Word: precedental
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In later years, he discerned how democracy could be distorted, pointing to Republican France and Napoleon (a "wretch," Jefferson declared, of "maniac ambition"; he added "Having been, like him, entrusted with the happiness of my country, I feel the blessing of resembling him in no other point"). Jefferson stitched together...
If the court decides that the prolonged pre-trial solitary confinement does indeed infringe on constitutional rights, the case could set a precedent, el-Hage's lawyers said.
"What we're talking about here is a very narrow category," he said, adding "there is plenty of precedent" for cybersquatting convictions.
At the time, Dean Richard Brodhead told the Yale Daily News that he was reluctant to set a precedent that would allow donors to influence academics. Yale faculty members supported Yale University President Richard Levin, saying that universities had to maintain the ability to direct academics.
"The entire process is generally under student control," Azoff says. "The University decided long ago to do it this way, and no one really challenges the precedent now."