The bishop of the civil capital, Caesarea, was, according to the usual rule, metropolitan of the province, but the bishops of Jerusalem were claiming special prerogatives as early as the first Council of Nicaea (325).
Ms. Pelosi, who exerted a special procedural prerogative to bring forth the resolution, said afterward that she was prompted to do so by Mr. DeLay's suggestion that he had been exonerated.
In other tribes, such as the Cherokees, stratification was relatively unimportant, although certain clans might possess special ceremonial prerogatives and recruitment to certain offices might be determined on the basis of clan.
Tudor historians were generally favourably inclined towards the king, focusing on John's opposition to the Papacy and his promotion of the special rights and prerogatives of a king.
In the United States, unlike Britain and France, trial organization did not remain the prerogative of special cancer centers or of teaching hospitals, it permeated all levels of practice (and this is increasingly true of radiological partnerships, involved with adjuvant trials), though it remained organized from the academic centers.
Although creativity does remain debated concept, some literature increasingly tends not to consider it as a prerogative of few special human agents.
In the case of shootings involving the police such as that of Andrew Loku earlier this year the Special Investigative Unit (SIU) has the prerogative to invoke a mandate that prevents the police from giving details about a crime.
We can call it sacred space but the demarcation of special times or spaces is not the prerogative only of the religious.
(I know I'm extrapolating from county to state elections--but that's my prerogative in trying to add some special interest to this election for sports fanatics).
In trying to eliminate even these narrow limits on presidential prerogative, Mr. Bush has accused the Democrats of putting "special interests" -- by which he means unions and workers -- above the nation's security.
Yesterday, a special committee of Hollinger International's directors sought to exercise boardroom prerogative by filing suit in the Delaware court to block Lord Black's deal, and by adopting a poison-pill provision that could make it financially undesirable for the Barclays to proceed with their purchase.
