discretional
Example Sentences
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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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
