Or will they exercise a gender-exclusive prerogative, which was to change their minds?
Because he was due for relief in the summer of 1927, the admiral exercised a prerogative he was never bashful about using: he always let his seniors know what he preferred for a next assignment.
Napier exercised a conqueror's prerogatives by burning down Magdala and giving the territory to the Galla queen Masteeat — a historical figure, unlike Flashman's slimmer bints.
Napier exercised a conqueror's prerogatives by burning down Magdala and giving the territory to the Galla queen Masteeat a historical figure, unlike Flashman's slimmer bints.
This was backed up by The Zamora, where the Privy Council held generally that to exercise a power not granted by statute (such as a prerogative) the government must prove to the court that the exercise is justified.
"They have had a year and a half to exercise that prerogative and, now that they have blown through that deadline, most people would acknowledge that is a privilege they should relinquish … rather than get into additional political gamesmanship".
McArdle, also serving a 25-year term over the Docklands bombing which killed two men in February 1996 as the first IRA ceasefire collapsed, was freed after Peter Mandelson, the Northern Ireland secretary, asked the Queen to exercise the royal prerogative of mercy.
It gives me great pleasure to exercise the presidential prerogative of serving as the bookends to your Princeton education.
The prime minister could exercise the royal prerogative and authorise action.
In cases where the implementation of the Withdrawal Agreement calls for a change to the acquis, Parliament, like the Council, must be able to exercise its legislative prerogative.
Of course, it's possible that he was simply trying to even a score, or otherwise exercise the bureaucrat's prerogative to throw an elbow.
