Sentence examples for Absolute prerogative from inspiring English sources

Valencia said the country would respond to the lawsuit and that it had the "absolute prerogative and right" to protect its offices, workers and Assange himself inside its embassy.

The only difference from current practice is that certain states would exercise their absolute prerogative under Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution to "appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors" by appointing electors pledged to the winner of the national vote instead of by appointing electors pledged to the winner of the vote in their state alone.

Both Charles and James were advocates of the divine right of kings, but while James's ambitions concerning absolute prerogative were tempered by compromise and consensus with his subjects, Charles believed that he had no need to compromise or even to explain his actions.

This history can be told as one of two broad movements — the first, a centuries long evolution towards a European continent, then a globe, of sovereign states, the second, a circumscription of absolute sovereign prerogatives in the second half of the twentieth century.

And it's absolutely her prerogative.

This bureaucracy was the buttress indeed, the substance of an absolute monarchy whose prerogatives knew few internal bounds.

It gives more powers to Parliament and the prime minister, but preserves most of the king's prerogatives, including absolute control over military and religious issues.

The vote and the renewed promise to allow women greater future political participation demonstrate the careful steps that Saudi rulers appear to be taking to preserve the prerogatives of absolute rule and shield their kingdom from greater demands for democracy that have spread through the region.

In situations in which Congress has explicitly authorized the president's action, the court has recognized the prerogative as almost absolute.

It is moreover not necessarily a problem that mental health issues are treated here with absolute lack of taste; it is the prerogative of satires or black comedies or scary movies to offend, to lead us down the shock corridor of provocation.

That is to lose their prerogatives, their rights to an absolute state.