Sentence examples for were given discretion from inspiring English sources
When the Medicaid program was created in the mid-1960'statestes were given discretion over whether and how to share their portion of the burden with counties, said Mitchell Sahn, executive director of health and human services in Nassau County.
Until recently, Parliament set maximum and minimum sentences and judges were given discretion to set the duration of a sentence.
A 'target joint' as defined in the CHESS study encompasses any joint with known chronic synovitis; in contrast to previous clinical studies [18], study investigators were given discretion as to how this may be further defined with respect to bleed frequency and period of observation.
These groups are given discretion over most of the tickets, meaning that the audiences are usually a politically charged bunch.
Conservative MPs have joined the protests against the criminal courts charge as Michael Gove hinted that judges and magistrates could be given discretion over whether to waive the penalty.
Finally, principals will apparently be given discretion to hire who they want, and they will be held accountable for the performance of their schools.
Under one option being examined by ministers – who were expecting the strong vote – judges would be given discretion to decide which prisoners could vote.
Even interest-only loans would be acceptable in some instances, and what few rules there were could be circumvented because bankers would be given discretion when applying the rules.
Alex Chalk, the MP for Cheltenham, suggested that judges and magistrates should in the short term be given discretion over applying the charge until the review of the charge had been concluded.
The independent fiscal authority would then be given discretion to increase or reduce income-tax rates across the board within a narrow band of, say, a percentage point either side of existing rates.
Police would be given discretion to remove face masks from people on the street "under any circumstances where there is reasonable suspicion that they are related to criminal activity".
