Sentence examples for wide prerogatives from inspiring English sources

Equally troubling are the wide prerogatives related to surveillance, detention and interrogation that this president has asserted as commander in chief.

But critics say its constitution gives the monarchy wide prerogatives from the dissolution of parliament and the imposition of the state of emergency to a say on appointments of key government portfolios including the prime minister.

"They have a wide prerogative to use force".

At first the central government intended to grant wide-ranging prerogatives to three historically recognized nationalities: Catalonia, the Basque country and Galicia.

He possessed a wide range of royal prerogatives, including coinage.

This is particularly true where the errors are those of omission, where the standards come from multiple non-punitive doctrinal publications, where there is less than complete and certain knowledge of enemy capabilities and intent, and where commanders enjoy wide discretion in their exercise of their command prerogatives and responsibilities.

The measures will include a bill to eliminate the prime minister's traditional power to call a new election at any time during the five-year life of each parliament, among the prerogatives that have given British prime ministers a wide and sometimes overbearing authority in their dealings with legislators.

Despite the government's denials, Mr Sondhi's claims that it ferried guests to Mr Thaksin's sister's birthday party on an air-force plane, padded the purchase price of luggage scanners for Bangkok's new airport, and usurped the prerogatives of the country's Buddhist patriarch, to name a few have received wide coverage.

Shute engaged in a wide array of disputes with the Massachusetts General Court (the provincial assembly) concerning the royal prerogative and other issues.

Similarly, in cases of demonstrable and wide-reaching failure, the commercial prerogative impacts on the ability to govern that failure, resulting in 'civil dislocation': the mismatch between the functions that government institutions are supposed to perform and their actual practice (Jasanoff [1997]).

Without debate, the Republican-controlled House of Delegates, with wide support from Democrats, voted 80 to 17 Wednesday to accept Senate amendments to a bill that supporters say preserves Virginia's prerogatives as a state.