Sentence examples for prerogative of leading from inspiring English sources

It was bad enough that last month Ms. Hull agreed to give up the governor's prerogative of leading the state's delegation to the Republican National Convention -- after all, Mr. McCain easily won the primary, and thus the right to control the state's 30-member delegation.

For the Islamic republic, Iranian history is, on the contrary, the gradual assumption by a hereditary clergy of the prerogatives (leading prayer, holy war, government) of the Hidden Imam, the 12th descendant of the Prophet through his daughter Fatemeh.

Each bundle had a bundle-keeper, an office that tended to be the hereditary prerogative of a few leading families.

The paternalistic "Reconstruction" specter of the South has a firm grip on Maycomb in the mid-1930s, and its long skeletal hand keeps an almost tighter hold in the mid-1950s, as the civil rights movement and a truer idea of justice for all became part of America's everyday, and fear of change and loss of prerogatives rattled the "leading citizens" of towns like Maycomb in real life.

"This remains the prerogative of the prosecution".

That's its prerogative, of course.

Greed is the prerogative of American elites.

TO CREATE life is the prerogative of gods.

That was the prerogative of the French émigré intellectuals.

Final decision is the prerogative of the ILR Graduate Committee.

These gestures used to be the prerogative of pacemen.