How To Use Prerogative In A Sentence
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Second, that the entire Reichstag assented to the declarations made by the speakers on Tuesday that the Emperor had exceeded his constitutional prerogatives in private discussion with foreigners concerning Germany's attitude on controverted questions.
New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why?
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With the usual prerogative of the wealthy classes, he tended to choose doctors with a reputation for having studied some topics in greater detail than usual.
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Your Honour, we have not appealed against that, but what we do say is that we have sufficient standing to obtain either of the prerogative writs if ultimately the Court were minded to grant them and we do not really need more than that.
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That being the case, it is inconceivable to me that an accused cannot raise, by way of prerogative writ, the issue of the statutory validity of service before a court of competent jurisdiction.
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The honey seems extraordinarily expensive, but then sweetness was a prerogative of the rich until the eighteenth century.
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Prior to the amendment, the president had the prerogative to appoint ambassadors or accept foreign envoys.
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In the case of the perch, the anglers argued that catching a fish was a human prerogative.
Times, Sunday Times
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And the singer says in her own words that it's her prerogative right now to just chill.
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The accusation that the king aimed at increasing the royal prerogative or deliberately connived at secret influence will not bear scrutiny.
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The crisis of 1629-60 originated in Charles I's belief that by the royal prerogative he could govern without the advice and consent of Parliament.
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But, remember, you will have passed the Rubicon, when once you have been shaven: if you repent, and let your beard grow, your mouth will by-and-by show no longer what Messer Angelo calls the divine prerogative of lips, but will appear like a dark cavern fringed with horrent brambles.
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There are many in expansionist China today who believe that this prerogative belongs to them.
Communist ChinaTime for Reappraisal
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For the latter part of the power of the prerogative, or that whereby they are the supreme judicatory of this nation, and of the provinces of the same, the cognizances of crimes against the majesty of the people, such as high treason, as also of peculation, that is, robbery of the treasury, or defraudation of the commonwealth, appertains to this tribe.
The Commonwealth of Oceana
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No longer the prerogative of middle class matrons or ladies who lunch, a fabulous range of facilities is right here in Glasgow.
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In her life and throughout her oeuvre, she unabashedly appropriated the prerogative of the fetishistic gaze associated with the masculine observer.
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This question, divested of the phraseology calculated to represent me as struggling for an arbitrary personal prerogative, is either simply a question who shall decide, or an affirmation that nobody shall decide, what the public safety does require, in cases of Rebellion of Invasion.
Balkinization
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Previously, of course, literacy had been the exclusive prerogative of the clergy.
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The accusation is that they disregard the legitimacy of contrary opinion on the principle that judgement is their prerogative alone, that they are asserting a privileged status, expecting it to be recognised.
More on Critique
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The government should not be able to change laws by the exercise of prerogative power.
Times, Sunday Times
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The applicant sought a declaration and/or prerogative orders to identify the lawful decisions and correct any unlawful decisions.
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The government should not be able to change laws by the exercise of prerogative power.
Times, Sunday Times
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The accusation that the king aimed at increasing the royal prerogative or deliberately connived at secret influence will not bear scrutiny.
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In addition to the claim for prerogative relief, the prosecutor also seeks an injunction against the third respondent.
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A royal charter is granted by the exercise of prerogative powers.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a woman 's prerogative to choose.
Times, Sunday Times
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Prerogative remedies for criminal charges will not ordinarily lie where an appeal is available.
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For in societies greatly marked by class prerogatives, style itself tends to become a competitive implement, as a privileged group may cultivate style to advertise its privileges and perpetuate them.
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Is it objected against us, by the most inveterate and the most uncandid of our enemies, that we have opposed any of the just prerogatives of the Crown, or any legal exertion of those prerogatives?
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The Justice Department says the Arizona statute is "preempted" by federal law because immigration enforcement is solely a federal prerogative.
Arizona's immigration law goes before appeals court
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Polygamy has been a prerogative in many societies.
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Any effective international regulation of nuclear weapons is bound to entail troublesome incursions challenging prerogatives of national sovereignty.
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Vice, including the deviancy of art, was the prerogative of the elderly, wily north, and in White's novels it ravages a southern society that is only virtuous because it lacks imagination.
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Polyandry gives women certain privileges which monandry denies, and she is not slow to seize on these prerogatives, and to use them in the furtherance of her own welfare.
Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire
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Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive. Anthony Burgess
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That is entirely within Dr Smith's prerogative, and no one else's.
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A year later the county magistrates do not seem to have thought his continuing obscuration exonerated them from defending themselves against the charge of 'intermeddling' with his prerogatives.
Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography
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Prior to the amendment, the president had the prerogative to appoint ambassadors or accept foreign envoys.
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Dinwiddie could be a gruff man, and he guarded his prerogatives, so he had one conflict after another with the House of Burgesses, which he usually prorogued dismissed if it did not do his bidding.
George Washington’s First War
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The union quest to preserve the rights and prerogatives of unskilled labor are doomed to failure.
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This principle is not the special prerogative of anthropology, and it transcends all the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines.
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The applicant advanced a number of grounds in support of his claim for entitlement to prerogative relief.
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Responsibility without power: the prerogative of the England manager through the ages.
Times, Sunday Times
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Monaco exacts a talliage of the same kind; and both he and the king of Sardinia maintain armed cruisers to assert this prerogative; from which, however, the English and French are exempted by treaty, in consequence of having paid a sum of money at once.
Travels through France and Italy
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First, liberty is the prerogative of citizens, and a large majority of the population will not possess citizenship.
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Setting up shop in the zone between intimacy and intrusion, a place where emotional and expressive prerogatives are negotiated, is a risky business that he manages with perfect sangfroid.
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Committing reserve fronts to battle was the prerogative of the SHC Hq.
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However, immortality and agelessness continued to be the prerogative of the gods; neither the children of mixed unions, nor mortals who were especially precious to the gods, could share them.
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It granted the pope royal honors and prerogatives and full liberty in the exercise of his religious functions; representatives of foreign powers at the Vatican received diplomatic rights and immunities; the pope received an annual income of 3.25 million lire from the Italian treasury and full enjoyment of the Vatican and other palaces with rights of extraterritoriality.
2. The Kingdom of Italy
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First, however, the present possessor of this authority was more pleased in talking about prerogative than in exercising it; and excepting that he imprisoned two poachers in the dungeon of the old tower of Tully-Veolan, where they were sorely frightened by ghosts, and almost eaten by rats, and that he set an old woman in the jougs (or Scottish pillory) for saying 'there were mair fules in the laird's ha' house than Davie
Waverley
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What we need not tolerate is a federal regulatory structure that is blind to the operations of those who wheel and deal at the very center of the global economy and federal officials who are so uncertain of their aims and prerogatives that they fumble in the face of crisis. www. twitter.com/janiceharayda
2009 May 21 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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The difference was that these middle-class Peruvians did not lose any prerogatives or privileges.
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That did not mean that the formulation or exercise of a prerogative power might not be susceptible to review on other grounds.
Times, Sunday Times
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The taxation of transport and of sales of merchandise, for example, was the exclusive prerogative of the king and his agents until the middle of the ninth century.
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It is the Prime Minister's prerogative to decide when to call an election.
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It is not contradictory, I believe, to argue at one and the same time that Bush's conception of his prerogatives of office is dictatorial (or, if one prefers, "authoritarian" or "monarchical," which is Bruce Fein's term) AND that he gives no hint of rejecting the most basic norm of American constitutionalism, which is the opportunity to vote the rascals out in an election.
Balkinization
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Football is not the prerogative of one or two continents.
The Sun
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The queen's prohibition of the "prophesyings," or the assemblies instituted for fanatical prayers and conferences, was founded on a better reason, but shows still the unlimited extent of her prerogative.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I.
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Leisure, they insisted, should remain the prerogative of the rich.
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That is their prerogative and their right, and no country can exercise pressure or intimidation to sway it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her supporters have lodged a petition of mercy and are hoping the government will use its royal prerogative to grant clemency and release her.
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Contrary to stereotypical images of Muslim women in Arab-Muslim societies, peacebuilding is by no means an exclusive male prerogative or male-dominated field.
Qamar-ul Huda, Ph.D.: Where's the Dove? Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution in Islam
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In the original, the men were cold and sinister; in the new version, they're nebbishes who need to be constantly drilled in masculine prerogatives by the head of the Men's Association.
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Football is not the prerogative of one or two continents.
The Sun
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The common law and the prerogative law does not tend to like absolutes.
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It is not the Chair's prerogative to determine the declaration of a vote.
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President may use his prerogative of mercy towards a criminal.
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Christian family of its mission as a nursery for the soul; wrest from the parents their high prerogative as stewards of God; and you heathenize home, yea, you brutalize it!
The Christian Home
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I have no problem with it in terms of the prerogative writs; the courts have a discretion there.
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While this is perfectly within the government's prerogative, student leaders as well as the ousted members feel the Liberals acted without justification.
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Determining the scope of fair dismissal for disobeying orders is vital in delimiting the bounds of managerial prerogative.
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The investment was heralded far and wide, and this Malaysian-based group was given privileges and prerogatives, including labour exemptions, apparently as part of the incentives for them to set up shop here.
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“Corporate oligarchy is a form of power, governmental or operational, where such power effectively rests with a small, elite group of inside individuals or influential economic entities or devices, such as banks, commercial entities that act in complicity with, or at the whim of the oligarchy, often with little or no regard for constitutionally protected prerogative.”
Think Progress » Former Bush speechwriter tells GOP: Democrats’ passage of health care is actually ‘our’ Waterloo.
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It is the Prime Minister's prerogative to decide when to call an election.
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David Marquand, one of the central themes of the golden age was 'embourgeoisement': the spread to the working class of the job security, career ladders and lifestyles which had formerly been the prerogatives of the middle class.
Archive 2009-08-01
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But when parents fail to provide continuity of care, the state revokes or curtails their parental prerogatives.
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Or is that the prerogative of the custodial parent?
Times, Sunday Times
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A royal charter is granted by the exercise of prerogative powers.
Times, Sunday Times
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A royal charter is granted by the exercise of prerogative powers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Constitutional changes are exclusively the prerogative of the parliament.
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In times of dire national emergency the president must exercise prerogative power.
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Inconsistency, after all, is the indispensable prerogative of great powers.
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Their agitation for a more powerful Dublin parliament was framed not as a progressive reform, but as the restoration of aristocratic prerogatives that had been taken away.
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But I don't question the authority and prerogative of the president.
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It was suggested that when a statute is passed empowering the Crown to do a certain thing which it might theretofore have done by virtue of its prerogative, the prerogative is merged in the statute.
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The government should not be able to change laws by the exercise of prerogative power.
Times, Sunday Times
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Which dotted line a player puts his moniker on is entirely his prerogative.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the months leading up to the deadline, questions were revived about the power and prerogative of Congress to wage war.
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If he wishes to assert a dual common source (both God and Q) then that's his prerogative but I would cite this as superfluous from a scriptural perspective.
An Amazing First Century
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That would be the Government's prerogative, and the Government's prerogative only.
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Yet so inordinate is the sex-distinction of the human race that the whole field of human progress has been considered a masculine prerogative.
Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution
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Their leaders have learned the hard way that, within their well-managed tropical island states, no election verdict, no constitutional custom or habit, no parliament’s decision, no ordinary citizen’s commonplace prerogative is safe from an intrusive America whose caprices and policies are neither fairer, nor more predictable, nor more morally conscionable than the vagaries of hurricanes.
Happy Independence Day, Haiti
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A royal charter is granted by the exercise of prerogative powers.
Times, Sunday Times
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This principle is not the special prerogative of anthropology, and it transcends all the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines.
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Low profile Usually campaigns against gambling are the prerogative of the fiercer Protestant denominations.
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Post was the privilege and prerogative of emperors and oligarchs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of her hatlessness at the State Opening, he says: "I assume maybe she was just uninformed about protocol, but it is her prerogative - maybe she just doesn't feel comfortable in hats.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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A large obelisk north of the village, erected in 1823, offers the gnomic advice that kings should not strain their prerogatives nor subjects rebel.
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What's more, air guitar is no longer a male prerogative.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was in the context of a privative clause in relation to the ability of courts to issue prerogative writs.
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Throughout history we have been taken to war under the royal prerogative.
Times, Sunday Times
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Query whether it is under the prerogative powers of the Crown.
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In India, the study of Sanskrit was denied to many segments of the Hindu population, as it was deemed to be a prerogative of only the privileged caste.
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The Secretary of State remains answerable to Parliament and the everyday pressures of political life, concerned with services rather than management prerogatives.
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It is the prerogative of a certain social class.
Times, Sunday Times
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NEWMYER: Well, a writ of mandamus is an ancient sort of common law, what we call a prerogative writ.
John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court
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For example, fringe theatre has given women a chance to direct plays - still largely a male prerogative.
The Past is Before Us - feminism in action since the 1960s
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All through the social mass run curious veins and streakings separating man from man and woman from woman; mysterious prerogatives and disabilities too ethereal to be distinguished by anything so crude as a title impede and disorder the great business of human intercourse.
The Common Reader, Second Series
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A sacrament must be instituted; it is no part of moral worship, nor is it dictated by natural light, but has both its being and significancy from the institution, from a divine institution; it is his prerogative who established the covenant, to appoint the seals of it.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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The prerogative of nobles was to command, and nobilities everywhere dominated the machineries of state.
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It is the Prime Minister's prerogative to decide when to call an election.
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For now, I simply don't want everyone to simply assume the truth of the oft-heard canard that OLC's proper role in construing the law is to press as hard as possible in the direction of presidential prerogatives.
Balkinization
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suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males
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Which dotted line a player puts his moniker on is entirely his prerogative.
Times, Sunday Times
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Browner had claimed an almost imperial prerogative to say her word was law.
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His theory of democracy in which an assembly of citizens would exercise sovereign prerogative was clearly inadequate.
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And her humility, which was never equaled by that of any other woman, did not hinder her from seeing the great things that God had operated in her, as she herself proclaims in that sublime canticle which is the "Magna Charta" of the rights, the prerogatives and the greatness of woman.
Serious Hours of a Young Lady
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While admiration of the moon is a distinctive women's activity in a garden setting, this was not purely a female prerogative.
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The birthright is the prerogative of the eldest son.
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He did not differentiate between the proprium or dominium, property rights, and the imperium, political prerogative.
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The Ausgleich was a complicated balance of royal prerogatives and national liberties.
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It then explores recent attempts to identify the preclusive prerogatives of the Commander in Chief and explains why the tests often deployed to cabin the scope of the presumed preclusive power are flawed.
Archive 2008-01-01
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Two other controversial cases have highlighted the problems for the courts in holding the exercise of the prerogative power to be justiciable.
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Constitutional changes are exclusively the prerogative of the parliament.
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Alex makes all the big decisions - that's his prerogative as company director.
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Power can be responsible, strong government can be democratic, and presidential prerogative can be constitutional.
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To recover the King's revenues was as important as to assert his prerogative.
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Which dotted line a player puts his moniker on is entirely his prerogative.
Times, Sunday Times
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The episode underscores just how furious - and arrogant - big media owners can get when journalists challenge their prerogatives and power.
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In a region where belief in witchcraft is widespread and many women are taught from childhood not to challenge tribal leaders or the prerogatives of men, the fear of flouting tradition often outweighs even the fear of AIDS.
A Deadly Tradition | PopPolitics.com
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This "Long Parliament," as it was to be called, repudiated the king's policies and obliged him to surrender many of his prerogative powers.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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For as for that part which seemeth supernumerary, which is prophecy, it is but divine history, which hath that prerogative over human, as the narration may be before the fact as well as after.
The Advancement of Learning
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Making such decisions is not the sole prerogative of managers.
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Yet wildlife slaughter has never been the prerogative of a single race or a particular political creed.
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In answering such a question, the executive enjoys no constitutional prerogative.
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The benign prerogative of mercy reposed cannot be fettered by any legislative restrictions.
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Both my parents were secretly vexed that I had come into the world an hour sooner than my brother; and Gerald himself looked upon it as a sort of juggle, -- a kind of jockeyship by which he had lost the prerogative of birthright.
Devereux — Volume 01
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In the exercise of mercy, there should be no doubt left that the high prerogative is not used to relieve a few at the expense of the many.
The Punishment of Treason
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Education was once the prerogative of the elite.
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Was this a prerogative act, such as only the Crown and its military servants could order and perform?
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The selection of candidates is a jealously guarded prerogative of the constituencies.
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It is the prerogative of a certain social class.
Times, Sunday Times
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So while, as the result of a vicious system of kingly and spiritual thraldom, the intellect of Spain was forced away from its legitimate channels of thought and action, under the shadow of the royal prerogative, which survived the genuine power of the older kings, art flourished and bloomed, unsuspected and unpersecuted by the coward jealousy of courtier and monk.
Castilian Days
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Many of the constitutional conflicts in the reigns of John, Henry III, and Edward II turned on aspects of the prerogative - e.g. the king's right to tallage.
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The most extensive privileges were enjoyed by the nobility and clergy, but guilds, municipalities, professional bodies like those of magistracies, and provinces also had their own prerogatives.
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Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive. Anthony Burgess
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The conspicuous display of kente testifies to the widespread use and symbolism of this textile, once the ‘exclusive prerogative of Asante or other Akan chiefs’.
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But this is, after all, an executive prerogative.
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Faced with the intention of David Milliband to press on and attempt to ratify the first Lisbon Treaty through the House Of Lords today, Wednesday June 18th, Bill Cash made an application to the High Court yesterday that the royal prerogative is being used illegally.
EU Treaty
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It is the Government's prerogative to make that decision.
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Addressing the Johannesburg Press Club on the eve of the national lottery's first anniversary, Khoza said that although the disbursement was the government's prerogative, he had the news on good authority and was confident the funds would be distributed.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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a subsidy of four hundred thousand caroli, as the third part of the twelve hundred thousand granted by the states of the Netherlands, and the resistance of Ghent in opposition to the other three members of the province, will, of course, be judged differently, according as the sympathies are stronger with popular rights or with prerogative.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 02: Introduction II
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Furthermore, constitutions often specify that the conduct of foreign policy is the government's prerogative.
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I'll be hanged if I can associate psychics with a biceps like Berber's; somehow those things seem the special prerogative of anemic women in white cheese-cloth fooling with 'planchette' and 'currents.'
The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
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The immediate jurisdiction of the khan is confined within the limits of his own tribe; and the exercise of his royal prerogative has been moderated by the ancient institution of a national council.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Crowned Yoruba chiefs and kings (obas) had the wealth and prerogative to commission works of art.
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As His sovereignty extends to His worship, so it is His sole prerogative to appoint the laws of His worship, to command of His subjects the way they ought to worship Him.
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Any effective international regulation of nuclear weapons is bound to entail troublesome incursions challenging prerogatives of national sovereignty.
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Just as the questions relating to disarmament are usually left to military experts and to those with a vested interest in armament, these questions are also usually regarded as the exclusive prerogative of men.
Seán MacBride - Nobel Lecture
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The royal prerogative is also being used to deny people a British passport.
Times, Sunday Times
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As Mill put it, it is the right and prerogative of each person, once they have reached the maturity of their years, to interpret for themselves the meaning and value of their experiences.
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The tsar protected his personal prerogatives.
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These prerogatives are what differentiate organizational owners from the members of other constituent groups.
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In its lawsuit against Arizona, the Justice Department argues that the state statute is "preempted" by federal law because immigration enforcement is solely a federal prerogative.
Arizona files countersuit tied to challenge of its immigration law
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That is at least partly because in the earlier Middle Ages literacy was largely a prerogative of the Church - including not only the clergy of all ranks but many unordained monks and nuns.
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[745] Jerusalem had prerogative above all places of the eird, [746] where alswa were the Priests lineally descended fra Aaron, and greater number followed the Scribes, Pharisies, and Priestes, then unfainedly beleeved and approved Christ Jesus and his doctrine: [747] And zit, as we suppose, no man of sound judgment will grant, that ony of the forenamed were the Kirk of God.
The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
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It is the responsibility and prerogative of the policymakers to determine how conflicting interests will be prioritized for their purposes.
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There is nothing particularly progressive, as Dan Atkinson & Larry Elliot point out in The Age of Insecurity, in a European Union in which the prerogatives of a brutal neoliberalism form the current vulgate.
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Angels are grieved when God's prerogative is in the least infringed.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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It is the Prime Minister's prerogative to decide when to call an election.
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It's a woman 's prerogative not to answer that question!
The Sun
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The lord had many of the characteristics of a patriarchal chieftain, but his prerogative was limited by a variety of settled customs traceable to the express conditions which had been agreed upon when the infeudation took place.
Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society
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A series of court cases initiated in Ireland sought to have the jurisdictional prerogative of the Irish parliament clearly established.
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The Prime Minister exercised his prerogative to decide when to call an election.
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It is quite as rebarbative and as jealous of its prerogatives as Parliament and nothing like so easy to summon.
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To his contemporaries he seemed subversive, robbing aristocracy of its sumptuary prerogatives.
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A Nazis poke to peculiarity this bargain to their prerogative along with inside recklessness, Toulon commits self-murder .
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So Paul, with the hopefulness which is the prerogative of youth, recovered by degrees from the depression of spirit that the memory of the tragedy of Tewkesbury cast over him, and learned by degrees to take
In the Wars of the Roses A Story for the Young
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Like James the First, however, the present possessor of this authority was more pleased in talking about prerogative than in exercising it; and excepting that he imprisoned two poachers in the dungeon of the old tower of Tully-Veolan, where they were sorely frightened by ghosts, and almost eaten by rats, and that he set an old woman in the jougs (or Scottish pillory) for saying 'there were mair fules in the laird's ha' house than Davie
Waverley — Volume 1
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‘‘Prerogative’ power is, properly speaking, legal power which appertains to the Crown but not to its subjects.
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Yet the courts must also heed the prerogative of governments to govern and not substitute judicial insight for executive policy.
Times, Sunday Times
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We complain considerably just now of the swamping of class distinctions in our lands, but a man of culture has a prerogative to which the biliously moral middle classes can never aspire: to be an Arab, when it suits him.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
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Protestantism, the great prerogative of reason, the key-note of conscience, the sole vindex of a man's responsibility: evil and false is the so-called reverential wisdom which lays down in place of the truth that each man's conscience is a law unto himself, the tyranny of other men's authority.
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
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If people want to diet until they almost disappear, or smoke cigarettes, or feed their baby on formula milk, or spend every spare minute lying in the blazing sun, that is their prerogative.
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Bolton, a Democratic appointee, also questioned a core part of the Justice Department's argument that she should declare the law unconstitutional: that it is "preempted" by federal law because immigration enforcement is an exclusive federal prerogative.
Hearing on Arizona immigration law begins
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I will defend my decisions as being not only liturgically correct, sound, and beneficial, but also as being my prerogative to make.
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This is after all an ancient if rather unroyal prerogative.
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Making such decisions is not the sole prerogative of managers.
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He urged him to abolish the prerogatives claimed by nobles and the helotism of all who were not noble, and suggested that judges should be appointed for life and justice rendered free of expense.
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Like James the first, however, the present possessor of this authority was more pleased in talking about prerogative than in exercising it; and, excepting that he imprisoned two poachers in the dungeon of the old tower of Tully-Veolan, where they were sorely frightened by ghosts, and almost eaten by rats, and that he set an old woman in the jougs (or Scottish pillory) for saying ` ` there were mair fules in the laird's ha 'house than Davie Gellatley,' '
The Waverley
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The royal prerogative is also being used to deny people a British passport.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the circumstances, I would refuse the applications for prerogative writs.
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Collecting, however, is not the prerogative of the rich.
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The Prime Minister exercised his prerogative to decide when to call an election.
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The cruel exercise of the royal prerogative in 2004 banned them once again.
Times, Sunday Times
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First, I feel that you should know that I am by no means an expert on Canon Law, and my observations about vestries and their prerogatives come more from my experience than my the study of Canons.
Remaining Episcopalians?
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All and every one of these magistrates, together with the justices of peace, and the jurymen of the hundreds, amounting in the whole number to threescore and six, are the prerogative troop or phylarch of the tribe.
The Commonwealth of Oceana
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Naturally, these unfortunate other nations don't have the same prerogative to invade us and change our government if they determine us to be guilty of roguery.
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And give the law out ther I in my fathers lif to take prerogative and tyth of knees from elder kinsmen and him bynd by my place to give the smooth and dexte way to me that owe it him by nature, sure thes things not phisickt by respecte might turne or bloud to much Coruption. but moore. the more thou hast ether of honor office wealth and calling wch might accite thee to embrace and hugg them the more doe thou in serpents natures thinke them feare ther gay skinns wth thought of ther sharpe state
Sir Thomas More
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It is not the Chair's prerogative to determine the declaration of a vote.
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It's easier, probably a lot less risky, and takes full advantage of the prerogatives of office.
