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discretional

[dih-skresh-uh-nl] / dɪˈskrɛʃ ə nl /






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Rhondda Cynon Taf council said it would offer a £1,000 Community Flood Recovery Grant, additional to a Welsh government's scheme, for both residents and businesses, as well as discretional funding for flood-prevention measures.

From BBC Nov. 30, 2024

They asked agency officials to justify what they consider changes to the requirements for Afghans to prove they need parole despite the agency’s discretional authority.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 21, 2021

Being considered middle class when your discretional income has all but disappeared makes it difficult to keep up the pretense.

From New York Times Aug. 30, 2016

In a Jan. 30 “Moneybox,” Matthew Yglesias wrote that federal sequestration would cut military programs by 16.3 percent and domestic discretional programs by 9.2 percent.

From Slate Feb. 1, 2013

It should, however, have been recollected, that the Court had no discretional power to pass any other sentence but that, or a full acquittal.

From The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences by Barrow, John, Sir




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