Sentence examples for be given discretion from inspiring English sources
verb
To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. may take two objects
Under one option being examined by ministers – who were expecting the strong vote – judges would be given discretion to decide which prisoners could vote.
Finally, principals will apparently be given discretion to hire who they want, and they will be held accountable for the performance of their schools.
Police would be given discretion to remove face masks from people on the street "under any circumstances where there is reasonable suspicion that they are related to criminal activity".
Conservative MPs have joined the protests against the criminal courts charge as Michael Gove hinted that judges and magistrates could be given discretion over whether to waive the penalty.
Alex Chalk, the MP for Cheltenham, suggested that judges and magistrates should in the short term be given discretion over applying the charge until the review of the charge had been concluded.
The independent fiscal authority would then be given discretion to increase or reduce income-tax rates across the board within a narrow band of, say, a percentage point either side of existing rates.
These groups are given discretion over most of the tickets, meaning that the audiences are usually a politically charged bunch.
Captain McVay's defenders note that he had been given discretion -- not ordered -- to steer a zigzag course and had done so for a time, and that he had been advised there was little threat of enemy submarines.
I can tell you for a fact that the police on the scene are given discretion to use the amount of force reasonable and necessary and with a knowledge of the law, to get "the job" done.
When the Medicaid program was created in the mid-1960'statestes were given discretion over whether and how to share their portion of the burden with counties, said Mitchell Sahn, executive director of health and human services in Nassau County.
Until recently, Parliament set maximum and minimum sentences and judges were given discretion to set the duration of a sentence.
