Nothing was done to arrest this by the local council, which had discretionary powers to do so.

"You can't give discretionary power when there are 10,000 of these in the air."

The act gave bishops the discretionary power to order a stay of proceedings.

In fact they have discretionary powers on all empty houses.

In brief the bill gave too much discretionary power to the secretary of the interior.

They have discretionary power to support students in further or higher education, including those who study part time.

"A judge with some discretionary power would take all that into consideration," he said.

We must therefore leave developing countries some discretionary powers in this area.

"I have a certain amount of discretionary power when I'm operating undercover in the field."

The third reason is the discretionary power to adjust class shares.