Each movement is independent from precedent and subsequent one, in varying context.

In a departure from precedent, the Budget 2012 will be delivered to the parliament over two days instead of one.

The bards' approach to the official duties of whatever the situation might have been was very traditional and drawn from precedent.

He insisted on casting his vote, despite the departure from precedent being pointed out to him.

We did not think, judging from precedent, that it would pursue us far even at worst.

As I said just now, the circumstances are unusual and justify a de-parture from precedent.

The American right of petition is derived from British precedent.

The decision is a retreat from precedent and the principles of fairness.

It is a strange argument, far removed from precedent and reason.

They know no other influence than corruption and reckon all their probabilities from precedent.