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Campaigning as a blood sport Reprints Related items Brazil and Argentina: To Lula's creditSep 2nd 2004To make matters worse, the national government has little discretion over spending.
Under that law, the state has little discretion in how to make the cuts, and Mr. Siegelman has called a special legislative session to seek more flexibility.
Local government accounts for a quarter of total government spending but the great bulk of this is handed out by central government rather than raised locally; and it has little discretion over how it spends the money.
Having worked at a public defender's office, I know that people often have little discretion about where and what type of treatment they get.
Under current laws, judges have little discretion over whether a drug offender will be imprisoned, and if so, for how long.
Beyond setting the scope for the kinds of deals they will list, portals — unlike brokers — will have little discretion to choose which companies list on their sites, said Douglas Ellenoff, a securities lawyer with the New York firm Ellenoff Grossman & Schole.
Local courts have little discretion in executing other countries' arrest warrants, even when varying standards of procedural fairness and respect for human rights make nonsense of the mutual recognition that underpins the system.
Although the bill currently says a judge has to agree with a minister's decision to order a secret session, critics claim that the judge would in reality have little discretion and would be obliged to back the decision in most cases.
De Francisci had had little discretion in that project, and later said of the work, "I do not consider it very favorably".
