Sentence examples for at the prerogative of from inspiring English sources

The ancient remedies of certiorari, mandamus, prohibition and habeas corpus were originally only available to the British Crown and thus termed prerogative writs, that is, writs that could be issued at the prerogative of the sovereign.

Knowledge of the subtleties of mensural (precisely measured) music was at first the prerogative of a small number of initiates.

Traditionally at common law, the prerogative of mercy – that is, the power of the executive government to pardon or to grant clemency to a convicted criminal – was regarded as outside the courts' supervisory jurisdiction and hence non-justiciable.

I've actually had a letter from the Home Office telling me that if it was ever to become law, it would require the written permission of the Queen, because it gives parliament back the power of dissolution, which at the moment is the prerogative of the Queen.

Besides, to be afraid of death, and thus to clutch at ghosts of happiness, is hardly the prerogative of the teen-ager alone; let he who is without fear cast the first stone.

While it is true that senior Catholic clerics balked at racial dogmas that cut across the prerogative of the church to convert Jews and to define who was a Christian, Nazi racial anti-semitism easily nested within traditional forms of Jew hatred.

The second unusual feature of linear ubiquitin chain assembly is that it is the E3 that determines the nature of the linkage in these chains [ 15] - a decision that is normally the prerogative of the E2, at least in reactions involving RING-class E3s [ 22].

Mr. Coates, 37, the director of athletics at Middletown High School in Middletown, N.Y., said that it's the prerogative of the hosts to call the tune.

This is not the prerogative of the ruler; every one is at once their own 'king', their own 'legislator'; but also the 'first-born of their subjects'.

"This remains the prerogative of the prosecution".

Greed is the prerogative of American elites.