Sentence examples for controlled discretionary from inspiring English sources

Jill S. Levy, the president of the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators, said part of the problem was that before Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg centralized the school system, the city's 32 community school districts, now basically defunct, controlled discretionary money that could be given to schools with special needs not addressed by the general budget process.

"This includes lowering variable incentive compensation, controlling discretionary spending and limiting staff".

You have to deal with entitlements; you have to be in a position to control discretionary spending.

America's long-term fiscal health depends less on controlling discretionary spending (the current focus of Mr Bush) than on controlling entitlements.

That is why many developers say that while they maintain ties to the administration, which controls discretionary permits and tax incentives, they also want to see someone else in charge of a plan for future economic development.

Some advocates propose including physicians' use of DAs as a quality measure aimed at controlling discretionary healthcare spending.

Presenting new rescission procedures as a tool for imposing fiscal responsibility reinforces the wrongheaded notion that the deficit is caused by out-of-control discretionary spending, especially on pork-barrel projects.

With concerns about employment little changed from the beginning of the year, and more than 40% of consumers saying they're in need of at least one more tax-rebate season to get their debts under control, discretionary spending levels aren't likely rise soon.

A8 NATIONAL A13-19 LeaderServeserves Notice On House Spending The House leadership has pulled in the reins on the 13 Republican members who control most discretionary federal spending.

As Bob Reischauer of the Urban Institute puts it, even the strictest controls on discretionary spending will be a "rounding error" in the overall budget problem of the future.

In a display of discipline applauded by some of the most conservative House members, the leadership pulled in the reins on the 13 Republican members who control most discretionary federal spending, a group of subcommittee chairmen so powerful they are known as the Cardinals.