Sentence examples for on prerogative from inspiring English sources

But with the seemingly constant new vigilance from the city, even Mr. Carter's corner on prerogative will not suffice.

If the chief executive has no part in the supreme legislative power, then the legislature could overrule the executive's decisions based on prerogative when it reconvenes.

Ian Traynor wrote in the Guardian recently:Berlin for months has been demanding to reopen the EU treaties to facilitate a big pooling or surrender of – depending on your point of view – national sovereignty to facilitate a federalised eurozone, with what amounts to a core European government of an expanding 17 countries that would take on prerogatives over tax-and-spend powers.

The fact that Brazil's step towards ceasing to be Belindia involves its "India" encroaching on prerogatives once exclusive to its "Belgium" has brought class prejudice to the surface, in politics and the media.

As a general in the Condé Nast publishing empire, Mr. Galotti treated ad sales as an all-out war and took on the prerogatives of the publishing life -- limousines, parties and celebrity -- with stylistic aggression.

Just half a dozen paragraphs after guessing it's a "safe bet" that "evidence" does not drive choice, Pondiscio declares it absolutely: "affluent parents...choose schools not on 'evidence' but on personal prerogative".

It is not hard to see how the senators' recommendations on ethics could turn into requirements and encroach on that prerogative.

The Vatican's insistence on male prerogative is misogynistic poppycock — enhancing American Catholics' disenchantment with Rome.

In another assault on bureaucratic prerogative, the government submitted a bill last month that would create an agency in the prime minister's office to decide all job appointments involving top officials, which had been decided within each ministry.

Parliament is also wary of treading on the prerogative of local officials, many of whom worry that the change will bring a return to street dealing and the crime that accompanies it.

Soon afterward, Branch writes, "Johnson's mood had turned prickly again," and, in a subsequent meeting, "he insisted on his prerogative to choose the content and moment for any voting rights bill".