America, of course, has had territories of its own in the South Pacific since the Second World War… At Versailles this month the Americans were mainly uneasy over the possibility that small questions of hegemony, like the Falkland question, would end up raising bigger questions of prerogative.
"Whether or not the players that didn't play were injured or were being protected – that's Chelsea's prerogative, they've got big games coming up," Hughes said.
That's about as clear an example of an actual government-big business conspiracy and abuse of prerogative and privilege, in short of elitism, that one could find.
At a business-law panel, a top Justice Department lawyer talked about settling the Microsoft antitrust case, a move applauded by conservatives, who saw the suit as Clinton-era interference with the prerogatives of big business.
Senior Democrats like George J. Mitchell of Maine and Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii wanted part of the first big televised inquiry since Watergate, and they exercised the prerogative of their seniority.
Lambert added: "I totally understand Belgium's prerogative, they're a point away from the biggest tournament at national team level.
It should be my prerogative to go and get a beer without big brother telling me what to do.
Reminding his audience that he had won the biggest number of votes, and the biggest number of seats, the centre-right leader said that it was his prerogative to try to form an administration.
In this context the royal we is of course, preposterous, both too big for such a small desire and terribly puny for the centuries of royal prerogative that Eric evokes when he uses it.
"My prerogative is to protect the water system," said Stone Barns Algieree, calling water the biggest public health concern for agriculture outside of production.
