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  • After all, My Prerogative was a nice bellwether for all the years of madness that would ensue when Britney Spears was allowed a prerogative.

    Britney Spears Being Sectioned 2009

  • You carefully concealed it from the people of England, and then by means of this antiquated weapon called Prerogative-a weapon which everyone respects, but which nobody expected to see again drawn from the scabbard-you have made a Treaty, and have used the power not as it ought to have been used.

    Global Guerrillas 2009

  • "Prerogative" instances, with their long tale of imaginative titles.

    Bacon John Morley 1852

  • If any one will run over the pages of Comyn's Digest or any other such book, title "Prerogative," he will find the Queen has a hundred such powers which waver between reality and desuetude, and which would cause a protracted and very interesting legal argument if she tried to exercise them.

    The English Constitution Walter Bagehot 1851

  • In the “Priestly Prerogative” his first naturalistic “new woman” enters the scene.

    “The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction 2010

  • We've got a "My Prerogative" Standoff: Outside the Box vs.

    'American Idol' 2011 rolls on through Hollywood Week 2011

  • Combine that with his less-than-stellar performance of the faster "My Prerogative" and a wide-ranging not to mention emotional ballad like "Across the Universe" is his best bet.

    American Idol Heads to Vegas and Bets Big on The Beatles: We Pick Their Songs! 2011

  • This year's "Idol" wind-up toy, Carson Higgins of Malibu, has also picked "My Prerogative" to sing.

    'American Idol' 2011 rolls on through Hollywood Week 2011

  • We were expecting awesome, but we were not expecting quite so much awesome, and thus have revised our contest slightly by incorporating a small quantity of Additional Prizewinning Categories, as is our Prerogative.

    Author-friends, We Have A Winners 2009

  • We were expecting awesome, but we were not expecting quite so much awesome, and thus have revised our contest slightly by incorporating a small quantity of Additional Prizewinning Categories, as is our Prerogative.

    Archive 2009-11-01 2009

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