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Example sentences for "discretionary power"

  • This, however, he argued, was rendered unavoidable by the necessity of the case; a discretionary power must be vested somewhere, in order to carry into effect the better principles to be introduced.

  • A discretionary power in the hands of such a man as the Governor of Coldbath Fields would thoroughly test the experiment.

  • The above incident may, I hope, attract the notice of someone in authority, and be the means of giving a discretionary power to governors of prisons as regards the treatment of a certain class of prisoners.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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