"It's a dangerous precedent for the government to get so heavily involved in the economy and so it concerns me, but the financial system did not go under,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

The only precedent Milton would have had even for the idea of line numbers would have been the great ancient classics, the magnificent Renaissance editions of Homer and Virgil.

弥尔顿曾经的唯一一个范例，甚至是印上行数的想法,都将是伟大的古老杰作，是荷马和维吉尔伟大的再生版。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Right? It's like my needs, my desires are more important than yours and mine take precedent.

就好比是，我的需要与欲望比你的更重要,所以要优先考虑我。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

"Any discussion of settlements, any discussion of the issues of living in East Jerusalem, should not take precedent over the primary focus of import which is the growing threat of a nuclear Iran,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

You can never--there's a strong legal precedent for not being able to make a claim about stolen bass, because these basses are limited in number, they involve rather simple harmonic progressions, and they've been used over the centuries.

可是你绝对不可能起诉别人抄袭低音部，这个强有力的法律判例，因为低音部的选择很有限，他们由很简单的和声进程组成，几个世纪以来一直在反复使用。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

"You might take this as a general principle, that if you have revolutionary transformations, it's extremely difficult to go back to legal,legitimized, constitutional transfers of power that revolutionary settlements, in fact,are quite dangerous as a precedent.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

Colonel Gadhafi is currently president of the African Union and he recently told U.N.chief Ban Ki-moon the warrant against Mr.Bashir constituted a "grave precedent against the independence of less powerful states, their sovereignty and their political choices."

VOA: standard.2009.03.26