Sentence examples for discretion setting from inspiring English sources

The judge acting on his own discretion is the modern equivalent of the king's messenger riding to the gallows.An especially strange spectacle is presented by Lord Woolf, a fierce defender of judicial discretion, setting rules for other judges to follow.

And wouldn't you have to agree that the "may ignore" may does connote some degree of discretion, and why isn't that discretion set on the basis of that she may ignore them if they're going -- if the acceptance of the amended certification would prejudice the other voters whose votes would be certified because they were already there and get timely counted in the Electoral College?

In the remaining three states, maximum sentencing could not be quantified due to the broad judicial discretion set forth under the law (Table  1).

"Judges have discretion when setting bail".

States have broad discretion in setting Medicaid payment rates.

A better option is to give the management councils greater discretion in setting targets and deadlines for rebuilding fish stocks.

He also had wide discretion in setting prices and deciding what parcels the county would seek to acquire.

In a visit to MedImmune, Christie called for "balance" between public health and parental discretion in setting vaccinations policy.

"Retailers had little option but to surrender their discretion in setting retail prices if they wanted to avoid a serious disruption of their business," he said.

"The incumbent attorney general has enormous discretion in setting the priorities of the office," said Robert B. Ward, deputy director of the Rockefeller Institute of Government, a research institution in Albany.

The biggest sore point is the Financial Services Agency itself, which is widely criticized as having enormous discretion in setting rules and enforcing them.