Sentences with phrase «prerogative on»

That's Avvo's prerogative on their own blog, and Rick & Kevin did a fine job standing up for their services.

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Your doctor has the prerogative on answering medical questions.

In practice, no election was absolutely forced by that limitation; until the Septennial Act was repealed by the Fixed - term Parliaments Act 2011, all parliaments were dissolved by the Monarch under the Royal Prerogative on request of the Prime Minister.

The other is Assemblyman John McEneny, who came up in Albany's Democratic machine, and has emerged as the sharpest - tongued defender of the legislature's institutional prerogative on redistricting.

While adopting a more accommodating approach to the First Amendment than its predecessor, the Rehnquist Court has also shown a strong sympathy for state prerogatives on matters of federalism.

It restored collective bargaining prerogatives on all working conditions for teachers — some of the union's power had been stripped in earlier legislation.

Not exact matches

Drug deals on US streets, and the violence done to enforce them, are the prerogative of US gangs, not the cartels.

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.

It's not just that the one percent is on the rise: The locational prerogatives of the global super-rich are changing the face of some of the world's greatest cities.

Many churches and other houses of worship have taken stands on these issues and lots of others, which is their prerogative.

Dante, for all his urgent attacks on papal prerogatives, did not want to see the papacy leave Italy.

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.

Evidence has been presented ad infinitum on this site, you simply choose to reject it which is certainly your prerogative, just don't pretend it hasn't been made available.

On a trip to Poland my wife and I found that many church officials were cautious and fearful of losing institutional privileges and prerogatives.

The laying on of hands to confer the gift of the Spirit after baptism or as the prelude to the undertaking of some special task had at Jerusalem been apparently the prerogative of the apostles (Acts 6:6, 8:17), but this power had now been extended to others (Acts 13:3).

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.

You want to put your believe on rituals and myths that originated prior to the Dark Ages, that is your prerogative buddy.

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.

For lust, arrogance, covetousness, adultery, calculated competence iii compounding wrong, for deliberate murder, and for highhanded indifference to this wholesale shattering of covenant commandment — for all this, you shall know now the kind of violence you have perpetrated on Uriah, and the same loss of sexual prerogatives which you inflicted upon him.

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

The logic of Islamic jurisprudence on apostasy emerges not from the Qur» an (which suggests in several passages — e.g. Q 2.217, 5.54, and 47.25 — that it is God's prerogative to punish apostates).

Or they may feel self - hatred for having contributed to the nurture of someone who, as they see it, arrogantly took his or her life — a prerogative of God alone: A survivor's grief may be so severe that it can become a cause of self - execution on the part of the bereaved.

If scholars want to talk this way among themselves, he says, that is their prerogative, but we must fight their efforts to impose these theories on entire populations.

Texans insist on spelling both the pod and the dish with an i, which is their prerogative.

As the rest of America watched the Seahawks - Packers game play to its shambolic denouement, Hochuli was on his sectional sofa, watching the Diamondbacks play the Rockies in Denver, as is the prerogative of a man who had already taken in 15 hours of NFL action that week.

The owner of a team should have a finger on the scale here and there, as is his / her prerogative, but they shouldn't be making all kinds of day - to - day decisions; that's the GM's job, so I wouldn't criticize Chris I. for much right now.

i find the intrusion on parental prerogative immensely offensive.

While discipline is a positive virtue in any person's life, when it comes to using the word for children it has prerogative connotations of punishment, withholding of privileges, physical chastisement and so on.

It's their grandparent prerogative and I support it on occasion.

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].

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.

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).

Immediately after the referendum I argued that «While, given its royal prerogative, it is not altogether clear whether the government would have to take note of a parliamentary vote [on Brexit], it stands to reason that since the unconventional route of a popular referendum did not produce sufficient grounds to act on, the government has at least a moral duty to listen to the opinion of the body to which it is after all accountable.»

If you think of the changes as restrictions on the royal prerogative, which they are, then it will be like any other act that restricted it.

Tory grandee Ken Clarke said: «On the question of the parliamentary role, I think the Prime Minister was not relying on the archaic, narrow interpretation of the Royal prerogative, which no government has invoked in this country for over 50 years - they have always come to Parliament for debates and votes if possible on any military actioOn the question of the parliamentary role, I think the Prime Minister was not relying on the archaic, narrow interpretation of the Royal prerogative, which no government has invoked in this country for over 50 years - they have always come to Parliament for debates and votes if possible on any military actioon the archaic, narrow interpretation of the Royal prerogative, which no government has invoked in this country for over 50 years - they have always come to Parliament for debates and votes if possible on any military actioon any military action.

The MoJ response to Gordon Brown's green paper on Royal Prerogative powers was hopeless Sir Humphreyism and mysticism.

I think it much more likely to build broad support in Parliament for putting Royal Prerogative powers on a statutory basis («strenthening Parliament») than seeing abolishing the monarchy as a likely route to do this.

Perhaps the more interesting thing will be to see where the Assembly stands on the challenge from the Senate regarding changes made through budget language to how prisoners are counted for legislative districting, where the Assembly likely sides with the governor on the policy outcome but with the Senate on institutional prerogatives and procedure.

Daniel Chill, representing the Assembly Democrats, also argued for the prerogative of incumbents, saying it's «state policy» based on decades of redistricting plans that considered the existing legislators, and that the court could perhaps make it a significant factor without «putting it at the top of the list.»

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.

This report took a pass on recommending changes to JCOPE's voting structure, saying «questions concerning JCOPE as an institution... are the prerogative of the Executive and Legislative Branches of government.»

«I don't have a problem with the legislature setting up committees and naming chairmen [previously the sole prerogative of legislature chairmen] but I think a so - called rail corridor committee should have more members from the corridor on it.»

This is what Article 72 of the Constitution of Ghana says on the President's prerogative of mercy: Article 72 (1) The President may, acting in consultation with the Council of State -

He declined to speculate on whether the governor might repeatedly call the Legislature back to Albany if members try to skip town without passing marriage, saying only that it would be his «prerogative.»

«Individual legislators rarely if ever even attempted to exercise the traditional prerogatives that we expect of congressional legislators: voicing serious dissent, pushing an individual legislative agenda, conducting open hearings on contentious issues of public policy,» he wrote.

Prior to this, the power to dissolve Parliament was a royal prerogative, exercised by the sovereign on the advice of the prime minister.

In 1980, after the courts had dismissed their appeals, the Home Secretary, William Whitelaw, used the Royal prerogative of mercy to free David Cooper and Michael McMahon from their imprisonment, both having been convicted of murder on poor evidence.

Edward's recent work has focused on public attitudes to metro mayors and the powers and prerogatives of the new mayoral offices being created in English city regions.

Speaking to Class News, Edudzi Tameklo, one of the lawyers for the convicts said: «It is much ado about nothing and I make this point because... the president is opportune to exercise his prerogative of mercy [and will] not do that on the basis of how many petitions or signatures have been [collected].