Precedented

From the surface, he seems WAY too hawkish, and an Executive going to war without Congressional authority, though definitely precedented, is still scary as hell. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The real outrage is how common and banal, how unsurprising and thoroughly precedented it is. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Ok, we are coming out of a precedented global recession, however, this week there have been signs that things are starting to improve. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The budget for peace-keeping forces is at an all time high as the UN deploys un-precedented numbers of blue berets in trouble spots around the world -- deployed, almost always, after conflict has broken out. ❋ Nicholas Van Praag (2010)

All Hatch is saying is that any appearance of dissention by the GOP is entirely justified and/or precedented. ❋ Unknown (2009)

(I was a prisoner in his apartment; you know, we were "friends," in a never-acknowledge-nor-precedented way.) ❋ Unknown (2010)

Perhaps as often precedented as a member of the shadow cabinet calling a by-election for his own seat unprompted. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In this way of telling it, McKinley alone understood what everybody else was missing: A political realignment was under way, and by harnessing it, though it might “scandalize” conventional thinking, McKinley would not only carry the presidency but also bring about an un-precedented period of dominance for his party. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Then her just vanishing without trace on Earth would have made much more, precedented sense. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In some this is an experiment in whether humanity can collectively change its behavior in ways which are rather precedented. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Anyway, speaking of sophistry and lawyering, how come all the lawyering and sophistry to avoid acknowledgement that what you and those who feel as you do (including most of the international community) are asking Israel to do is indeed rather un-precedented? ❋ Unknown (2007)

Your proposed solutions interfere with those national rights in un-precedented ways. ❋ Unknown (2007)

One sort of living memorial could, of course, be taking up the well-precedented Kennedy request for the presidency — and no judge of politics doubts that Teddy is a born contender for the White House one day. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Even I came up with a more innovative and historically precedented plan in my article: ❋ Unknown (2009)

Tomorrow (Thursday) morning at 11: 30 ET, President Obama will return to the White House's East Room where he held a prime time press conference Tuesday night for a somewhat less precedented Q&A: a virtual town hall on the economy -- organized to respond to online questions submitted and promoted through Open for Questions, WhiteHouse. gov's first experiment in interactive citizen engagement. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She preceded him into [the room] ❋ NotColombus (2020)

His [steez] screams [precedent], fresh [btown] status ❋ Your Boss (2008)

These [fake friends] are preceding me to become what [I want] ❋ Mlere (2018)

I messed up while DJing last night by playing [Plastikman] at the wrong speed, but i invoked [the Peel] [Precedent] and got away with it. It sounded just as good anyway... ❋ Charlie No4 (2007)

"[The Rittenhouse precedent] now gives [deranged] right-wingers the right to kill [my wife's boyfriend] if he chases one of them down in a riot" ❋ BlowtorchBassem (2021)

Did you read [about that] new [executive order]? Wow! Precedent Obama is really making new [ground]! ❋ Theeea (2009)

Bob tells funny stories and does spontaneous imitations at work. each one is a little [funnier] than the one before. his [co-worker's] expectations track with his performance so that now he has to maintain the [gradient] of improvement every time he opens his mouth or, - and this is the key- they will respond as if it was less funny than it really is. He has trapped himself in a system of ascending precedents. ❋ Kenneth A. Vaughan (2008)

A few "classic" and disgraceful examples of a precedent of the United States would be Kennedy's philandering (and so Clinton and Dubya followed suit), [Nixon's] [dirty politics] (and so Reagan did likewise, as well), and [Reagan's] running rough-shod over everyone (just as The Donald is doing now). ❋ QuacksO (2019)