Sentence examples for use prerogative from inspiring English sources

On Thursday the high court ruled that the prime minister was acting unlawfully in seeking to use prerogative powers to invoke article 50, and reminded her that only parliament can make or repeal laws.

The high court's ruling was comprehensively in favour of parliament and against invoking Article 50 using prerogative powers.

The high court ruled last week parliament must be given a say on triggering the two-year process for leaving the EU, which the government had argued it could do using prerogative powers.

Certain types of governmental discretion, exercised using prerogative powers, were regarded as beyond the scope of judicial scrutiny because they involved issues of substantive policy.

The use of prerogative powers [to trigger Brexit] was wholly within the expectation of parliament.

The government argued that it could use royal prerogative powers (namely, that residue of monarchical authority now exercised by ministers) to authorise the UK's withdrawal.

The new prime minister and her ministers at the Department of Business and Energy, Greg Clark and Nick Hurd, should use the prerogative of a new government: stop it, now.

Ed Miliband got up to ask for a guarantee from the prime minister that he would not use the prerogative powers to join action regardless of the wishes of parliament.

On Thursday morning, the high court ruled that parliament – and not the prime minister by use of prerogative powers – would need to trigger Article 50 to start the UK's exit from the European Union.

The government had refused to allow its legal opponents to reveal before the case its explanation of why it ought to be able to use royal prerogative powers to trigger article 50.

Announcing the Welsh government's involvement, Mick Antoniw, an assembly member and counsel general for Wales, said he would raise concerns about the impact of Theresa May's attempt to use royal prerogative powers on the devolved assembly.