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prerogative

A prerogative is a right that someone has because of their job, age, skill, etc. He used his presidential prerogative to end the war.

prerogative

a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right) suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males

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And though I was not snoring, I shall snore, gape, sneeze, laugh or cry. as the humor strikes me, such being my prerogative.
Your prerogative.
The prerogative of a man is to command.
And what's the prerogative of a woman, in the name of goodness?
Talk about your prerogative again, if you dare!
It's the prerogative of superiors.
Your Majesty, first and foremost, you must stand on your rights and demand immunity on the ground of your Royal Prerogative.
That's your prerogative.
Merely to exercise my husbandly prerogative.
It is an important court prerogative.
It is a king's prerogative to make yesterday's deafness today's keen hearing.
Isn't such a choice my prerogative?
Changing the subject's your prerogative.
It is my prerogative.
I understand, a captain's prerogative.
Well, if that's the way you feel about it we'll be forced to assert our prerogative and search this room.
It's a host's prerogative.
Prerogative!
It's the bride's prerogative.
That's the commander's prerogative.
Don't talk with your mouth full. My mouth, my prerogative.
It's a woman's prerogative not to tell.
Intuition, however illogical, is recognised as a command prerogative.
Captain, I hardly believe that insults are within your prerogative as my commanding officer.
That is your prerogative as medical officer.
That's your prerogative, you're a stockholder.
That's the prerogative of the opposition.
Intuition, however illogical, Mr. Spock, is recognised as a command prerogative.
That is your prerogative as medical officer of this ship.
By law, the quest for ultimate truth is the inalienable prerogative of your working thinkers!
The Colpitts prerogative.
Independance - It's my prerogative!
Listen, if I choose to eat in my own space, that's my prerogative, right?
Detective's prerogative.
They're the prerogative of the consultant neurosurgeon.
That's your prerogative, doctor.
If he doesn't want help, that's his prerogative.

News and current affairs

But it is also advice that is free of responsibility, and, as Stanley Baldwin once said, power without responsibility is the prerogative of the harlot.
Is the US prepared to relinquish its historical prerogative to choose the World Bank president?
One is that despite occasional shows of unity, European countries retain very different views on foreign policy and do not want to delegate this prerogative.
The prize is a Swedish prerogative.
The lesson in the open Kryvorizhstal auction is clear: if a president may not act willfully, arbitrarily, by personal prerogative, then no one may.
Until now, whether or not to carry out such reforms has largely been a national prerogative.
Many times in the past, I pondered on the questions of why humanity has the prerogative to any rights at all.
This acceptance of collective responsibility should come with abandoning US veto power in the IMF by lowering required voting majorities, as well as abandoning Europe's prerogative of appointing the Managing Director.
Organic chemistry, so named because it was believed to be a prerogative of living organisms, has turned out to be the most widespread and banal chemistry: the chemistry of carbon.

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