Sentence examples for have a prerogative from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, at least as Lessing understood him, Spinoza also differentiated acquaintance with what is true from acquaintance with what is good and identified knowledge of the good with the "will" insofar as through it one thought does have a prerogative over another.

"We have inherited a history that the Muslim Brotherhood seems to have a prerogative to define who is a Muslim and who is not a muslim and they are not in that position.

And some Senate delegations, she said, "are extremely ideological and don't consent to the idea that elections matter and that the president should have a prerogative in filling these positions".

But McCain, who is gravely ill, has a prerogative to speak beyond the current political moment while he can.

He said that if the election in Florida was not resolved promptly, it could wind up in the hands of the Legislature, which has a prerogative to choose the state's electors itself.

I appreciate that as a private club it has a prerogative to decide, and am certain that I wouldn't be able to influence a clearly outdated organization to change its views.

In November 1627, the test case in the King's Bench, the "Five Knights' Case", found that the king had a prerogative right to imprison without trial those who refused to pay the forced loan.

"They have a wide prerogative to use force".

For any students who live in zone four or above, a cycle into university may mean a grueling ride along dangerously busy roads, dodging HGV trucks and buses which seem to have a hidden prerogative to squash you.

Yes, one could cooperate, and I won't speak for the Assembly, but we have an institutional prerogative here to defend the institution".

Stroud holds that participants in shared activity have a prerogative a moral permission that can override or mitigate moral obligations had to non-participants (such as that of beneficence).