Sentence examples for prerogative at from inspiring English sources

If this is a leader's sincere belief, then it's his/her prerogative, at least until the next election.

He had neither added to his six Test centuries nor his 14 five-wicket spoils but even so, the announcement by the chairman of selectors, Alec Bedser, that Botham would have been dismissed had he not pre-empted it with his resignation was at best a petty demonstration of prerogative, at worst spiteful and vindictive.

Stephen Báthory was determined to reassert the deteriorated royal prerogative, at the cost of alienating the powerful noble families.

Both Perry and Abbott view the "Obama Administration and the federal government as interfering with the state's prerogatives at every turn," Jillson says.

He offered Napoleon his help during the Hundred Days (1815), stood by his side in Paris, and was the last to defend Napoleon's prerogatives at the time of his second abdication.

As for the AFL-CIO and the teachers' union, their goal is to preserve collective bargaining rights and union prerogatives at a time when membership has declined in all but public employee unions.

It turns on the extent of the Crown's powers under its prerogative [explained at 24-29].

Some Korean-American mothers who claim that it is their prerogative, or at least it should be, to be granted the right of first refusal on their children's marital selections, are known to search the Web for mates on sites like Duo.

In the United Kingdom, "My Prerogative" debuted at number 87 on December 10 , 1989

Greatest Hits: My Prerogative debuted at the top of the charts in Ireland and Japan, and the top ten in other fourteen countries, including Australia, Canada, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Greatest Hits: My Prerogative debuted at the top of the DVD charts in Australia, number two in Hungary and number nine on Billboard's Top Music Videos.