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How to use discretionary in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word discretionary? Here are some examples.

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He therefore suggested that the police use the discretionary policy to deal with the problem.
He adds a love of the horse and availability of discretionary spending was keeping interest high.
It's the first time she's used her discretionary power since taking over as Immigration Minister just over a month ago.
It will sharply boost military spending, reorder budgetary priorities, and put constraints on discretionary spending for other programs.
These were entirely discretionary decisions which were open to them on the evidence and material before them.
The difficulty was rewording the discretionary world in a new way for the second half of the century.
It is to be noted first that this regulation provides a discretionary power to apportion the benefit.
He is wearing proper attire and earns discretionary bonus points for an impeccably hand-tied bow.
If the settlor is to be a beneficiary of the trust, it would normally be a discretionary trust.
The hotel's 800 employees agreed to forgo discretionary annual bonuses recently in hopes of saving jobs.
Take, for example, the issue of the award of discretionary grants to students.
This festival, like others, has fallen foul of cuts made to the council's discretionary services by the cabinet, of which I am a member.
As a result there was very little money left for discretionary services, like free transport and leisure facilities.
Consuming less means people can work less and that increases the amount of their discretionary free time.
They keep taxes high but then give discretionary relief in the form of grants to their mates.
Compare this to the discretionary spending available to, say, a family-owned company.
His object in this is to take advantage of the discretionary nature of the relief available to the court in such a case.
The order would also give the police discretionary powers to confiscate alcohol if they believe its consumption is causing a public nuisance.
The council must now notify leaseholders again to tell them that the original discretionary arrangement will be retained after all.
It also virtually freezes funding for domestic discretionary programs other than homeland security.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It may be needless to add that a discretionary power was then extended to him.
Take away from the court the discretionary power to discharge, and the writ is rendered an idle form.
As a result, AME has the flexibility to reduce discretionary spending in order to support its liquidity and other credit measures.
But the exercise of the active right of legation is discretionary.
Change agents possessing low discretionary powers are most likely to act as insurrectionary or subversive change agents.
Studies on earnings management indicates that items of discretionary accruals are important, such as items are that management can manipulate them.
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