If the claims turned out to be true, they would not be without precedent.
Of course car buffs know that an exotic-car company selling an SUV is not without precedent.
The opportunity this presents for American Jews who care about Israel is without precedent.
The Obama administration's insistence that Senators accede to his efforts to relegate them to rubber-stamps is without precedent.
For academics, foreign policy experts and decision makers, Latin America is currently offering a model without precedent in history.
French military analyst Francois Heisburg told the BBC the extent of the agreement over nuclear weapons was "without precedent".
This type of first quarter melt-up is not without precedent, as last year we had a similar scenario over that time-frame.
So the weekly big food shop in a large supermarket is still shrinking, in a prolonged way that is almost without precedent.
The conversion of socialist republics into dynastic states is not without precedent.
The CAA said it was a "situation without precedent" and that decisions had been made based on "thorough gathering of data and analysis".
In a move without precedent and with ominous implications, the International Seabed Authority would have the power to impose what amounts to taxes on American citizens.
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They'd like names and numbers assigned much like they are now, without regard for the real world, because everything about the Internet is, man, like, totally without precedent.
But nobody could have foreseen the magnitude of the catastrophe: the sheer, sudden force of the flooding on the night of December 15th was without precedent in Venezuela.
Discounts on Apple products are unusual but not without precedent.
The story of Asia over the last few decades is the story of change that is so rapid and transformative that it may be without precedent in human history.
Temporary seating and venues, like the 12, 000-seat Basketball Arena, will accommodate nearly 300, 000 spectators during the games -- a figure without precedent at any previous Olympics, according to organizers.
While some may doubt Highlight's ability to persuade a mass-market audience to share with strangers, Davison's goals aren't without precedent -- largely thanks to a trail blazed by similar app Badoo.
Although the report was denied by the Obama administration, if it was true, such a move by the White House would be without precedent in the history of US relations with Israel.
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We should not forget that an appeal to our courts to remedy legislative neglect is not without precedent: witness the 1954 ruling by the Warren court in the struggle for racial equality in Brown v Board of Education.
It added that the Italian president "hoped to provide a solution to an affair considered by the United States to be without precedent because of the conviction of a US military officer of Nato for deeds committed on Italian soil".
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The concept is not without precedent: The early NIH guidelines for research with recombinant DNA-modified organisms promulgated in the 1970s imposed less stringent regulatory requirements for organisms that resulted from cisgenic constructions but those guidelines long ago were relegated to the dustbin of history as NIH recognized the irrationality of focusing regulation on the most precise genetic engineering technologies.
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The reality is that President Obama inherited a high level of federal spending that was without historical precedent.
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