，“公平性，” 承诺在北约正式的行政规划之外的地区实施军事行动有无先例，并且还宣称要为波斯尼亚的未来承担责任。

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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,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

"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

Colonel Gadhafi is currently president of the African Union and he recently told U.N.chief Ban Ki-moon the warrant against Mr.Bashir constituted a "grave precedent against the independence of less powerful states, their sovereignty and their political choices."

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

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.

CNN: Will any of Europe's other older royals step down?

But the only sure way to avoid it is to follow the precedent of James K. Polk and Rutherford B.

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