#precedent

Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly. ↗

— Alexander Haig

#affront #brilliantly #bush #capable #could

This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#going #police #precedent #right #very

It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing. ↗

— Howard Carter

#never #precedent #seeing #sight #surpassing

In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#back #both #different #different sets #formal

The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#combines #hand #higher #historical #ideal

One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine. ↗

— Junius

#another #constitute #creates #doctrine #fact

Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#coming #conditions #criteria #decision #domestic

We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education. ↗

— Allen Weinstein

#civic #concerns #democratic #dependence #education

This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#built #connected #everyone #focus #future

A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#before #being #being done #censor #difficult