Example sentences of "set a dangerous " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ They have set a dangerous precedent . |
2 | FRY Prime Minister Milan Panic claimed that the Security Council resolution [ see below ] had set a dangerous precedent , and warned that while " the matter pertains to Yugoslavia today , tomorrow it could be any other country " . |
3 | ‘ It sets a dangerous precedent . |
4 | Not only is this ungallant to Susan Hill , with whom La Hodge is being compared and contrasted , it sets a dangerous precedent . |
5 | It is too early to say exactly what powers the committee will have , or indeed how sympathetic they will be to the aim of preserving such areas , but this sets a dangerous precedent . |
6 | This proposal sets a dangerous anti-democratic precedent . |
7 | But critics say it sets a dangerous example . |
8 | Nevertheless , one editor fears today 's decision sets a dangerous precedent which could make successful prosecutions much more difficult in future . |
9 | Molotov was opposed to the evacuation of any Soviet military bases for fear of setting a dangerous precedent which could apply to other similar and more important issues . |
10 | Arab states including Algeria , Jordan , Sudan , Syria and Yemen strongly condemned the plan , regarding it as setting a dangerous precedent in the region and also as signalling the effective three-way partitioning of Iraq into Kurdish , Sunni and Shia blocs . |
11 | Advocates for the CPSU , however , warned that to rule against the constitutionality of the party would endanger freedom of conscience , setting a dangerous precedent against " any party of the communist orientation " . |
12 | Philip Stamford-Bewlay and Mrs Sheila Brown claimed the council was ‘ lowering its standards ’ and setting a dangerous precedent for future developments . |
13 | of course , Whitehall feels the carrot of granting the companies title to the plutonium set a dangerous and perhaps foolhardy precedent . |
14 | The recent Indian Supreme Court judgement that the US Multlnational , Union Carbide , pay $470 million by way of compensation to the victims of the world 's largest industrial accident , elicited sharply polarized reactions and set a dangerous international precedent . |
15 | One of those involved in compiling the report , Terence Lee of the University of Surrey , argued that recent Soviet legislation setting the maximum permitted dose of radiation as 0.5 rem above natural background level , was " absurdly low " , and set a dangerous precedent which , if followed by the UK , would compel the evacuation " of half of Cornwall " . |