Sentence examples for discretion away from inspiring English sources

They impose mandatory prison sentences, taking discretion away from judges.

"This is taking discretion away from the U.S. attorneys' offices," he said.

The history: Created by Congress beginning in the 1980s, the mandatory penalties took discretion away from judges and fueled the major increase in the U.S. prison population.

In my prior role as chief judge of the state of New York, I saw firsthand how the punitive lawmaking of the past generation — particularly mandatory minimum sentences — effectively moved discretion away from front-line judges.

On Tuesday, he criticised a policy announcement from the Coalition which would see criminals convicted of repeat killings or serious sex offences given an indefinite jail sentence, taking that discretion away from judges.

We ended the Rockefeller-era drug sentencing rules that took discretion away from our judges and filled our prisons with nonviolent offenders, and we closed 24 prisons and juvenile detention centers, eliminating prison beds and reducing by more than 5,000 the number of men and women behind bars.

"We're now saying we want a lot of the discretion taken away from the broker," Mr. Bowman explained.

She isn't really a romantic/sexual foil to Hunt, despite at one point uttering an invitation almost Edwardian in its discretion: "Come away with me…" Rather, she's a feline free agent, quizzically cerebral and something of a stylist when it comes to action; adept at knife-fighting, she also specialises in that leaping-on-necks trick practised by Daryl Hannah's replicant in Blade Runner.

"Their discretion took away the goal that would have won the game for us," said Parrish, still a bit worked up after discussing the situation with the two referees.

At your discretion, clip away any small or unwanted stray branches.

Policy 1114 amended K14, purportedly to take away discretion when seat belting a detainee.