Sentence examples for existing prerogatives from inspiring English sources
At the same time, the emperor retained most of his existing prerogatives, so that the real locus of power in case of a conflict was unclear.
Many of the previous checks and balances have been eroded, and some of the pre-existing autocratic prerogatives in the hands of successive prime ministers have been consolidated further.
Mr. Levine, as is his prerogative, conducted a version that he and advisers at the Met fashioned from existing sources.
That was the message of a decision upholding the 1998 extension of existing copyrights by 20 years: perhaps it is an unwise law but clearly within Congress's prerogative, the majority said.
These include the practicing engineer's unquestioning faith in the existing unquantified methodologies, the historical precedence of code revision resulting in less safety, the perceived need for jurisdiction prerogative, and the assignment of the responsibility for choosing acceptable reliability levels.
The legislation would intrude on home-rule prerogatives by repealing the district's restrictions on semiautomatic weapons, rolling back requirements for registering most guns and even dropping existing criminal penalties for owners of unregistered firearms.
In February 1587 Sir Anthony Cope presented to the speaker a bill abrogating the existing ecclesiastical law, together with a Puritan revision of the Prayer Book, and Wentworth supported him by bringing forward certain articles on the liberties of the House of Commons; Cope and Wentworth were both committed to the Tower for interference with the Queen's ecclesiastical prerogative.
And while bureaucrats within the existing agencies may be reluctant to share turf, can anyone seriously imagine the director of some office or the chairman of some Congressional committee arguing for personal political prerogatives when the security of 280 million Americans is at stake?
