Sentences with phrase «not prerogative»

The incidence of diseases is rising — Lifestyle diseases, infections, ailments are not a prerogative of the elderly only.

He submitted that neither was the case since the proposals were acknowledged to fall outside the existing statutory regime for local government restructuring (Local Government Act 1992 (LGA 1992), Pt 2) and the actions in question were not prerogative acts.

Urinary scent marking is not the prerogative of male dogs.

«Solving poverty is not the prerogative of educators but equalizing every student's opportunity for success in the classroom is,» writes Craig Kemp (@mrkempnz).

Craig Kemp concludes that «solving poverty is not the prerogative of educators but equalizing every student's opportunity for success in the classroom is.»

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.

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.

Isn't it our prerogative to label and condemn?

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

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The Alaskans defend their prerogatives not simply as remediation for past mistreatment but as a tool to provide for an entire society, not just a single entrepreneur.

While it's obviously the prerogative of users to be able to share their genetic data, they should not be able to force their entire family to adhere to the same terms and conditions.

That's their prerogative, as is the right to believe that all file - sharing is piracy, although I'm of the belief that it isn't if the creator doesn't think it is.

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

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.

As long as you don't ask prohibited questions during the interview process, it's your prerogative to ask candidates about anything from their appreciation for soccer to their favorite foods.

This is where the Facebook - Cambridge Analytica story catches us — in the realization that the right to make autonomous choices, the basic prerogative of any human being, might soon be gone, and we won't even notice.

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

There are some people, of course, who prefer to put their entire investment portfolio into individual stocks — that is their prerogative and they either learn the hard way (as most do) that it's not for them.

In any event, it's your prerogative to be and to remain spiritually blind, deaf, and dead; just don't assume everyone shares your reality.

Those who were not able to grasp the genius in these movies were not looking hard enough, but that is their prerogative.

I'm not asking you to trust me; trust or the lack thereof is your prerogative.

And if others feel they can't apologize, because their understanding of the facts is at odds with Julie's, well — that's their prerogative, too.

If you don't wish to consider the points made about lying, patronising and manipulating women's feelings that of course is your prerogative.

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

Now while you may choose to dismiss this, and that's your absolute prerogative, as mythology and not «true», it is not a belief in a God of my «own making.»

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.

We would like to think that we can because we don't want to give up the power and prestige and prerogatives of being wealthy.

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.

«but the idea that someone would suggest that he is near death, is not only highly speculative, but foolish considering that all such matters are the sole prerogative of God.»

There is everything to commend in the attitude of humility, or thanksgiving, or petition, or intercession before God, so long as the person with the attitude is not usurping prerogatives either of God himself or of the whole congregation of Christians.

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.

Though the nullifiers» case for the Constitution as a compact among sovereign states is a lame one that flies in the face of the Preamble («We the People,» not «We the States»), Madison did lose some important battles to proponents of the prerogatives of the states.

That's your prerogative and one which shouldn't be judged, mocked or denigrated.

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.

That is, of course, your prerogative... but it is not something to be proud of, let alone something to celebrate.

If you personally don't wish to do business with them for what the owner thinks that's your prerogative.

That kind of visit is not only a professional's prerogative, but the minister's personal privilege, now too often surrendered in favor of the clinical model and the unlisted telephone number.

From Monday's article: «Fred Phelps has health issues,» the church said in a statement Sunday, «but the idea that someone would suggest that he is near death, is not only highly speculative, but foolish considering that all such matters are the sole prerogative of God.»

They are certainly recognised in Western legal systems and... worldview (s); however... (human) consciousness... can not itself actively determine what is good and what is evil (and)... these freedoms are essentially thought of as mere individual prerogatives.»

They are the prerogative of the gentleman, who is not obliged to spend his time in doing the bidding of others, but who can employ himself according to his own inclinations and in pursuit of his own chosen ends.

It not only implies, for the several national «governments», the prospect of having to waive a substantial portion of the pomp, prerogative and privilege which they now enjoy as the traditional concomitants of the possession of national military power, and having to content themselves with the considerably smaller amount of glory which is reserved for mere units of local administration.

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.

The aim of the party out of power is not to cut the presidency down to size but to seize it, not to reduce the prerogatives of the executive branch but to regain them.»

It is our faith that in that Man it did not «fail», not because it had peculiar privileges or unique divine prerogatives, but because it held fast to its «initial aim», making that its own «subjective aim» and thus through «the travail» which mortal existence imposed upon it finding the «satisfaction» or fulfilment which was its destiny.

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.

It is simply not right for today's elderly to appropriate for themselves resources and prerogatives in a way that discriminates against their own children and grandchildren.

It is not the sole prerogative of Christians, but Christians who do not have this attitude can scarcely be said to be either loving or just.

Ann, that is certainly your prerogative, but I would hope that you wouldn't be offended if someone did put up a cross for your husband.

Faith is not the sole prerogative of any one cultural tradition, though Christians have often shown a tendency to think faith was exclusively a Christian phenomenon.