Sentence examples for prerogative went from inspiring English sources

Lunatics and idiots were administered separately by the Lord Chancellor under his two prerogatives; the appeal under the King's prerogative went directly to the King, and under the Lands of Lunatics Act to the House of Lords.

With that prerogative goes, inevitably, a greater responsibility for the quality of what you write.

As states such as Iowa and New Hampshire, which jealously guard the prerogative of going first, respond in kind, the point at which the nomination tends to be decided has retreated from June to March.

She isn't always right and, as her critics have pointed out, she's not above using the new-media prerogative of going into her archives and changing the bad call to a good one.

Of course, if this is your prerogative then go for it.

It should be my prerogative to go and get a beer without big brother telling me what to do.

AR: Because if the movie can take the prerogative to go off on a tangent and explore a theme that is important to buttress a broader understanding of where the media is going, that's a device that's more often found in a New Yorker piece.

I think it's the director's prerogative … to go back and reinvent a movie".

I think it's the director's prerogative … to go back and reinvent a movie". The DVD edition, at least, featured bonus discs holding weak transfers of the original versions, even if they felt like poorly treated outcasts, added just to prolong their humiliation at their creator's increasingly malevolent hands.

And what if a family is into some end-of-the-world cult that spends its time training to survive the zombie apocalypse; is it the government's prerogative to just go in on them, Ruby- Ridge/Waco style?

Richard was deeply perturbed by this affront to his royal prerogative, and from February to November 1387 went on a "gyration" (tour) of the country to muster support for his cause.