Between 1960 and 2000 the Western share of rich countries has been increasing; to be affluent has almost become an exclusive Western prerogative--16 out of 19 non-Western nations who were rich in 1960 traversed into less affluent categories by 2000 (for example, Algeria, Angola, and Argentina).
All this is perfectly in line with Aronofsky's prevailing ethos of adamantine self-punishment, even as it usurps divine prerogative – Noah has almost become a deity unto himself, dispensing his own justice.
Political history makes clear that if Republican and Democratic members fail to unite in defending the institutional prerogatives of Congress, it will become a vassal of the president.
Managing supply and demand, once the prerogative of the utilities' planners, has become a process shaped largely by an energy company's appetite for risk.
In a church where officials still put more energy into protecting their arcane prerogatives than protecting children, Martin has become a hero merely by stating the obvious.
But in just a few years, part-time work has ceased being the prerogative of woman with little career ambition, and become a powerful tool to attract and retain talent — male and female — in a competitive Dutch labor market.
They laughed together at any predestinatory prerogative of her mother's, or the alternative paternal one — to be expected to become a doctor!
Exercising our editorial prerogative had absolutely nothing to do with censorship or Alan Dershowitz's position on Israel, but rather our desire not to have the Huffington Post become a forum for unending personal battles and potentially libelous charges.
One of the great things about the music of John Dowland is the degree to which it gives performers control of matters that eventually became a composer's prerogative.
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA — Making war, traditionally a prerogative of presidents and princes, may soon become an international crime.
