Put it another way: If Texas exercised its prerogative to break into smaller states, Haskell and Kermit would still be in the same state.
Alinghi had just won the Cup in Valencia, Spain, and, exercising its prerogative as champion to set the terms for the next race, agreed to accept the Spanish syndicate Club Náutico Español de Vela as the challenger of record.
In this case, the institution is exercising its prerogative to establish an employer-employee relationship.
As for the shareholders, if it was a good deal to sell the company essentially for no premium -- as Mr. Schacht and his bankers had tentatively agreed to do -- it is hard to understand why it would suddenly become a bad deal were Alcatel to exercise its 58percentt prerogative by controlling the board.
The best way forward in this extremely unfortunate state of affairs is therefore for parliament to vote on the UK staying in the EU, which must weigh at least as much as the referendum in the government's decision whether to exercise its royal prerogative.
All it has to do is exercise its overriding constitutional prerogative and give the nominee a little upfront advice before it provides any final consent: Answer our questions, or you won't get confirmed.
On Thursday evening, a portion of the British media exercised its own prerogative: to attack the judges behind the ruling.
Exercising its constitutional prerogative, Congress elected him to fill out Mr. de la Rúa's four-year term, and abandoned its earlier plan to hold new elections in March.
I was taken to task by our deputy chairman, a fine man indeed, over my remark last week about the AV referendum when I suggested that the nation is not exactly breathless in anticipation of exercising its democratic prerogative on 5 May.
An Order in Council is a law made directly by the British Crown in the exercise of its prerogative law-making power it previously possessed in respect of Singapore.
