Sentences with word «prerogative»

Our clients have directed us in the circumstances to petition His Excellency the President of the Republic to exercise his powers of prerogative of mercy under Article 72 of the Constitution of Ghana».

As an aspect of the sovereignty of Parliament it has been established (during the original English Civil War) that the Government of the day can not by exercise of prerogative powers override legislation enacted by Parliament.

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.

The UK Supreme Court decided two very interesting immigration cases the week before last, touching on two very interesting issues.The first issue was whether the royal prerogative in respect of immigration control had been ousted by the Immigration Act, 1971.

Annual referendums must be won by a majority in order to avoid political chaos, and though you can enforce a variety of prerogatives as colony chief, be warned: if you enforce overtime at work, expect general unhappiness and possible riots.

The arguments in the Brexit litigation over Article 50 TEU were effective because, as incorporated, the EU Treaties had given rise to domestic rights that could not simply be abrogated by the executive exercising prerogative powers.

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.

In practice, no election was absolutely forced by that limitation; until the Septennial Act was repealed by the Fixed - term Parliaments Act 2011, all parliaments were dissolved by the Monarch under the Royal Prerogative on request of the Prime Minister.

Using prerogatives of the majority, Majority Leader Bill Frist (R - Tenn.)

At the same time, the administration is also pushing back on calls for greater legislative prerogative for the awarding of grants by regional economic development councils.

The exercise of the Royal Prerogative by the Crown in right of the province is not clearly reviewable by the Crown in right of Canada.

«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.»

In addition to recommending the abolition of Crown copyright and Crown prerogative in legislative and judicial materials, the Committee extended its recommendations to other government - produced materials that should be made freely available, including:

He says the union has to give the school district back some of its management prerogatives given up in past contracts and allow longer days and longer years.

(Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community, pp. 126 - 128) Hence, the Porchers should want to move from the current system to one in which a) the habits and beliefs of certain Porcher influenced or protected communities, and b) the hard - fought - for legislative prerogatives and jurisdictions of said communities (vis - a-vis national and state authority — esp.

If somebody really wants a chaplain, or alike, it should be their own prerogative, or otherwise it's paid by everybody else, you want it or not.

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.

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.

Further, we acknowledge that various social institutions» including family, church, and government» are ordained of God and should operate within appropriate spheres of authority with prerogatives that are respected by the other institutions.

To follow, it does not mean any lessening of judgment on the evils done in the name of male prerogatives, but rather not to allow the evil to overwhelm and destroy our souls.

They depicted the Bishops of Rome as claiming prerogatives over the Catholic Church from the beginning, permitted all bishops to appeal directly to the Pope, and regarded bishops and Popes as of right free from secular control.

You must frame your application for judicial review to seek a variety of remedies known as prerogative writs, injunctions, and declarations.

Boundary Intrusion — This occurs when one partner intrudes on some form of privacy, ownership, or personal prerogative of the other.

However, as part of Parliamentary Sovereignty, Parliament could create new prerogatives if it so wished regardless.

With their hands stayed by the desire to maintain a cordial working environment, a fear of negative publicity, and concern about costly and time - consuming grievance proceedings, administrators frequently treat the absence of clear managerial prerogatives in contracts as an excuse for inaction.

His replacement, Emmet Flood, who assisted in President Bill Clinton's impeachment defense and President George W. Bush's response to politically charged congressional inquiries, brings experience asserting constitutional prerogatives to fend off investigative demands.

Each denomination was fully independent but agreed to surrender certain prerogatives with regard to general problems such as defense of the faith, spread of the gospel, and moral reform.

(If they did so no state would have adopted the standards, because specific content is a local prerogative in the U.S.) But those words are an impetus to a brave governor or state superintendent to get down to brass tacks.

It's heartbreaking to see religious folk attempting to exclude others from the discussion, as if love and family, peace of heart and mind were religious prerogatives only.

But as the current editor, I am exercising an administrative prerogative by beginning the «modern» years in 1953 — the year that I first took seriously this weekly publication as it made its regular appearance in my seminary library in Atlanta.

John, I will do my best (non-legal opinion) to answer your probing questions on the doctrine of paramountcy surrounding Royal Prerogative Powers and «federal pith and substance» as this relates to the Crown in Right of Canada (Monarchy of Canada).

His argument is that kings always enjoy prerogative powers, and that such powers are by definition discretionary.

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.

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.

There are three main prerogative powers recognised under the common law which still reside in the jurisdiction of the Crown.

But it would be silly to pretend that those professional prerogatives don't exist, and that they don't foster a degree of resentment.

One can only wonder how the late Sen. Robert Byrd — jealous defender of congressional prerogatives — would've reacted upon hearing Secretary Duncan's brash ultimatum, «If Congress doesn» t act, we will.»

In his first address to the House of Commons as prime minister, Mr Brown said he would «surrender or limit» powers in 12 areas, including royal prerogatives such as declaring war without parliamentary approval.

What executive prerogatives does the governor have to execute his demand?

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.

On the issue of assignment the AG's approach is entirely logical and not surprising: evidently Herr Schrems can not have claims assigned to him and then exercise those claims using any other jurisdictional prerogatives then present in the original claim.

Ryan's three brothers have all died in combat within days of one another, and the war office sense a moral prerogative in returning the last remaining Ryan boy to his mother.