#precedent

We're going to do something that's really unprecedented in the industry by launching the console in all three major markets for the same holiday. It's never been done before. ↗

— J Allard

#before #console #done #going #holiday

A precedent embalms a principle. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#principle

The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years, have secured our nation unprecedented freedoms and made us the world's bulwark of liberty. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#american men #been #before #bulwark #communities

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

I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#get #give #i #i think #like

This unprecedented crisis, which is without doubt the worst since the second world war, is not over. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

#doubt #over #second #second world war #since

Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#beyond #borders #country #courts #historically

Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#airlines #course #damage #goods #injury

When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#ages #back #beyond #borders #court

Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#against #budgetary #care #desires #gop