Sentence examples for prerogative to appoint from inspiring English sources

Before the Norman Conquest (1066) it was the king's prerogative to appoint bishops to vacant sees.

Proportional representation would be likely at some point to lead to the election of a hung Parliament and suddenly, the monarch's prerogative to appoint a prime minister would become more than a polite fiction.Would people still want a king as head of state, if the head of state had real power to exercise?

Perhaps the President retains his prerogative to appoint the Census Bureau Director himself.

In October 1106, they solemnly informed the pope of Coloman's renunciation of his royal prerogative to appoint the prelates.

It has been suggested by the historian Emma Mason that Edward refused to remove Stigand because this would have undermined the royal prerogative to appoint bishops and archbishops without papal input.

That evening, she called Governor David Paterson — whose prerogative it was to appoint Hillary Clinton's successor to the Senate — to withdraw her name from consideration.

The prerogative empowers the monarch to appoint bishops and archbishops in the Church of England, and to regulate the printing and licensing of the authorised Church of England version of the Bible.

The only difference from current practice is that certain states would exercise their absolute prerogative under Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution to "appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors" by appointing electors pledged to the winner of the national vote instead of by appointing electors pledged to the winner of the vote in their state alone.

Despite the increasing diminution of state ownership, the government retains prerogative powers through dominant shareholder right and the ability to appoint key positions in joint stock companies operating in key industrial sectors (Vuong, 2014).

"In the broader view, I suppose it is the prerogative of this administration to set the goals of federal agencies and to appoint members to advisory boards".

Mr. Blair, the intelligence director, was pushing to appoint the senior intelligence officials in each country overseas, a traditional prerogative of the C.I.A.