This precedent is set and cannot be undone.

先例一开，便无法撤消。

youdao

Other nations soon followed this precedent and the 1970s Arab petro-boom began.

其他国家很快引为榜样，70年代阿拉伯的石油热潮开始。

youdao

This precedent is well established in international law, and there is no other way to do it.

这种做法在国际法中已有较好先例，除此之外，也别无他法。

youdao

For a start, Ethiopia would be too worried about the effect this precedent might have on its own lawless Somali clans.

ECONOMIST: Somaliland

This precedent should be followed with respect to New START, as well.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Washington, DC��

"We deplore that this resolution was used to introduce this precedent, " Mexican Ambassador to the United Nations Adolfo Aguilar Zinser said after the session.

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