The choice of emperor became more and more openly the prerogative of the military, not the Senate; and, as mentioned, in the 260s senators were being largely displaced from high military commands.
The theatre has the power — more like the prerogative — to warp reality to suit its own ends, exiting the literal world through whatever trapdoors it creates.
But the rapid spread of right-to-work laws is giving more workers the prerogative to opt out of funding the unions that represent them.
But unlike Mr. Valenti, a close aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson, Mr. Dodd has been more accustomed to the prerogatives of a senior legislator than to tending the egos and needs of a boss — or in this case, a committee of them.
In older, and frankly more chauvinist times, Stanley Baldwin identified "the prerogative of the harlot through the ages", as "power without responsibility".
On Thursday the justice secretary, Jack Straw, at least partially lifted the curtain on and promised more reform of the arcane workings of the prerogative.
I just think expanding the league to the south east is a more important prerogative.
That, of course, is the prerogative of media tycoons (though Rupert Murdoch is slightly more reticent about internal appointments).
In this sense, Lou Dobbs and his guests defend through their manner more than their words the prerogatives of men.On Wednesday, I speculated about the sometimes fanciful liberal tendency to see themselves as drum majors of history.
How this difference becomes understood as undesirable or unintelligible, and how it becomes the prerogative of students to police and regulate this difference is far more complicated.
