Although Pinochet no longer has the same prerogatives for the use of force to defend his integrity, he is Commander Emeritus for Life of the Army and has at his disposal a contingent of military bodyguards, armored Mercedes-Benzes, and an ambulance, which accompanies him everywhere.
This gave SACEUR the same prerogatives for automatic use of nuclear weapons as existed for the commander-in-chief of the U.S. Strategic Air Command.
The concept of the existence of variation among individuals of the same species (a prerogative for the future understanding of natural selection) is nowhere to be found in either curricula or textbooks--during the whole six years of primary education.
Although the stadtholders (who after a few years came to be drawn exclusively from the house of Orange) were elected by the States of the provinces, they at the same time possessed important prerogatives in the selection of members of the town governments from which the provincial assemblies ultimately derived their authority, and they were the acknowledged military leaders of the republic.
The Court also suggested that the same test applied to applications for prerogative orders.
With regard to the issue of "first use," every president since Harry Truman has subscribed to the same posture: the United States retains the prerogative of employing nuclear weapons to defend itself and its allies against even nonnuclear threats.
From its very beginnings, Hasidism encountered strong resistance from official Judaism, which had been sensitized to the anarchism of the Shabbetaians and which at the same time was solicitous toward the prerogatives of the community leaders and rabbis.
That argument, in which he was joined by Senator Robert C. Byrd, Democrat of West Virginia, a fierce guardian of Senate prerogatives, was much the same as the one made 38 years ago by Ernest Gruening, Democrat of Alaska, who was one of only two senators to vote against the Tonkin Gulf resolution.
I thank all of the parties for having arrived at a text that seems to us to respect the Commission's institutional prerogatives and, at the same time, seems to be a response to the legitimate expectations of the Member States and of Parliament.
In 1938, the writs were abolished in the United Kingdom and replaced by prerogative orders with essentially the same names and functions.
