Sentence examples for lacks discretion from inspiring English sources

The secretary of state lacks discretion to selectively reject manual recounts as part of Florida's vote tally.

The Department of Education responded to that comment by stating it "lacks discretion to exempt other types of programs... including ABA-accredited law schools" and that "the issues of accountability for student outcomes, including excessive student debt, and transparency are as relevant to graduate programs and students as they are to undergraduate programs and students".

Officers lack discretion in meeting strict arrest, summons and stop and frisk quotas.

She signed off adding: "So I'll hope you'll indulge my wifely pride in seeing this one repeated in headlines everywhere!!" Frum said the email "only went to about 15 people", but one of that number clearly lacked discretion and it ended up splashed across the online magazine, Slate.

Still, my students and peers see themselves as limited to only the confines of the tasks given them — as lacking discretion.

"Well," he said after a pause, "another inexperienced young Turk, lacking discretion and judgment, assigned to an anti-crime unit".

She told county canvassing boards they lacked the discretion to conduct manual recounts -- recounts Mr. Gore desperately wanted.

She did not consider any facts and circumstances, but rather cited case law to the effect that she lacked the discretion that indeed the court found with its previous order that she did have.

Which makes it all the more frustrating that "Discretion" lacks narrative urgency.

It has become painfully clear that what the National Security Agency lacks, above all, is discretion.

By Amy Davidson Sorkin October 25, 2013 It has become painfully clear that what the National Security Agency lacks, above all, is discretion.