Sentence examples for prerogative granted from inspiring English sources

Mr. Hopkins, indulging a time-honored prerogative granted to slumming British actors, allows himself an occasional twinkle of amusement as he delivers fatherly advice, the gruesome import of which Lawrence will take much too long to figure out.

The prerogatives and authority granted to the legislature within the Constitution meant that it could and would play a major and indispensable role in the functioning of the government it was not just a rubber stamp.

It has also been revealed that 13 Royal Prerogatives of Mercy were granted under the On the Runs scheme between 2000 and 2002.

Following the change, paragraph 1 of the First Schedule to the Supreme Court of Judicature Act, which is entitled "Prerogative orders", now states that the High Court possesses the following power: The Subordinate Courts are not empowered to grant prerogative orders.

Elizabeth had sense enough to avoid a showdown with the Commons, and she retreated under parliamentary attack on the issue of her prerogative rights to grant monopolies regulating and licensing the economic life of the kingdom, but on the subject of her religious settlement she refused to budge.

The monarch also has power to exercise her prerogative over the granting of honours, the regulation of the armed forces and ecclesiastical appointments.

Following law reforms in the United Kingdom in 1977, it became possible for the High Court of England and Wales to grant prerogative orders as well as a declaration or injunction in the same set of legal proceedings.

Mr. Vaziyev also told the dancers that they would not be granted the sometime prerogative of guest artists to bring their own costumes.

While the issue was still pending in court, the SP decided to change the course of the route, claiming that was its prerogative, despite the Department of the Interior having already granted homestead rights.

Many activities taken for granted in America as prerogatives of government have long since been privatized in foreign nations — even in what so many Americans view as socialistic Europe.

This was backed up by The Zamora, where the Privy Council held generally that to exercise a power not granted by statute (such as a prerogative) the government must prove to the court that the exercise is justified.