Sentence examples for that the prerogative from inspiring English sources

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.

However, developments focused on the substance of the issues at hand, rather than merely accepting that the prerogative power is non-justiciable per se.

This changed with the Divisional Court's decision in R. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Bentley (1993), which held that the prerogative of mercy is reviewable in some circumstances.

The Laker Airways case lent further weight to the idea that prerogative powers should be subject to stronger judicial review, with Lord Denning saying that "...seeing that the prerogative is a discretionary power to be exercised for the public good, it follows that its exercise can be examined by the courts just as any other discretionary power which is vested in the executive".

The ancient remedies of certiorari, mandamus, prohibition and habeas corpus were originally only available to the British Crown and thus termed prerogative writs, that is, writs that could be issued at the prerogative of the sovereign.

But Coppola seems to have sensed the slightness at the heart of these stories and, with that lack of humbug that is the prerogative of novice directors, has not done anything to cover for it.

This would respond to a chemical that remained the prerogative of the company that produced the seeds, and the genes would not work without it.

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

That was the prerogative of the French émigré intellectuals.

That is the prerogative of labor unions, which typically bargain on an industrywide basis.

That is the prerogative solely of the bowler's end umpire.