Sentence examples for allows discretion from inspiring English sources

New York allows discretion -- by the police in New York City and by county judges elsewhere.

It allows discretion to member states to use averaging, specifying a weekly exposure limit of 87 decibels, and to allow a transition period for implementation.

They transform a federal policy that allows discretion in seeking serious criminals among illegal immigrants into a state mandate to target everyone in Arizona illegally.

The law transforms a federal policy that allows discretion in seeking serious criminals among illegal immigrants into a state mandate to single out everyone in Arizona illegally.

Congress is free to constrain that discretion greatly, but if a statute allows discretion then the President is not failing to execute the law when he exercises it.

While state election official cite case law they say allows discretion in things like spelling, state law says write-in votes will be counted if the write-in oval is filled in and "if the name, as it appears on the write-in declaration of candidacy, of the candidate or of the last name of the candidate is written in the space provided".

But Mr. Volcker said those provisions should not allow discretion.

Previous administrations allowed discretion for immigrants seeking humanitarian relief.

(The home plate umpire was allowed discretion to ignore the clock in such situations).

"Rather than setting an arbitrary cut-off date, we should be allowing discretion within the new scheme," she said.

But it's hard to develop an approach that is flexible enough to allow discretion, yet rigid enough to be effective.