Sentence examples for exercised his prerogative from inspiring English sources

In addition, President Mubarak exercised his prerogative by appointing 44 members.

King Abdullah, unlike Mr Mubarak, has twice exercised his prerogative to dissolve parliament.A general election scheduled for November 9th follows a year of direct royal rule, during which time some 30 laws were passed.

It felt like a summation the President exercising his prerogative to have the last word.

Surely Mr. Bush will exercise his prerogative to address the nation in prime time.

Before the Judiciary Committee, Mr. Ashcroft persisted in this demagogic attack, insisting that he was merely exercising his prerogative as a senator to reach an independent judgment.

When Mr. Sulzberger wanted to exercise his prerogative and make his likes and dislikes known, he usually did so through interoffice memorandums, signing them with the nickname he had carried since childhood, Punch.

Maurice did not himself dictate the sentence, but he ostentatiously refrained from exercising his prerogative of pardon, and he personally endorsed the demand for the probably illegal forfeiture of Oldenbarnevelt's property.

The execution, the first in France for two years, and the twentieth in the last 20 years, took place a few hours after President Giscard D'Estaing had refused to exercise his prerogative of mercy.

After exercising his prerogative to keep his admirers waiting, he would emerge to stroll through the grounds, suffering 'appropriately qualified persons' to gawp at him, while the excluded populace peered from a safe distance through the iron gates of his compound.

It may be that, with the magnificent self-belief of the artist, and displeased with a British establishment that had misrepresented a serious work of art, he was exercising his prerogative of deciding who gets to see his film and where.

At first, William hesitated to exercise his prerogative to dissolve Parliament because elections had just been held the year before and the country was in a state of high excitement which might boil over into violence.