Sentence examples for ability to exercise discretion from inspiring English sources

The law also established mandatory detention and deportation for certain crimes (like burglary and fraud), and eliminated immigration judges' ability to exercise discretion on a case-by-case basis.

Many of those jailed under joint enterprise rules for secondary roles in crimes have been handed extremely long sentences because judges' ability to exercise discretion in individual cases was curtailed by the imposition of mandatory life tariffs for murder under the 2003 Criminal Justice Act.

"Quite recently the ICC board decided that people in such circumstances where they have fully admitted their part, where they certainly had shown true remorse, where they had acted to help us in all our anti-corruption efforts and where the home federation and the ICC gave their prior approval, I as chairman of the anti-corruption unit then had the ability to exercise discretion.

"Police have the ability to exercise discretion in some cases but when an indictable offense is brought to our attention, we must act and investigate".

Obama has supported federal court trials in the past, and the proposed ban would represent a serious encroachment on the executive's ability to exercise prosecutorial discretion.

"If somebody tells you how to exercise discretion," he said, "you don't have discretion".

They seem clearly to fall into the category that requires the Home Office to exercise discretion".

"It seems to me with professional responsibility comes a duty to exercise discretion," he said.

Because of the action, "parents do need to exercise discretion," Mr. Eisenberg said.

Some people indeed, some prosecutors—suspect that prosecutors may be too hard-pressed to exercise discretion wisely.

In effect, state officials are urging the Obama administration to exercise discretion it was granted by Congress.