Sentence examples for prerogative on from inspiring English sources

But the flip-side of the government's prerogative on action is that it is judged on it and the time of judgment is nigh.

Coventry, who was raised to the peerage in 1628, was loyal to Charles I and a firm supporter of the royal prerogative on such issues as ship money.

Bonds, who watched Bobby Brown perform "My Prerogative" on "The Tyra Banks Show" before agreeing to be interviewed, was surly about questions related to what could be looming.

Bobby may have had presidential prerogative on his side, but Hoover could wield files full of allegations about Jack and others.

I was taken to task by our deputy chairman, a fine man indeed, over my remark last week about the AV referendum when I suggested that the nation is not exactly breathless in anticipation of exercising its democratic prerogative on 5 May.

Douglas Graham Hamilton, South Lanarkshire The late Queen Mary would be very flattered to know that her crown, that of a queen consort with no constitutional authority (though she had a good eye for antiques), represented the royal prerogative on page five of Friday's Guardian (Whose prerogative?, 4 November).

Their game had been based on defence, the prerogative of a side one-up in the series but it meant they never had a lead that was worth more than a converted try.

I came back an hour later, cheery, harmless smile firmly in place, but the doorman broke the news gently: Mr. Miller was not interested, clearly the prerogative of anyone on Christmas, particularly someone in his late 90s.

In response, the British Parliament purchased sovereignty over the island in 1765 and acquired the Atholl family's remaining prerogatives on the island in 1828.

With the case presenting "a stark conflict between federal and state policy prerogatives on a matter of literally life-and-death significance," as judges on the First Circuit panel noted this fall, the full court was right to leave Mr. Pleau in the state prison until it resolves the case after full deliberation.

A studious and skilled actress best known for her recent turn on Broadway as Golda Meir, a determined woman asserting her prerogatives on a stage even grander than Dolly's, Ms. Feldshuh may be using an accent to reorient our perceptions of a character, but she is not distorting that character to serve her own ends.