Sentence examples for to the prerogative from inspiring English sources

Some judges, he said, "want to make sure they put enough white people to death to hang on to the prerogative" of override.

"Sovereignty" points to the prerogative of states to act, but only insofar as the state is in line with those standards.

But there's an appealingly metaphysical aspect to its recognition that not everything — our devices and, by extension, ourselves — can be "on" all the time, that each of us is entitled to the prerogative of occasional self-erasure.

They note heroes (Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Jesus, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the 18th century), villains (Thomas ­Hobbes, John Calvin, the 19th century), tracking how kindness was "steadily downgraded from a universal imperative to the prerogative of specific social constituencies: romantic poets, clergymen, charity workers, and — above all — women".

In contrast to the prerogative orders which are termed public law remedies, the declaration is called a private law remedy as it was originally developed in court cases between private parties.

Perishable, it attempts to arrogate to itself the prerogative of imperishable time, of separating good books from bad".

Germany has favoured giving the job to a bureaucrat unlikely to mount much of a challenge to the prerogatives of national governments.

Much of the blame went also to Karl Rove, Mr. Bush's chief political tactician, who is credited with the president's successes but is now being described as insensitive to the prerogatives of Congress.

What will make the Army stronger is its ability to stand by young women at every stage of their military careers, not our willingness to defer to the prerogatives of generals who are on the front pages of newspapers.

The first is the extraordinary deference the courts have paid to the prerogatives of corporate governance.

Constitutional provisions related to the prerogatives of presidents and governments were frequently subject to political conflict during the 1990s.