Sentences with phrase «exclusive prerogative»
The phrase "exclusive prerogative" means having the sole right or privilege to do something. It implies that no one else has the authority or permission to do it. Full definition
With the brief and fascinating exception of the blaxploitation movies and a few other works of radical or renegade art, vengeance in the American imagination has been the virtually exclusive prerogative of white men.
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As the Church teaches: «A healthcare professional's role may be to remove obstacles to conception, restore fertility, assist in fertility awareness, advise, comfort, listen, guide — but never to violate the exclusive prerogative of wives and husbands to become mother and father only through each other.»
Choosing the leader would have been the exclusive prerogative of Labour's parliamentary elite.
It seems the sabbatical — an extended leave of absence once the exclusive prerogative of professors and priests — has gone mainstream.
Section 128 of the act provides that certain activities, including preparing and drawing up motions and other written proceedings, are the «exclusive prerogative» of advocates and solicitors, notably «plead [ing] or act [ing]» before courts or tribunals.
After examining whether the law unconstitutionally invaded the federal government's exclusive prerogative to set immigration policy, on Monday June 25, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down key provisions of Arizona's immigration law as follows:
(1) The following acts, performed for others, shall be the exclusive prerogative of the practising advocate or solicitor: