These precedents can be extended.

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There are plenty of precedents for such a course.

Indeed, the precedents of democratic immobility in Asia are hardly encouraging.

Precedents exist for this. NATO has been flexible since its inception.

Precedents abound in American history for using scare stories to justify fiscal expansion.

Japan and South Korea are perhaps too small to serve as useful precedents.

There are clear historical precedents for reining in over exuberant and over innovative sectors.

A liberal political order implies a rule of law that recognizes precedents and analogical thinking.

All the international precedents from Nuremberg to the present concern international intervention after mass atrocities.

Germany would consider the existing precedents, namely the EU s budget and the composition of the ECB, unfair and unacceptable.

So it is probably best to examine the merits of each case separately, looking to precedents and agendas for guidance.

While we have some successful precedents, such as the Nordic model, it is difficult for nations to achieve this balance.

Historical precedents played a part in the Iraq decision, not least because President Bush s national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, cited them often.

Who will own the resources that may one day be extracted there? often look to the Antarctic treaty system for precedents and analogies.

By looking at earlier revolutions, we can perhaps come to understand what is happening in Iran, for recent events there have clear historical precedents.

In view of the similarities between those historical precedents and current conditions in Saudi Arabia, we ought not to rule out the possibility of reform.

Given these precedents, perhaps Asian policymakers should consider the merits of doing away with cohabitation and adopting systems where electoral victory translates into real power.

It appears that during an upcoming visit to Havana, the Mexican foreign minister will not meet with local dissidents, breaking with precedents established since 1993.

Though it is impossible to predict how events may unfold, there are precedents in the many conflicts triggered by the breakdowns of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.

The rise of China and India may create instability, but it is a problem with precedents, and we can learn from history about how policies can affect the outcome.

By contrast, Anglo Saxon common law systems empower judges to interpret open ended fiduciary rules on a case by case basis, thereby establishing legal precedents that are binding on managers.

Therefore, guided by the precedents, I have to inform you that cases of divorce all come to the following there is, I suppose, no physical defect or absence without news?...'

The nub of the anti depressant crisis is not that these drugs could do so much harm, but that they were allowed to do so when the precedents were so plain.

But fostering ethnic reconciliation is a tall order for any court, and the ICTY hasn t yet delivered. A liberal political order implies a rule of law that recognizes precedents and analogical thinking.

Greece may account for less than 2 of eurozone GDP, but the pursuit of shortsighted ad hoc solutions to its problems may set precedents that could bring down the entire monetary union.

Given these precedents and the widespread instability exposed by this year's elections, perhaps Asian policymakers should consider the merits of doing away with cohabitation and adopting systems where electoral victory translates into real power.

This was not a middle class modeled on North Atlantic precedents, and its members status is precarious and reversible moreover, their standard of living is well below that of their counterparts in wealthier countries.

Historical memory is not always quite as bad as this. But international politics and diplomacy are riddled with examples of bad and ill considered precedents being used to justify foreign policy decisions, invariably leading to catastrophe.

For the record, there are clear precedents for divided countries to enter the UN as separate states and then eventually to reunify West and East Germany, North and South Yemen, and perhaps one day the two Koreas.

Today, the top priority for socialists is to re establish a balance between economic productivity and social justice. While we have some successful precedents, such as the Nordic model, it is difficult for nations to achieve this balance.

For anyone concerned with human rights, disintegration in Nigeria or Indonesia would be a calamity. Though it is impossible to predict how events may unfold, there are precedents in the many conflicts triggered by the breakdowns of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.

A decade ago there would have been a good argument in international law that the Hutu Tutsi example supports prosecution only after the damage has been done. All the international precedents from Nuremberg to the present concern international intervention after mass atrocities.

Others pretend to worry about the moral hazard implications of debt relief, despite the fact that the country s private sector debt has already been written off at EU insistence, and that there are dozens, if not hundreds, of precedents for restructuring the debts of insolvent sovereigns.