() Left to discretion; unrestrained except by discretion or judgment; as, an ambassador with discretionary powers.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is no evidence that health-maintenance organizations reduce admissions in discretionary or "unnecessary" categories; instead, the data suggest lower admission rates across the board.
(2) A way must be found to experiment with various discretionary approaches that would strike a realistic balance among competing interests.
(3) "It was always our intention that foster carers and armed forces personnel would be covered by discretionary housing payments (DHPs) and therefore not affected.
(4) A mistake was introduced in the editing process to suggest Lall had applied for for a discretionary payment from Westminster council but had been turned down.
(5) Howard Archer of IHS Global Insight said: "While the further pick-up in UK car sales in October was clearly driven primarily by the scrappage scheme and a desire to beat January's VAT hike, it may also be a sign that a significant number of consumers have greater scope and willingness to step up their discretionary spending.
(6) This study examines the contextual and ideological dimensions of attitudes toward discretionary abortion using two national surveys.
(7) Many of these will in fact be dealt with via a discretionary fund.
(8) Recent research has found that the multiplier for discretionary fiscal policy – the change in output caused by a change in discretionary government spending – is larger when nominal interest rates are low and there is a significant amount of under-utilised resources.
(9) But the employers can achieve the basic legal minimum wage for the state only by including in the calculation statutory benefits such as maternity pay and sickness benefit, and discretionary items such as free tea.
(10) Councils can make discretionary housing payments (DHPs) to those tenants who are at risk of falling behind in rent and getting into debt as a result of the change.
(11) Oversight staff in 23 of the 30 states with legislation regulating continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) completed a questionnaire surveying features of implementation experience such as problems encountered with the scope of regulation, the appropriateness of oversight placement, the adequacy of staff and financial resources, the use of discretionary agency authority, and attitudes toward various changes in applicable state law.
(12) Every time I thought about my own gold-plated life as a journalist - the taxis, the Guardian's car, my mobile phone, eating out, or the gifts for my family and what's called "discretionary spending" on pleasing non-necessities - it seemed undoable.
(13) It found a typical family was left with £171 a week of discretionary income once taxes and essentials bills had been paid, up from £167 last year.
(14) Since most hospital programs are not discretionary, they cannot be successfully evaluated by the "decision package" methodology of ZBPD.
(15) Financial workers at Wall Street's top banks are to receive pay deals worth more than $70bn (£40bn), a substantial proportion of which is expected to be paid in discretionary bonuses, for their work so far this year - despite plunging the global financial system into its worst crisis since the 1929 stock market crash, the Guardian has learned.
(16) "The Department for Work and Pensions' continued claim that discretionary housing payments [DHP] will protect all of the most vulnerable is simply not true.
(17) A variety of exemptions, discretionary funds and variable rates are being debated , but at the core of the debate is whether or not the principles behind the policy are the right ones for a modern democracy.
(18) Alternatively, might it not suggest that quite apart from banal, administrative, bureaucratic "filtering" – routine chucking out cases sent by applicants many years after a final domestic disposal, or without any domestic proceedings having been undertaken – the court is already making extensive use of highly discretionary concepts such as "manifestly ill-founded" to pre-judge the interest of its caseload, and is already selecting cases which it regards as "serious" or "important"?
(19) Although ministers have introduced a £165m discretionary housing fund for London councils in 2013-14 to help families who can make a special case for staying, the CPAG report says this is inadequate and amounts to less than 10% of the shortfall in benefit income caused by changes.
(20) Successive governments have multiplied the number of acts that can be deemed criminal or misdemeanours, constructing a regime of unaccountable discretionary decisions that blight people’s lives.
Disposable
Definition:
(a.) Subject to disposal; free to be used or employed as occasion may require; not assigned to any service or use.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have compared two new methods (a solvent extraction technique and a method involving a disposable, pre-packed reverse phase chromatography cartridge) with the standard method for determining the radiochemical purity of 99Tcm-HMPAO.
(2) The Hamilton-Wentworth regional health department was asked by one of its municipalities to determine whether the present water supply and sewage disposal methods used in a community without piped water and regional sewage disposal posed a threat to the health of its residents.
(3) The reduction is believed due to the currently used pre-prepared disposable or reusable capsules containing the amalgam versus formerly mixing the ingredients manually.
(4) But in the rush to design it, Girardet wonders if the finer details of waste disposal and green power were lost.
(5) Remember, if he did seize group power and dispose of the Independent , he'd still be boss of the rest of INM: 200 or so papers and magazines around the world, dominant voices in Australasia, South Africa, India and Ireland itself, 100 million readers a week.
(6) Microsequencing of the peptides resolved by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis indicates that the amino terminus of the protein is disposed at or near the cytoplasmic surface of the gap junction, and that this surface also contains a protease-hypersensitive hydrophilic sequence between residues 109 and 123, presumably connecting the second and third transmembrane segments.
(7) It's not a great stretch to see parallels between the movie's set-up and the film industry in 2012: disposable teens are manipulated into behaving in certain ways, before being degraded and dispatched, all the while being remotely observed by middle-aged men, gambling on their fates.
(8) These studies demonstrated that in normal subjects at both physiological and maximally stimulating plasma insulin concentrations, glucose storage is a major factor in distinguishing between those with low or high rates of insulin-mediated glucose disposal.
(9) • Regulations requiring manufacturers of electrical goods and batteries to take financial responsibility for their safe disposal will be liberalised or improved.
(10) Soft lenses also provide the options of disposability and of iris color change.
(11) In the microfibrillar phase, there were two layers; an outer, thicker layer of randomly disposed microfibrils and an inner, thin layer of microfibrils oriented parallel to the hyphal axis.
(12) Current evidence supports the view that the ubiquitin system is responsible for the disposal of aberrant proteins formed by stress.
(13) Attention is given to the poor design of a disposable cellulose sponge that results in frequent hooking of sutures during microsurgical procedures.
(14) If the pants did become available in clinics, Dukelow said costs might be around a few hundred dollars (around £125) for the basic equipment plus a few tens of dollars per month for the disposable electrodes.
(15) The records of visits of children and adolescents to the emergency department of the Vancouver General Hospital were reviewed during the period July 1, 1965, to June 30, 1966, and the diagnostic and disposal data recorded.
(16) The disposal of ADP level in liver is similar to the disposal of ATP.
(17) You will also need to find alternative disposable bags for shops to stock while people get into the habit of bringing their own bag, however, and for when they forget.
(18) XUBF is a Xenopus ribosomal transcription factor of the HMG-box family which contains five tandemly disposed homologies to the HMG1 & 2 DNA binding domains.
(19) For most communities embarking on such a program a programmable infusion system will be more cost-effective than a disposable system.
(20) We still have at our disposal the rational interpretive skills that are the legacy of humanistic education, not as a sentimental piety enjoining us to return to traditional values or the classics but as the active practice of worldly secular rational discourse.