1.   And there is recent precedent for state funerals producing diplomatic gestures.

2.   Breaking with recent precedent, Roman Catholic Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles agreed to deliver the invocation at the opening of the Democratic convention.

3.   Recent precedents in gambling cases involved football and basketball players at Northwestern and football and basketball players at Maryland.

4.   Recent precedent would suggest Healy, as well.

5.   The budget debate, which has dominated Mexican politics all fall, was without recent precedent because for seven decades every Congress has been controlled by the president.

6.   The prosecutors implored the Senate to be guided by its most recent precedents.

7.   The strategy, White House officials believe, has no recent precedent in ambassadorial appointments, but Clinton spokesman Michael McCurry said.

8.   There is recent precedent for what the Pirates are doing.

9.   There is a recent precedent here for this type of Machiavellian scenario.

10.   There is recent precedent for taxpayer support of a sports facility in Fort Worth-Dallas.