Sentence examples for prerogative to call from inspiring English sources

And though the last one occurred more than 30 years ago, the armed forces have not surrendered their prerogative to call politicians to heel.

Everyone had on combat fatigues, boots, and steel helmets except Cao, who asserted a general's prerogative to call attention to himself and wore the baseball-type field cap then coming into fashion in the United States Army.

Father Lombardi said that it was the pope's prerogative to phone whomever he chose and that the Vatican would not comment on every reported phone call.

It was then his prerogative to address residents' concerns.

Mr. Coates, 37, the director of athletics at Middletown High School in Middletown, N.Y., said that it's the prerogative of the hosts to call the tune.

Part of the prerogative of the president is the right to call national referendums, and to call regular and extraordinary elections to the House of Representatives, the Council of the Republic and local representative bodies.

Although the White House cited a law expanding limits on military funeral protests, it refused to call Westboro a hate group, saying that was the prerogative of private organizations like the Anti-Defamation League.

Despite a number of state courts in the USA echoed Quinlan and Cruzan on the patient's prerogative to refuse treatment[51], the recent case of Theresa Marie (Terri) Schiavo seemed to call into question past legal and ethical consensuses[52].

Nevertheless, there can be no doubt that the well-established Australia selectors' prerogative to make subjective judgement calls empowered Lehmann and his fellow selectors to make that decision.

"The case is that she cannot use something called the royal prerogative to do it because we do not live in a tinpot dictatorship," she said.

Eventually, the president agreed to reschedule, calling it "her prerogative" to postpone the speech. .