Sentence examples for unchecked discretion from inspiring English sources
Authority is the glue that holds together diversity and prevents units from exercising unchecked discretion.
That means unchecked discretion to the legislative and executive branches inconsistent with the Constitution's checks and balances.
In the words of Angela J Davis, a law professor at American University: "The unchecked discretion of prosecutors is extraordinary, and the mechanisms of accountability we have don't work".
On the other hand, unchecked discretion to lump disparate needs together, making large contracts even larger -- and thereby less likely to be awarded to a small business competing against a larger one -- is a problem.
As it stands, nearly unchecked prosecutorial discretion has proved to be as scary as nearly unchecked judicial discretion was before.
Until DHS moves to disclose its policies, it does not deserve the benefit of the doubt that it uses its unchecked power with discretion.
Sessions also infamously fought to prosecute three civil rights activists for voter fraud in a case that former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, who worked on the case, called a "cautionary tale" of "what can happen when prosecutorial discretion is unchecked, when regard for facts is secondary to political objectives".
As Marvin Frankel, a Democrat, argued back in 1973, when judges had very wide discretion, "The almost wholly unchecked and sweeping powers we give to judges in the fashioning of sentences are terrifying and intolerable for a society that professes devotion to the rule of law".
In an era of unchecked self-expression and emotional outbursts, modesty and discretion made Sade a star.
Unchecked, he actually would.
