Sentences with phrase «little precedent»

There is very little precedent for requiring an employer to offer paid time off.

The infrastructure records transactions and account balances, yielding measurements with scope and accuracy that have little precedent in economics.

And this being new legislation, there's very little precedent about to guide us.

The oil industry argues, however, that there is little precedent for using common law to address a complex global problem like climate change.

In the 1980s, international conferences and new types of scientific groups began to shape the agendas of governments to a degree that had little precedent in other areas of world politics.

In other words, there really is very little precedent to build arguments on.

In a move with little precedent in professional sports, NBA star Stephen Curry will appear alongside fellow players Carmelo Anthony, Joakim Noah and Chris Paul in a public service announcement On Christmas Day against gun violence backed by director Spike Lee and former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg.

There is also little precedent indicating how CFIUS would view a Chinese investment in senior living.

But seriously: With so little precedent for a character this bizarre enduring beyond one film, Zoolander 2 perhaps helplessly slips into the rhythms and patterns of an Austin Powers sequel.

Acknowledging that few courts had addressed the issue, and looking to what little precedent did exist, the court held that a violation of the cited provision of RESPA requires the involvement of a third party.

There is little precedent for mayors having much of a political future beyond their time in office.

As per the Times article, «Amazon sells about one in four printed books, according to industry estimates, a level of market domination with little precedent in the book trade.»

WASHINGTON — President Trump's warning on Tuesday that North Korea would experience «fire and fury like the world has never seen» if it continued threatening the United States was a remarkable escalation of military rhetoric with little precedent in the modern era, historians and analysts said.

Despite the fact that this issue is common in complex divorce cases, there is actually very little precedent in Pennsylvania relating to the double dip.

Little precedent?

There is little precedent in the cryptocurrency - policy arena to guide current regulatory efforts.

And the rate of fund - raising by Uber — and across the start - up landscape — has little precedent, driven by money pouring in from hedge funds, strategic investors and more, and by the willingness of entrepreneurs to embrace the cash.

Twelve openings is far larger number, observers argue, and there is little precedent in Mr. Cuomo's inaction.

Then again, there was little precedent for grim Gothic horror films winning the top prize when «The Silence of the Lambs» swept the board nearly 20 years ago — every Oscar pundit's go - to exception that proves the, well, exception.

By contrast, there's little precedent for kinky, flamboyant psychodramas like Aronofsky's latest making the cut in the top race.

Her maquettes developed from the 1950s onwards into a highly distinctive body of abstract sculptures, a tradition for which there was little precedent in her home country.

But I'd say it has a very strong epistemic case, because it compares two versions of the same model, one with a high enough resolution that there is little precedent.

As a practical political matter, however, there is little precedent for states or other subnational bodies to invest in anything that might be considered broadly as foreign aid; such contributions are typically considered an aspect of foreign policy and are left to national governments.

We suggest therefore that either approach can be used independently as a device to build support for carbon policies, but there is little precedent for using both simultaneously.

While much attention was focused on the fact there is little precedent for global court orders to take down «content», the Court looked at a large body of decisions supporting the authority of Canadian courts to make orders with global effects.

In the ordinary course, the government would not have done this and there was little precedent for this course within Australian native title negotiations.