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They have a sense of humor, and these are the kind of things which traditionally have been thought of as human prerogatives.
The prerogatives of people like Dick Cheney do not keep the nation safe.
As China gets bigger and stronger and richer, technologically more advanced, it will inevitably bump up against American positions and prerogatives.
Ahmadinejad himself, however, has generally ignored the post-election crisis in his public statements, and evidently believed that Khamenei’s post-election support meant that the Supreme Leader would remain passive in the face of encroachments on his traditional powers and prerogatives.
The king retains some prerogatives, such as the authority to select the prime minister (from the parliament’s majority party) and the head of the army.
It should also be abhorrent to member states, which continue to guard their sovereignty and prerogatives.
The first reactions have been mostly negative, because of specific concerns such as wage indexation in Belgium or because the EU institutions want to preserve their legal prerogatives.
Though they will not oppose reforms outright, they will continue to procrastinate and spread fear about economic instability and social tension to prevent changes that threaten to diminish their status and prerogatives.
Participating in the collective life of the international community of states implies bearing others in mind and, when necessary, giving up certain prerogatives of sovereignty.
Given the regime’s dependence on the personalization of power, it would be hard to design any credible path for change that preserves the prerogatives of Putin and his cronies.
The exact arrangements will have to be decided, but they must allow quicker and better-informed decision-making while respecting national fiscal prerogatives.
Rather than fighting another ill-fated battle in Washington, it is more promising to encourage many more states to exercise their prerogatives.
Chen’s popularity among his party followers, whose fervency often bordered on fundamentalism, changed him from a person with deep democratic instincts into a textbook case of a man who regards power and its prerogatives as being his by right.
Because Tudjman created a highly-centralized political system with vast prerogatives vested in the president, the opposition's best bet was to stick together in hope of mustering the two-thirds majority needed to change the constitution.
The ultimate goal is to ensure that China eventually gains the flexibility and financial prerogatives that come with being a reserve-currency country.
For example, by withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal, Trump has essentially dared the United Kingdom, France, Germany, China, Russia, and the European Union to defy US prerogatives.
They now jealously guard their power and band together to protect their prerogatives and perks.
The United Kingdom is the most vocal skeptic, but Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and pretty much the rest of Eastern Europe have never been enthusiastic about shifting their focus from national prerogatives.
The People’s Committee viewed this rejection as an attempt to pressure the king into countersigning the law – and thus as a threat to royal prerogatives and the king’s exalted role in Thailand.
Congress can obstruct Obama’s foreign policy as well, but this remains a domain where any US president “enjoys almost royal prerogatives,” to use Alexis de Tocqueville’s somewhat inflated description.
These prerogatives, however, have so far allowed Obama only to describe the world that he wants, not to bring it about.
Although the Legislative Council passed the election law in its third and final reading, Abbas rejected it, a decision that falls within his presidential prerogatives.
No country, including Russia, is entitled to the prerogatives of Empire.
The junta certainly has no intention of abandoning its vast economic empire (with its tax-free benefits, land ownership and confiscation rights, preferential customs and exchange rates, and other prerogatives).
They don’t interfere in the “sovereign prerogatives” of other member states.
Finally, political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European Parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe’s fiscal, banking, and monetary union.
These compromises state that nothing in the treaties will affect Irish prerogatives on abortion, military neutrality, and taxation.
In return, Germany would insist on economic-governance reforms that force other eurozone members to surrender some of their national fiscal prerogatives.
The EU, after all, is composed of sovereign states that jealously guard their prerogatives while occasionally yielding some aspect of sovereignty to central institutions for mutually agreed-upon purposes.
Taxes are under the jurisdiction of national and local governments, which jealously guard their tax prerogatives.
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