Sentence examples for discretionary part from inspiring English sources

The discretionary part is tiny.

"We are dealing with the discretionary part of the budget".

"It's just the blind zeal for cuts in the discretionary part of the budget, regardless of the consequences," Kind said.

Mr. Eddins, who married recently, said he expected to use the discretionary part of the grant to put his personal economy on a stable footing.

Matthew Hourihan, an AAAS spokesman, criticized lawmakers for trimming the discretionary part of the federal budget rather than focusing on mandatory spending and taxes.

Meanwhile, the C.B.O. expects the discretionary part of the budget — which includes every program requiring annual appropriations, from the budgets of the Pentagon and the National Science Foundation to worker training programs and early childhood education — will shrink to its smallest share of the economy since the Eisenhower administration.

"We cannot keep going in this fashion or soon my county government, like all the other county governments here, are just going to be a shell that is a distributor of state services with absolutely no discretionary parts of the budget left," Mr. Levy said.

Higher education usually falls under the "discretionary spending" part of the budget — and in fact is often one of the biggest programs, if not the biggest, in the discretionary category.

Using the Abra platform, any "teller" can accept paper currency, charge a discretionary fee (part of which is split with Abra) and then transfer full funds to a corresponding "teller" across borders, who receives the funds and hands the paper equivalent to their end-recipient.

The Senate and House numbers differ so dramatically in part because the two bodies are working with very different numbers for the discretionary portion of the overall federal budget.

The discretionary spending parts of the Obama stimulus are expiring as we speak.