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"Prerogative" in a Sentence (17 examples)
If you want to throw your life's accomplishments away, that's your prerogative, but I'm staying right here where I'll be safe from your lunacy.
It's your prerogative to decide whether to go on the trip.
If you want to throw your money away, that's your prerogative.
It's my prerogative.
Talent is the prerogative of a few.
It is difficult to pour out one's heart through writing: it is the prerogative of a few authors. It's not just a question of vocabulary; it is still necessary to weave the words. Me, I have not yet managed to catch a glimpse of their beginning.
He adds that it is the prerogative of the court to assess actions by the defendants and to apply appropriate sanctions within legal guidelines.
Despite being a constitutional monarchy, the British sovereign still retain many royal prerogatives.
The military fame of a subject was considered as an insolent invasion of the Imperial prerogative; and it became the duty, as well as interest, of every Roman general, to guard the frontiers intrusted to his care, without aspiring to conquests which might have proved no less fatal to himself than to the vanquished barbarians.
Lord Avonleigh had decided on taking refuge in wounded dignity, when he was again addressed by the King. "The castle holds another prisoner, to whom I intend extending the best prerogative of my crown—mercy. Will you order Robert Evelyn to be brought before me?"
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I hear my chair in the hall; and to keep Lord Marchmont waiting, when he has announced his intention of supping at home, far exceeds my prerogative; so good night, dearest, you will either see or hear from me to-morrow.
"Ah, that's your prerogative as an Intelligence officer, Jimmy. But it's been your prerogative for weeks, months, and nothing has happened, as I told you […]"
If you want to wear your hair a certain way, that's your prerogative. You don't have to check with all your friends to make sure it's okay.
If you choose another approach — that's your prerogative. But the problem is that parents often don't realize they're making the choice […]
"I know what is important to Sadiq [Khan, London Mayor], and I know how to explain things to him in a way that maximises our chances of getting the right thing. If he chooses not to take my advice, that is absolutely his prerogative. But he gave me the job, and I intend to pay him back by delivering what he needs."
The problem is — like with the Harris border czar reference, which is still omitted from the czar article (and will almost certainly stay that way) — the consensus it achieves often lines up with the prerogatives of the Democratic Party and the media establishment that supports it.
Law-eroding prerogative developments cannot only be witnessed in hybrid regimes, but also in democratic states, which resort to reflections and practices of an ‘enemy criminal law’, and in the European Union’s recent crisis politics.
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