They concentrated so many prerogatives in the State as to leave no footing from which a man could deny its jurisdiction or assign bounds to its activity.
On the one hand he taught that the enactments and decisions of ecclesiastical law are made on principles and by virtue of prerogatives which jam antea latitavere in the Church of the apostles and fathers.
It never appeared in the Index, but a royal auto condemned it as subversive of the regalías and prerogatives of the crown, and ordered its suppression under pain of half confiscation and arbitrary penalties.
In the middle ages papal domination encroached in many ways on the prerogatives of the temporal ruler, encroachments submitted to, with more or less resistance, by the loosely organized feudal monarchies.
These and other successive encroachments on the royal prerogatives resulted in the establishment of an aristocratic government of the nobility, and are almost the only events that fill the meager annals of Athens for several centuries.
But then, on the other hand, the movement to disallow or diminish the prerogatives of ownership is also not to take the innocuous shape of unstudied neglect.
On the memorable day when Clovis ascended from the baptismal font, he alone, in the Christian world, deserved the name andprerogatives of a Catholic king.
It was a name, a shadow, an empty pageant; and if the conqueror had been instructed to claim the ancient prerogatives of that high office, they must have expired with the period of its annual duration.
It may not be useless to recapitulate some of the most important prerogatives which the senate appeared to have regained by the election of Tacitus.
The strong claims of merit and of violence had frequently superseded the ideal prerogatives of nobility; but a distinct line of separation was hitherto preserved between the free and the servile part of mankind.
The foot guards, [27] who had been long jealous of the prerogatives and insolence of the Praetorian cavalry, embraced the party of the people.
The liberties of the people seemed to take deeper root in the midst of those political convulsions, so frequent in Castile, which unsettled the ancient prerogatives of the crown.
By these and similar arguments the queen succeeded in soothing her offended husband, without compromising the prerogativesof her crown.
These important prerogatives were of course favorable to the accumulation of great wealth.
Many of their prerogatives resemble those assumed anciently by the popes.
Rivalry of jurisdiction paralyzed the law and there was perpetual friction over the veriest trifles, for the tribunal was always on the watch to resist the minutest infraction of its prerogatives or disregard of its dignity.
His grief was superfluous; the tribunal was not accustomed to be bound by law and its methods of enforcing its assumed prerogatives were difficult to resist.
Carlos III had no further occasion to exercise his prerogatives but it was otherwise with Carlos IV.
Among these realities is the principle of the equality of man and woman—equal rights and prerogatives in all things appertaining to humanity.
All these rights and prerogatives must be conserved, yet the unity of the family must be sustained.
With the protection, Theodoric assumed the legal supremacy, of the church; and his firm administration restored or extended some useful prerogatives which had been neglected by the feeble emperors of the West.
These prerogatives were reserved to the praefects, who alone could impose the heavy fine of fifty pounds of gold: their vicegerents were confined to the trifling weight of a few ounces.
Neither will he fail to observe the modus operandi by which the attributes and prerogatives of this Deity have been shifted upon males--usually deified monarchs.
It also wants the King of the Hejaz to pledge himself to respect the titles and prerogatives of the Sultan as Caliph over the holy cities and places of Mecca and Medina.
A few minutes later the redoubled grunts and groans of his bearers--evidently sharing shamelessly the weaker prerogatives of the other sex--told Tetsujo that they had begun the ascent of the Tabata slope.
Upon his father's death, he was asked by the Emperor to take at once the offices and semi-royal prerogatives of the lamented elder statesman.
Aguinaldo never himself failed to claim all the prerogatives due to his alleged position as the de facto ruler of the country.
One of the deeper troubles of the Spaniards is that they take upon themselves the administration of the prerogatives of him who said "Vengeance is mine.
In 1497 Columbus at his own request was supplied with a copy of the ordinances establishing the admiralty of Castile so that he might have a documentary enumeration of his prerogatives in the Indies.
Portalis, every one knows, elevated the rights and prerogatives of the state high enough.
The writer comes to the conclusion that “no one’s life is any longer safe who ventures to doubt the divinity of Mary or the supreme prerogatives of the Pope.
Philip, with all his deference to Rome, was not a man to relinquish any of the prerogatives of the crown.
It seemed incredible, says the historian, that a prince so jealous of his prerogatives should have submitted to all this so long.
The first years of the reign were largely spent in restoring the public peace and recovering for the crown the lands and prerogatives which Stephen had bartered away.
They saw their power waning, and this led them to encroach upon the prerogatives and independence of the Northern States by enacting such laws as the Fugitive Slave Law.
The fathers themselves would have been the first to declare that their prerogatives were not irrevocable.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prerogatives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
