prerogative

IPA: prɪrˈɑgʌtɪv

An exclusive hereditary or official right or privilege.
A right, or power that is exclusive to a monarch etc, especially such a power to make a decision or judgement.
A right, especially when due to one's position or role.
A property, attribute or ability which gives one a superiority or advantage over others; an inherent advantage or privilege; a talent.

Examples of "prerogative" in Sentences

Angels are grieved when God's prerogative is in the least infringed.
The issue of preventive war as a presidential prerogative is hardly new.
Personal prerogative is lost amidst the world of law and order that ignores humans and humanity.
NEWMYER: Well, a writ of mandamus is an ancient sort of common law, what we call a prerogative writ.
In the exercise of mercy, there should be no doubt left that the high prerogative is not used to relieve a few at the expense of the many.
Faced with the intention of David Milliband to press on and attempt to ratify the first Lisbon Treaty through the House Of Lords today, Wednesday June 18th, Bill Cash made an application to the High Court yesterday that the royal prerogative is being used illegally.
This question, divested of the phraseology calculated to represent me as struggling for an arbitrary personal prerogative, is either simply a question who shall decide, or an affirmation that nobody shall decide, what the public safety does require, in cases of Rebellion of Invasion.
Their leaders have learned the hard way that, within their well-managed tropical island states, no election verdict, no constitutional custom or habit, no parliament’s decision, no ordinary citizen’s commonplace prerogative is safe from an intrusive America whose caprices and policies are neither fairer, nor more predictable, nor more morally conscionable than the vagaries of hurricanes.