#prerogative

But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#against #alleging #any #crime #crown

The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#direct #feel #had #little #occasion

But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#christ #claim #claiming #does #earth

Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#call #calls #christ #church #duties

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. ↗

— John James Ingalls

#democracy #equal #grave #last #men

There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. ↗

— John James Ingalls

#neither #nor #prerogative #rank #republic

Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do! ↗

— Jane Taylor

#defined #few #grand #how #justly

I am very concerned that we have given up capabilities and methodologies that have worked in the past. I know they work and I'm concerned because in the future we may need these. So while it is the prerogative of the president to make that decision, I am concerned that in the future we may miss these and we may need them to protect American lives. ↗

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

#american #american lives #because #capabilities #concerned