#precedent

This type of gathering is unprecedented. The time has come for Christians to publicly affirm our Jewish roots, distinctions and oneness in Jesus Christ. ↗

— Bill McCartney

#christ #christians #come #distinctions #gathering

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#inaction #our #poor #precedent #respect

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race. ↗

— Mary McLeod Bethune

#development #full #given #glory #history

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality. ↗

— Bono

#africa #dignity #equality #facing #here

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent. ↗

— Will Durant

#begins #broken #custom #every #minority

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions. ↗

— Al Gore

#before #beings #change #climate #climate change

The Obama administration's attempted short-term fixes, even with unprecedented monetary easing by the Federal Reserve, produced average GDP growth of just 2.2% over the past three years, and the consensus outlook appears no better for the year ahead. ↗

— Glenn Hubbard

#ahead #appears #attempted #average #better

Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans. ↗

— Max Baucus

#hard-won #healthy #judge #judge roberts #me

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#current #era #helping #historical #history

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#cause #degree #more #proletariat #revolution