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Pel é and David Beckham, among others, prece ded him — he may be the most enthusiastic booster for New York.

Soccer Star Henry Scores in SoHo 2010

Those were meant to be fighting words; they were prece ...

Sanford D. Horwitt: Obama's Most Important Speech Was Not About Race 2008

Those were meant to be fighting words; they were prece ...

Sanford D. Horwitt: Obama's Most Important Speech Was Not About Race 2008

Et si forte aliquo casu contingente reseruant aliquos nobiles; nec prece nec precio vltra de captiuitate possunt exire.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Earlier, Stanbic lawyers argued that it would be absurd to bypass the competition authorities, which would create a prece - dent.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

The terms “secondary” or “derivative” here do not imply any sense of prece - dence or superiority but are only a figurative way of expressing the notion that the distinctive characteristic of a legal rule is in its reference to the prescribed circumstances for the application of institutional force.

CONCEPT OF LAW GRAHAM HUGHES 1968

Montesquieu in his L'Esprit des lois explicitly uses the term “general spirit of nations”: “Mankind is influ - enced by various causes: by the climate, by the religion, by the laws, by the maxims of government, by prece - dents, morals and customs; whence is formed a general spirit of nations.”

VOLKSGEIST NATHAN ROTENSTREICH 1968

Though prece - dent may first have been recognized and accepted through irrational or unreflecting attitudes, the idea or concept of legal precedent has been supported by

LEGAL PRECEDENT T. B. SMITH 1968

The terms “secondary” or “derivative” here do not imply any sense of prece - dence or superiority but are only a figurative way of expressing the notion that the distinctive characteristic of a legal rule is in its reference to the prescribed circumstances for the application of institutional force.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas 1925

Protege prece piâ quos convoco Sancta Maria or what is metrically a little more correct

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913