Sentence examples for that prerogative from inspiring English sources

"In some ways the use of these devices denies that prerogative.

They are deeply reluctant to concede that prerogative to the European parliament, but were caught napping by a parliament power play.

Commission chiefs have always been appointed as a result of horse-trading between national leaders who jealously guard that prerogative and view the key post as too important to be left to the vagaries of Europe's voters.

In any event, there is a growing constitutional convention that prerogative powers are subject to parliamentary approval, as we saw with the Commons vote in August 2013 against air strikes on Syria.

Government lawyers had argued that prerogative powers were a legitimate way to give effect "to the will of the people" who voted by a clear majority to leave the EU in the June referendum.

Government lawyers argued that prerogative powers were a legitimate way to give effect "to the will of the people", who voted by a clear majority to leave the European Union in the June referendum.

Blackstone, however, maintains that the prerogative simply covers those actions that no other person or body in the United Kingdom can undertake, such as the dissolution of Parliament.

That's the prerogative of the private citizens, that you can make these great arguments that no one ever hears.

If they want to do business only with nice, easy customers, that is their prerogative.

If they didn't want to play, that was their prerogative.

It was a sense of family prerogative that both Prescott's son and grandson inherited.