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In addition, President Mubarak exercised his prerogative by appointing 44 members.

Where is the debate about the use and abuse of royal prerogative by successive prime ministers?

His films for other directors include "The Addiction" (1995), directed by Abel Ferrara, in which Father Castle exercised his priestly prerogative by performing an exorcism on Lili Taylor.

FRANKFURT — Under growing international and financial market pressure to fix the region's bank problems, European officials took a step on Tuesday toward surrendering a cherished national prerogative by proposing to knit banking systems together more closely.

It concluded that the exercise of the royal prerogative by the government to deploy armed forces overseas is "outdated and should not be allowed to continue as the basis for legitimate war-making in our 21st century democracy".

Yesterday, a special committee of Hollinger International's directors sought to exercise boardroom prerogative by filing suit in the Delaware court to block Lord Black's deal, and by adopting a poison-pill provision that could make it financially undesirable for the Barclays to proceed with their purchase.

Napier exercised a conqueror's prerogatives by burning down Magdala and giving the territory to the Galla queen Masteeat — a historical figure, unlike Flashman's slimmer bints.

It was almost surreal: how could a president limit his constitutional powers and prerogatives by allowing a vice president to veto his choices?

The Mail says: "Britain's Parliament, for too long supine in the face of the erosion of its powers and prerogatives by European institutions, has finally struck back".

The legislation would intrude on home-rule prerogatives by repealing the district's restrictions on semiautomatic weapons, rolling back requirements for registering most guns and even dropping existing criminal penalties for owners of unregistered firearms.

Although they opposed the increasing infringement on papal prerogatives by national governments, they embraced the idea of structural modernization, which led to greater centralization in the church around the papacy.