Sentence examples for had discretion from inspiring English sources

Governments had discretion at the margins.

"My first bank manager had discretion to deal with me.

The police had discretion to prosecute parents, he added.

But a loophole in Canadian financial law meant that banks had discretion to fulfill those guarantees.

Under the 1995 exceptions, judges had discretion over some nonviolent felonies and most low-level felonies.

She wrote that she had discretion to decide whether to cede jurisdiction to the National Labor Relations Board.

She obviously has discretion.

She said, "The S.E.C. has discretion.

I agree that judges should have discretion.

"Judges have discretion when setting bail".

"The government has discretion on whether to proceed criminally".