discretionary decision
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdiscretionaryanddecision
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discretionary
adjective
uk/dɪˈskreʃ.ən.ər.i/us/dɪˈskreʃ.ən.er.i/
able to be decided by a particular person or group, rather than being controlled by rules, or relating to the power to make ...
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decision
noun
uk/dɪˈsɪʒ.ən/us/dɪˈsɪʒ.ən/
a choice that you make about something after thinking about ...
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(Definition ofdiscretionaryanddecisionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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For all witnesses, deciding just what and what not to say to examining magistrates was another part of adiscretionarydecision-making process.
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Law's moral power may be realised through sentencing by developing the capacity for judicialdiscretionarydecision-making to shape social reality.
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Figure 1 suggests key elements in the relationship between law and morality which are crystallised in the outcomes ofdiscretionarydecision-making within the criminal process.
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An affirmative reporting requirement is preferable to reliance on thediscretionarydecisionof a minister about whether a rights infringement is sufficiently serious to warrant a report to parliament.
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This implies that for restorative themes to impact on international penality requires the link between moral justification and legitimacy to be forged through processual norms by instrumentaldiscretionarydecision-making.
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Grant-aiding voluntary activity is essentially a matter fordiscretionarydecisionby the body giving the grant.
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To upset adiscretionarydecisionof a judge in the appeal court one has to show that he acted on some wrong principle.
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I did not find the position enhanced by what he said about adiscretionarydecisionbeing properly arrived at.
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Discretionarydecision, properly exercised, which the complainant dislikes but cannot fault the manner in which it was taken, is excluded by this clause.
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It is quite different from the situation now, where there is adiscretionarydecisionto bring him before the board.
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They are here only on adiscretionarydecision.
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The second is concerned with access to the courts if adiscretionarydecisionis challenged.
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But our concern is that, while asylum is a legal obligation, exceptional leave to remain is adiscretionarydecision.
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Again, one of the main achievements of the fund has been to set responsive,discretionarydecision-making within a budgetary framework which ensures that the highest needs are met.
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It would not he helpful to the children for whom maintenance is due to return to a situation in which their chances of receiving maintenance depended on adiscretionarydecision.
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We appear to differ on the status of adiscretionarydecisionwhen there is no specific exclusion of its consideration by a court in the relevant legislation.
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It might be argued that the effect of the subsection in that position would be to preclude an investigation altogether where there was adiscretionarydecision.
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The most likely claimant would be an individual who has been adversely affected by adiscretionarydecision under the nominee's authorityfor example someone denied a passport.
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This capacity derives from the notion that discretionary decisions about punishment in criminal trials are instrumental to the extent that they are capable of transforming values into individual conduct norms.
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In the light of that decision so many discretionary decisions taken by judges in matrimonial cases are simply unappealable.
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