The granting of furloughs is entirely discretionary with the Superintendent. It may be denied altogether, but usually is not, except as punishment for some grave offence.英文原著 · 《Henry Ossian Flipper》
"And I," said the president, "in virtue of my discretionary power, do order that Aubert be meanwhile arrested and taken to prison."英文原著 · 《Mauprat》
5, 1743 -- I have had two letters of late from Mr. Mussenden; one about five weeks ago, with an invitation to Mr. Leechman to succeed Dr. Kilpatrick. Leechman was then just upon his marriage. I concluded the matter {466} quite impracticable, and returned an answer to that purpose; and, upon conversing, Leechman found I was not then mistaken. He was lately very ill treated by our judges in a discretionary augmentation he applied for, which they could have given with full consent of parties. His wife is not so averse to removal as formerly.英文原著 · 《The Scottish Philosophy》
What's this 600 bucks you've already taken out of my nonexistent discretionary money?美剧 · 《Shameless》