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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 Sir John Barrow


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