#precedent

With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it. ↗

— Graham Coxon

#bit #blur #by the time #came #daughter

It has been an honor to work in the Obama Administration and to serve this President, particularly during a period of unprecedented change in the broader Middle East. Obviously, there is still work to do but I promised my wife I would return to government for only two years and we both agreed it is time to act on my promise. ↗

— Dennis Ross

#administration #agreed #been #both #broader

I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change. ↗

— Tiberius

#always #am #any #beware #binding

As federal lawmakers, we have a responsibility to set a precedent for energy efficient practices. ↗

— Greg Walden

#energy #federal #lawmakers #practices #precedent

Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#google #important #important things #internet #lawsuits

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#beings #enterprise #every #fellow #fellow human beings

From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#america #available #based #buildings #century

Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken. ↗

— Nate Silver

#election #every #four #new #precedent

We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#boom #defeating #duration #generation #long

These terrorist actions, prepared in cold blood, against the people, the society and the institutions of the United States are unprecedented in history. ↗

— Ferenc Madl

#against #blood #cold #history #institutions