Sentence examples similar to very discretion from inspiring English sources

But the president has very limited discretion.

So the judge had very little discretion, if any.

On the expense side particularly, she said, "there are larger issues and very little discretion.

Under section 3(1) of the NHS Act 2006, the Secretary of State for Health has a very wide discretion.

But once a guilty plea has been extracted, judges have very little discretion as to how long the sentence should be.

But it is difficult to see how it can be reduced by much, given the very limited discretion allowed to the courts by David Blunkett's Criminal Justice Act.

To prevent future inflation, the system rigidly pegged the value of the peso at one dollar, and left very little discretion in monetary policy.

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".