Sentence examples for individual prerogative from inspiring English sources

A concept of agricultural land ownership was gradually developing, being at this point a matter of family, not individual prerogative.

"These abusive arrests cause direct and significant harm to those arrested and, more generally, undermine the appropriate balance between police authority and individual prerogative to question the exercise of that authority".

The university comprises individuals who are free to pursue their own lines of inquiry and study; by contrast, unions rely on standardized solutions that restrict individual prerogatives.

Noting that he didn't mention the Party at all in our conversation, I asked: "In this vision of a 'democratic system of law' in accord with Chinese socialism, will the law ultimately be above the Party, or the Party above the law?" To the audible gasps of his handlers seated behind us, Qiao replied: "No organization or individual has the prerogative to override the constitution or the law".

One unsigned comment called the candidate "inwardly a frightened person who sees himself as weak and threatened by strong virile power around him," and added that "his call for aggressiveness and the need for individual strength and prerogatives is an attempt to defend himself against and to deny his feelings of weakness".

Mr. Semeta, the European Union tax official, acknowledged that halting such practices is hard because fixing tax rates remains the prerogative of individual European states.

Furthermore, international law does not as yet recognize a "human right to citizenship" for migrants, and considers this a sovereign prerogative of individual states.

A former council president, Marc Angel, a sharp critic, told me the group "decided to capitulate" to Amar and robbed individual rabbis of their prerogative to measure the needs and commitment of prospective converts.

At present, the authorities at the European Commission, the E.U.'s administrative arm, regard curriculum policy as the prerogative of individual countries and are loathe to interfere after an earlier E.U. attempt to create a new history textbook ended in failure.

Recall here Cohen's acceptance of the idea that each individual has a Scheffler prerogative to pursue her own projects and aims, to some extent, and not always to be acting with a view to promoting justice.

She's not hard to look at for a while!" But when he got to discussing the abuse of earmarks — one of McCain's defining issues — Martinez defended the federal government's role, as opposed to the prerogatives of individual members of Congress, in deciding how money should be spent.