Sentences with phrase «using prerogatives»

«It's entirely her prerogative to do that and in this case she's chosen to use that prerogative,» he replied.

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.

The court decided that the UK government were within their rights to use prerogative powers in this way.

A group affiliated to the NDC, which calls itself the Research and Advocacy Platform (RAP) were first to seek signatures in a petition, to compel President Mahama to use his prerogative power of mercy to free the three.

Richard Drax, a Conservative, asks if the government is worried about the courts stopping ministers using prerogative powers to go to war.

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

Parents can use their prerogative as parents to disable phones they pay for from being able to make app purchases and in - app purchases without prior approval.

Public and private enterprises would no longer be granted equal treatment if the State were to use the prerogatives of public power for the benefit of the enterprises in which it is a shareholder.»

The British government is using its prerogative powers to revoke the passports of those intending to travel to Syria and those believed to be there already.

Proceedings for judicial review have been brought in the High Court of Justice in London before The Lord Chief Justice, The Master of the Rolls and Lord Justice Sales in order to obtain a declaration from the Court on whether, under UK constitutional laws, the Government can lawfully use prerogative powers to give notification to the EU under art. 50 of the Lisbon Treaty without the Parliament's formal authorisation.

According to the claimants it was for the government to show that Parliament had granted the executive the power to use the prerogative to take away statutory rights.

Underhill J acknowledged that it was well established that the Crown may not use prerogative or other common law powers in a field which is already the subject of statutory regulation.

Not exact matches

But if re-elected, he could decide not to do that and use what is called Royal Prerogative to force the deal.

We do it to help you build airports and highways for your use, of course (but also so that we may the more easily exercise our prerogatives of adjacency).

So I'm arguing first that it's God's prerogative to take life when He so chooses, and second that the means He uses to take that life is a matter of His prerogative as well.

Now, while it is quite clear what must happen to keep a baby alive (the minimum supply necessary) and what must not happen, lest he be physically damaged or chronically upset (the maximum early frustration tolerable), there is a certain leeway in regard to what may happen; and different cultures make extensive use of their prerogatives to decide what they consider workable and insist upon calling necessary.

When the study began, the Surgeon General «s office was pressured into giving the three commercial networks veto power of approval over all 12 members of the committee, a prerogative which CBS declined, but which both NBC and ABC used to veto seven prospective members.

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.

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.

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

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»).

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.

The guiding principles for the use of the monarch's «personal prerogative» are that government should persist and that there should not be elections in quick succession.

Hitherto, elections had been announced as a personal decision of the Prime Minister using powers delegated to him under royal prerogative.

In the Senate, the motion may be offered at other times during consideration of a measure, and is not a prerogative of a member of the minority party; it may also be used as a means of offering an amendment.

She said: «I was fighting against the use of the Royal Prerogative.

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.

This was used and cited the most often in cases of inmates who had been given the death penalty: from 1965 to 1993 (when the death penalty was formally abolished) death sentences were automatically commuted to life imprisonment under the Royal Prerogative.

«This executive decision made using the Queen's prerogative powers has significant constitutional implications and is an abuse of power,» said shadow leader of the House Rosie Winterton.

Her supporters argue that under Crown prerogative powers the government can take such decisions on its own but the precedent of the 2013 vote (which defeated David Cameron) makes this harder to maintain than it used to do.

I would consider going to court to get a ruling to say whether or not the government can do this [use the great repeal bill]- as we did with the royal prerogative.

-- The government could pull out of the ECJ using Royal Prerogative powers if any such shenanigans to usurp the referendum were attempted.

If He chooses to use part of his creation such as coconut oil, I won't complain, and if He gives direction to His praying child through Facebook, that is His prerogative as well.8

We may use it or simply just hoard it, but buying makeup is something that shall remain a girl's prerogative forever.

Ultimately, however, district leaders must ensure that their staff members know how to take advantage of management rights, and school boards must charge the superintendent and senior staff with actually making full use of managerial prerogatives.

«It used to be that character education was the prerogative of parents / families, governments, and religious institutions, but over time...

It used to be that character education was the prerogative of parents / families, governments, and religious institutions, but over time all of these have weakened, and so now schools are the best place where this education can take place.

It used to be that character education was the prerogative of parents / families, governments, and religious institutions, but over...

If the bookstore chooses to use loss - leaders to get many buys, adjusting in other areas, that's always been the storeowner's prerogative.

«President Obama's alternative strategy of using the EPA and other agencies to wage a backdoor war on carbon energy through misdirection and pretext, robs the people and their elected representatives, who would not support these restrictions voluntarily, of their constitutional prerogatives.

The UK QB ruled unanimously (3 - 0) this fine English morning that the Tory gov» t can not use the Crown's prerogative to initiate the UK's withdrawal from the EU.

The first and most important thing to reiterate is that the CJEU could not act as the final constitutional arbiter of the question in the case of whether the UK government may use the royal prerogative to give notice under Article 50 TEU.

It is clear that the Electrabel tribunal's use of EU law is poles apart from e.g. the Maffezini tribunal's engagement, and its discussion on the division of competences between the EU and its member states is problematic in light of Opinions 1/91 and 2/13, where the Court explicitly stated that questions of competence are its sole prerogative.

It was settled case - law (see notably the case - law quoted by the Court at point 79 of its judgment) however that, when the State acts as a public authority (by using its fiscal prerogatives for example), this test can not be applied as there is no private investor to which the State can be compared to.

How can two Governor Generals of Canada (The Queen's Representatives) ignore how Quite Corrupt the process and procedures are that allow unfit lawyers to receive these historical and prestigious appoints using Her Majesty's Royal Prerogative in the form of Her Letters Patent without any accountability?

Therefore, the residual «prerogative power» (powers that were once vested in the King or Queen and because they have not been given a statutory footing now vest in the ministers of the Government) to make and withdraw from international treaties can not be used to give notice under Article 50 TEU to withdraw from the European Union.

Klein says he thinks there is the potential for holes in the evidence the Fitbit will provide but it's Muller's client's prerogative to use it as one form of the evidence to help her claim that she's not as active as she used to be.

Judge Simon has assisted in the resolution of complex commercial cases, injunctive relief matters, corporate and shareholder proceedings, employment disputes, land use litigation, prerogative writ actions, contested estates and guardianships, election disputes, and other significant litigated matters.

-RRB- the hearing has now started of the High Court challenges to the Government's position that it can trigger Article 50 by use of the royal prerogative and without the need for an Act of Parliament.

If this is wrong, and the referendum was binding, then neither the use of the prerogative nor another Act would be needed.