Sentence examples for discretionary process from inspiring English sources

This is a particularly vulnerable group going forward, as naturalisation is a discretionary process.

He is the second councilman charged in recent months with stealing city money through the discretionary process.

The application of a crime type label is to some extent a discretionary process and therefore the process is open to manipulation.

California prohibits cities from requiring a discretionary process to decide which granny flats are allowed — as the old L.A. ordinance did — but it still allows cities to set some local standards for their size and placement.

The allocation of research funds to specific areas and research projects is almost entirely a discretionary process.

At the same time he defended the Council and the administration's efforts to clean up its discretionary financing process.

"Unlike the City Council and borough presidents, the mayor's office cannot designate contractors to receive funds through the discretionary funding process," wrote Edward Skyler, a deputy mayor.

"Without transparency and accountability in the budget process, discretionary items are ripe for abuse," Mr. Garcia said at a news conference announcing the indictment.

In these studies, there seems to be a concurrence of factors that facilitate the emergence of corruption in FDI projects, such are market power of the industries that attract private investment, discretionary decision-making processes in host countries, and poorly accountable public officials.

They concluded, 'far from leading to more transparent, fair and equitable allocation of resources, RASs obfuscate discretionary care planning processes and make it harder for service users to challenge unfair or inequitable allocations' [ 25].

A congressional aide said that in addition to revenues, the agenda for Thursday's talks included the budget process and discretionary spending.