And, despite Brown's apparent willingness to let go of some royal prerogatives, the PM still enjoys enormous personal power.
Therefore, their commitment will be secured and shared in advance only when they're particularly confident they'll attend an event, if they need to reserve a spot before it fills up, or if there's some other similar prerogative.
In other cultures and religions, personal guidance is often a prerogative of some person or persons singled out for some reason by God or the gods.
But because it lacks another candidate with the stature of Mr. Weber, Germany may trade its prerogative for some other concession in the continuing talks about how to remake European governance.
It is a vantage point from which it looks disappointingly as if precisely nothing has been achieved for women's happiness over 80 years, other than to transfer some of the victimhood prerogative to a gay man.
On Oct. 1, 1969, he recalled that at an official meeting where he described the war in Vietnam as an unpopular political disaster, "there were at least a few persons who seem to think the war is some kind of presidential prerogative which we must not allow college boys or effeminate professors to infringe".
Opposition to ship money steadily grew, but the 12 common law judges of England declared that the tax was within the king's prerogative, though some of them had reservations.
"Slut Like You" isn't a competitive put-down; in this rocker with major debts to Blur's "Song 2" (complete with a "whoo-hoo!"), Pink laughingly but insistently defends a woman's prerogative to "get some".
The pace has slowed some too, as is the Italians' prerogative.
Faced with the peculiar threats of our era, the next Democrat to occupy the Oval Office may well find herself wanting to exercise some of the prerogatives asserted by Bush.
