Sentence examples for expanded discretion from inspiring English sources

"For income verification, for the first year of operations, we are providing (state and federal) exchanges with temporarily expanded discretion to accept an attestation of projected annual household income without further verification," the rule said.

Advocates argue that Obama could expand discretion and deferred action policies to others as well.

Chief Justice Roberts noted that foreign judges were not accountable to the American people and said that allowing the use of foreign precedent expanded judicial discretion.

In 1999, the Delaware Court of Chancery expanded the discretion afforded to directors with respect to their own compensation by upholding a ratification defense in the context of director compensation decisions made pursuant to a stockholder-approved plan with "specific ceilings" on awards to each director.

He would expand judges' discretion and end mandatory sentencing.

Judging from the remarks of Assembly members at last week's session, they want major change, in particular to expand "judicial discretion" over the fate of convicted drug offenders.

This consensus has been reached because the government has accepted most of the changes made in the House of Lords that expand judicial discretion.

However, in recent years, the President has sought to expand his discretion through a variety of controversial and legally questionable tactics.

These may sound like small details, but they are precisely the kinds of nitpicking regulations that empower and expand police discretion to arrest and fine, and that make it harder to express political opinions.

The Democratic leadership of the State Assembly introduced legislation today to revamp the state's mandatory drug sentencing laws, expanding judicial discretion over the sentencing of drug felons and adding thousands of treatment slots in the state prison system.

One wonders: Why? Their party is doctrinally devoted to marginalizing the legislative branch in order to expand the discretion of the administrative state as an instrument of executive power.