Sentence examples for of their prerogative from inspiring English sources

The last was the master stroke, as it rallied the medical fraternity, who do not, collectively speaking, give a whoop about birth control, but who are extremely jealous of their prerogative of privacy.

"Presidents are very protective of their prerogative, but what I'd say to him is that Congress has its own prerogative and it's the power of the purse," Mr. Warner said in an interview.

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.

We are the only county in the region that has nothing  The Guangan authorities are taking advantage of their prerogative [as the hometown of Deng] to monopolise resources".

Senators jealous of their prerogatives in confirming presidential nominations are grumbling about being bypassed.

The stars went through each new score counting arias, jealous of their prerogatives, astute about their chances.

Although he tried to appease the Czechs, the stubborn insistence of the Germans not to yield any of their prerogatives made reform of the empire impossible.

Egypt's generals, who seized power at Mr. Mubarak's ouster and who relinquished it to Mr. Morsi only in August, retain many of their prerogatives.

That failure follows the failure of Whitlam's Schools Commission, established in 1973 to prosecute a national approach but dead within a decade, victim of states and non-government systems jealous of their prerogatives.

The courts deferred for too long to presidential authority, and only now with the recent Supreme Court decision, on the rights of enemy combatants at Guantánamo Bay, that "a state of war is not a blank check for the president," have they begun to claw back some of their prerogatives of judicial review.

State governors are powerful, jealous of their prerogatives and often the kind of folk who, ahem, are glad that a governorship confers immunity from prosecution.Not only is the government starting to spend within its means; the reformers are also trying to ensure that public funds are spent more transparently.