Instead of relatively indiscriminate food stamps, to which anyone who meets federal criteria is entitled, Ryan would delegate more discretion to states and local authorities -- and the state would keep a closer eye on recipients.
Instead of expanding state gun laws, Florida state Sen. Arthenia Joyner (D-Tampa) proposed giving greater discretion to state judges, according to the Associated Press.
The state fees in question are solely the discretion of state legislatures and governors and nothing says they can't or won't go up.
Joseph P. Klock Jr., a lawyer for the Republican secretary of state, Katherine Harris, said that under state law, such judgments were up to her and that she had properly exercised her discretion under state law in deciding not to accept late recounts.
There is also quite a bit of discretion in stating that the economy may shrink by anywhere from 5 to 20percentt.
Partly in the interests of the nobility, the extent of land owned by the church was restricted; Peter disposed of ecclesiastical and monastic property and revenues at his own discretion, for state purposes.
As Kennedy writes in the ruling, the order that the Court upholds, issued by a three-judge panel, leaves the choice of means to reduce overcrowding to the discretion of state officials.
"Judges have the discretion under state law to reduce the bail amount if they believe the person is indigent," said attorney Mike Herald of the Western Center on Law and Poverty.
Naji's case exposes an immense failure of the Egyptian legal system: first, in its embrace of vague provisions that grant immense and improper discretion to state officials to interpret as they please and second, in its willingness to compromise universal human rights at the expense of false choices.
That has sparked fears among many Kentucky teachers that the absence of a budget could leave Bevin with wide discretion over state finances, a position that could allow him to cut public education budgets as he'd initially attempted, and potentially restore funding for charters.
