Sentence examples for prerogative rather than from inspiring English sources

But the right to publish anonymously as a choice an internal, artistic prerogative rather than an externally imposed condition is one that women have only recently earned.

Yet the signing, which feels to some like a matter of presidential prerogative rather than tactical necessity, has provoked significant doubts – not least because Barcelona's priority was a defender.

Instead, the statements seem more concerned to note that the President is not giving up any options or powers — as if bringing accused murderers to court were a prerogative, rather than an obligation.

In this case, their Lordships unanimously held that executive action was not immune from judicial review merely because it was carried out in pursuance of a power derived from the common law (or the prerogative) rather than a statutory source.

In an effort to validate the lives of single women, the accomplished women who have written about them perpetuate the image of their situation as a plight rather than a prerogative, the lack of a lifestyle rather than a lifestyle (and, given the compelling statistics, not even an alternative lifestyle).

He challenged the notion of supernatural creation, informing his democratic artisans that humans had risen from animals a lowly-ancestor-bright-future image that appealed to the downtrodden and that Darwin's Nature was a book open for all to read, rather than the prerogative of priests.

"We're ready to strike; the picket signs are in the schools," said Ted Kirsch, the union president who heard thousands of members roar approval for a strike rather than surrender prerogatives of their old contract.

Fisman and Miguel sought to test the opposite hypothesis: who, in the absence of any legal penalty — the diplomats enjoyed immunity and would never be punished for failure to pay parking tickets — would pay, rather than abuse this prerogative?

So on Guy's account, Becket died for the prerogatives of the See of Canterbury rather than the freedom of the universal church.

Negotiating with Arabs and Palestinians based on satisfying their key political requirements, rather than on maximizing Israeli prerogatives, might yield more security and legitimacy.

However, developments focused on the substance of the issues at hand, rather than merely accepting that the prerogative power is non-justiciable per se.