discretionary

How To Use discretionary In A Sentence

• Families are switching their spending from essentials such as food and petrol to discretionary items as they treat themselves to little luxuries. Times, Sunday Times
• Hon. Members must recall that these are, after all, discretionary awards.
• The commission has discretionary power to award extra funds
• The rule of law operates as a bar to untrammelled discretionary power.
• As its name suggests, a discretionary will trust gives the trustees complete control over when the beneficiaries inherit. Times, Sunday Times
• After three years of increases in discretionary spending power, households are beginning to feel the squeeze. Times, Sunday Times
• It also virtually freezes funding for domestic discretionary programs other than homeland security.
• Take, for example, the issue of the award of discretionary grants to students.
• Thus, the bank instructed simply to buy or sell securities has fewer fiduciary duties than if it is the manager of a discretionary fund.
• Secondly, they retained 25 percent of capitation monies outside the formula system for discretionary allocations.