Sentences with phrase «prerogative by»

Probably the best case that the President can make is that he was exercising his prerogative by clearing the deck for his own appointees.

With the enhancement of the dignity of the bishop and the extension of his judicial authority under the patronage of the Empire, the old cathedra upon which the ante-Nicene bishop had sat in his capacity as teacher, was gradually converted into a veritable throne, imitative of that of the emperor.25 It is quite possible that the courtly protocol and the sartorial details of the so - called Donation of Constantine are a reasonably accurate description of the dress, insignia, and prerogatives of the chief bishop of the West in the late imperial period, that even the account of the bestowal of these privileges primarily errs in fictionally ascribing to one emperor what was probably done by several in the course of the fourth and fifth centuries, and that once the fictional monopolization of these prerogatives by one bishop is removed, the Donation is recognized as supplying us with a picture of a late imperial prelate.26

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They were terrified that Comey might once again usurp DOJ prerogatives about deciding on criminal charges by making public his views about who should be indicted.

«Poor, sad, proud, too - tender Lear: the old man who loves to be loved; the prince embarrassed by the scope of his authority, yet jealous of royalty's perquisites; the ruler willing to give away his lawful prerogatives in order to hear — if just for a moment — that sweet gush of feminine gratitude; the vain old duffer whose need for affection makes him oblivious of its counterfeit.

By exercising the divinely mandated prerogative to take the life of convicted murderers, the state neither makes itself into an idol nor cancels the possibility for individual repentance.

Infatuated with himself, he usurped the prerogatives of the Apostles by presuming to preach the Gospel in the streets, where he made many disciples, and involving them, both men and women, in a like presumption by sending them out, in turn, to preach.

«Supernaturalism,» in the sense of God's making known the divine only by divine intrusions from outside in occasional miraculous acts, is rejected; a picture of deity as remote and inaccessible is refuted; and the condemnation of secular activities as a blasphemous denial of the divine prerogative is entirely ruled out.

This does not mean, by the way, that the State should not punish those who have wronged us, nor does it mean that we should not defend the weak, the aged, the very young or the sick, but it does mean we should not seek vengeance, because that is the Lord's prerogative (Rom 12:19).

In redefining marriage and the family, the state not only embarks on an unprecedented expansion of its powers into realms heretofore considered prior to or outside its reach, and not only does it usurp functions and prerogatives once performed by intermediary associations within civil society, it also exercises these powers by tacitly redefining what the human being is and committing the nation to a decidedly post-Christian (and ultimately post-human) anthropology and philosophy of nature.

Yes, it is my prerogative, as allowed by law and our society.

In these last years, scarred by AIDS, by the dominant culture of greed and violence, and by personal loss and pain, I have come to see more distinctly the vital link between the healing process (traditionally the prerogative of religious and medical traditions) and the work of liberation (assumed to be the business of revolutionary movements for justice).

Their dilemma should be felt acutely by any Christian who lives under the nuclear umbrella and enjoys the prerogatives that come from a military security bought at an awful moral price.

In these last years scarred by AIDS, by the dominant culture of greed and violence, and by personal loss and pain, the author has come to see more distinctly the vital link between the healing process (traditionally the prerogative of religious and medical traditions) and the work of liberation (assumed to be the business of revolutionary movements for justice).

You will be asked only whether you may not have ruined the best within you by joining the crowd in its defiance, thinking that you were many and therefore you had the prerogative, because you were many, that is, because you were many who were wrong.

To be sure, this is a rather odd motto for the ministry of a church that professes to serve the world, and to do so through a Living Word carried and conveyed by a fellowship and in which priesthood is somehow conceived to be a universal function and not an aristocratic prerogative.

Central banks have special prerogatives and responsibilities assigned them by national governments.

18) The fact that there is a later punk - driven attempt to democratize rock fame (and not in the fatuous way that Andy Warhol's «15 - minutes of fame» comment suggested) or that pop / disco artists like Michael Jackson and Madonna will pick up on Bowie's fame - playing and image - emphatic example, in Madonna's case overtly subordinating the music to the prerogatives of notoriety, do not alter what ALMOST FAMOUS is showing us, that rock can be thought of as a social phenomenon / scene that one might belong to («you're too sweet for rock and roll» is said not by a musician to a musician, but by a groupie to a rock writer), that is as fame - focused as it is music - focused.

Both Yehoshua were just expressing the prerogatives of kings and priests: Exodus 19:6 The first by securing a first step of sanctification by the slaughter of even innocent victims, and the second by bringing salvation to a great number in a less hostile environment.

But it is clear that this is the Hebrew form of a widespread myth of the theft of divine prerogatives and their appropriation by man.

This is God's prerogative.20 Edwards» answer is that divine things are discerned by the spirit, hence this judgment itself is a judgment of faith.

He was highhanded and arbitrary at times, yet not more so than many a father unfortunately has shown himself in his own family, and he manifested little inclination to enlarge the prerogatives of his office by encroachment on traditional rights of his people.

A jealous concern for their traditional prerogatives was kept alive among the people by various agitators, notably the prophets.

While the Reformation declared continually that all Christians hold the «keys» in common (not a prerogative of priest or bishop), nevertheless these keys were to be exercised only when authorized by the community.

This meant for the earliest disciples a basic renunciation of the struggle for existence, implemented by a complete break with the power structure of society: the automatic prerogatives of the chosen people, the security of the holy tradition, the comfort of established religious organization and clergy — all such props, controlled by man and as a result constantly available to him for securing his existence, were in principle eliminated.

If this were so, we might suppose the senses to waken our attitudes and conduct as they so habitually do, by first exciting this sense of reality; but anything else, any idea, for example, that might similarly excite it, would have that same prerogative of appearing real which objects of sense normally possess.

Victims who refuse to act like victims imperil the identity and prerogatives accorded their group by calling into question the helplessness of the other members.

By reciting the 23rd Psalm we ascribe to Jesus prerogatives that the state normally takes on for itself.

The lament that there is no knowledge of God in the land (4:1,6) and the plea for the restoration of that knowledge (6:6; cf. 2:20; 6:3; 8:2) imply so strong a relationship between Israel and Yahweh that the profound effect of its violation can be conveyed only by comparing it to the violation of the marital relationship when a wife wantonly offers a husband's sexual prerogatives to other men (10:11).

In view of all that inheres in the first four «words» and in the light of what is there already affirmed both explicitly and by inference; in consideration of ancient Eastern modes of thought and the characteristic psychological identification one always made of his own life with the life of immediate and also more distant progenitors; in recognition of the meaning of Covenant, together with Israel's faith in God's creation and his continuing exercise of the powers and prerogatives of Creator and Sustainer - in acknowledgment of all this it is apparent that the intention of the fifth commandment is to establish and perpetuate not merely the parental but by and through the parental the divine claim upon every life in Israel.

By avoiding the claim that RGTs «play God» by «usurping God's prerogatives,» Christian debaters can caution against the hubris unleashed by some RGTs as a way of «caring for the creation drawn from God.&raquBy avoiding the claim that RGTs «play God» by «usurping God's prerogatives,» Christian debaters can caution against the hubris unleashed by some RGTs as a way of «caring for the creation drawn from God.&raquby «usurping God's prerogatives,» Christian debaters can caution against the hubris unleashed by some RGTs as a way of «caring for the creation drawn from God.&raquby some RGTs as a way of «caring for the creation drawn from God.»

His notes show him moving away from Biel's (and many others») complicated scheme which, while saving God's prerogative, maintains that the «natural» man has a chance of doing something worthwhile by «doing what is in him», back to an idea that God's «prevenient Grace» is always available and always necessary for a life worthy of man and God.

The law of England wisely and religiously concurs that no man hath a power to destroy life but by commission from God, the author of it, and as their suicide is guilty of a double offence, one spiritual, in evading the prerogative of the Almighty and rushing into his immediate presence uncalled for, the other temporal against the King, who hath an interest in the preservation of all his subjects [Commentaries, Book 4, Chapter 14].

Cyprian's ideal is likewise a martyr bishop, but because he must counter the rival claims of the confessors to bind and to loose by virtue of their witnessing to Christ, Cyprian must, unlike Ignatius, reach back explicitly to the prerogatives of the apostles and notably Peter.87 Cyprian called Peter a bishop88 and regarded every bishop as filled with the Holy Spirit89 and as the vicar of Christ, succeeding by vicarious ordination to the apostles.90 Thus Cyprian found the essence and fulfillment of the Church in the bishop:

The insignia and prerogatives of rank and precedence, such as the use of a certain kind of sandal, rings, pallium, and maniple, seem to have been in part appropriated by the clergy and in part formally bestowed by the emperor.

In addition to assuming the full Petrine prerogative as bishop, Callistus also suggested that by a process of monopolization, the spiritual man of Paul (I Cor.

R. G. Usher has pointed out that the bishops did not possess the right to appoint the men they were expected to govern, the prerogative of determining what sort of men they should be, or the power to discipline them once they had been inducted.74 The decision as to qualifications for ordination had been taken from the bishops by the State, while the right of nomination to a parish post, after ordination, was largely controlled by lay patrons, and the bishops were forced to induct the nominee if he met the most meager requirements.

by dissing the contents and the people in your home, isn't it your prerogative to put me in my place?

If you want to treat those people as acceptable, that's your prerogative, but you should not expect others to sit idly by, nor should they expected to.

Pettit is certainly able to show that some figures like Harrington, opponent of Hobbes» attack on the «democratical gentlemen» who opposed government by prerogative, have something like Pettit's account of freedom as resting in being free from subjection «to the potentially capricious will or the potentially idiosyncratic judgement of another» [7].

By using the Royal Prerogative May would have been able to unilaterally invoke Article 50 without the chance for other MPs to object.

Radio presenter Salifu Maase, aka, «Mugabe» and two radio panellists: Alistair Nelson and Godwin Ako Gunn, who have all been jailed by the Supreme Court for four months for contempt, have, through their lawyers, sent a petition to President John Mahama to exercise his prerogative of mercy on them.

The king could therefore use the increasing prerogative power of the monarchy to raise revenue by arbitrarily adjusting fines, taxes, and feudal obligations (or «incidents»).

Royal prerogative powers are now effectively controlled by the government.

Supreme Court justices ruled, by a majority of eight to three, that Prime Minister Theresa May can not lawfully bypass MPs and peers by using the royal prerogative to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty and start the two - year process of negotiating the UK's divorce from its EU partners.

Price starts with Lloyd George and goes on to retell the familiar stories of Baldwin versus the press barons Beaverbrook and Rothermere (and his famous denunciation of them as having «power without responsibility, the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages» - in fact written by Kipling).

Such protections are provided not by evanescent «conventions» (in the traditional British sense), but, rather, by the willingness of an independent judiciary to enforce the prerogatives of the sub-national governments when, as is inevitable, the central government is tempted to overreach, perhaps because it refuses fully to accept the degree to which the traditional unitary state governed from Westminister is no more.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand plans to use a prerogative given to home - state senators to try to block the confirmation of Geoffrey Berman if he is nominated by President Trump as the United States attorney in Manhattan, her spokesman said.

Most of the Monarch's legal powers were lost by the start of the century — the prerogatives of the Crown were and still are exercised by those accountable to the Parliaments of the United Kingdom — but the Monarch's political influence has also declined.

Confronted by terrorism, drugs and illiberal groups, how willing and able are the governments of the Philippines and Indonesia to balance national security prerogatives and popular demands with respect for civil liberties?

Following last week's leakage of a video which showed Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Aisha Alhassan, express the hope that Atiku would be President of Nigeria in 2019 and her reiteration of a preference for her political godfather over President Muhammadu Buhari, on whose prerogative she is on the Federal Executive Council, members of the APC have continued to give the impression that they had a cohesive party until this ruffling by Atiku and his loyalists.