How To Use Discretion In A Sentence
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Sometimes, as here, valor among black minstrels consisted of exercising discretion and living to fight another day.
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Larsson sometimes joined in the fun, but with more discretion.
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He was embarrassed and even ashamed of his indiscretion, but then he realized that there was no way he could have been heard above the roar of the boisterous crowd.
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If I were rolling in discretional funds, I might want one as a fun gun to take to the range, just to see the local Rambos react to it.
A Tactical Side-by-Side Shotgun?
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These are not the sorts of cases where prosecutorial discretion naturally disfavors prosecution.
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Even if you knew some delicious, salacious gossip, some tantalising indiscretion, to let it slip would feel like treason.
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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
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His Honour did not misapprehend the facts, he did not misapply legal principle, he did not miscalculate the damages, nor did he err in the exercise of his discretion.
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By resorting to nonwar means of achieving his objectives, he would earn worldwide acclamation and gratitude by letting peace prevail, following the wise old saying, "Discretion is the better part of valor.
Mail Call: Show Us The Proof
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For example, it would be impermissible for the Society because it did not wish to offer annuities itself to use its discretion as to bonuses to make it more attractive for the policy holder to use another provider.
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That is always a difficult task for an authority, because it is left with discretion.
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There are two women in Britain who make her look the soul of discretion, refinement and good taste.
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Hon. Members must recall that these are, after all, discretionary awards.
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Reflect upon him, too, in your moments of dissipation, and let his idea controul your indiscretions -- not merely in an hour of contradiction call peevishly upon his name, only to wound the dearest friend you have.
A Simple Story
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She teaches how to continue with discretion what is thoughtlessly undertaken; she inclines the mind to cleave steadfastly to what was imposed upon it by authority; and imparts to a choice which, though rash at the time, is now irrevocable, all the sanctity, all the advisedness, and, let us say it boldly, all the cheerfulness of a lawful calling.
Chapter X
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The effect then is that the discretion conferred by Parliament is exercised, at least in part, by the wrong authority, and the resulting decision is ultra vires and void.
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Having learned that lies procreate exponentially, Rosas was forced to implement some rules and demand discretion.
HAVANA BEST FRIENDS
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The commission has discretionary power to award extra funds
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The rule of law operates as a bar to untrammelled discretionary power.
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As its name suggests, a discretionary will trust gives the trustees complete control over when the beneficiaries inherit.
Times, Sunday Times
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After three years of increases in discretionary spending power, households are beginning to feel the squeeze.
Times, Sunday Times
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It also virtually freezes funding for domestic discretionary programs other than homeland security.
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Count Mirabeau is a most wonderful man, but he is a more than questionable character; even if you marry him, your discretion may very reasonably be called in question, but terms of intimacy, except with that view, cannot for a moment be tolerated; - to talk of friendship for such a man is nonsense, unless, like the good old duchess, you had had a tendresse for the father, which made you patronising for the son.
Zoe: The History of Two Lives
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Take, for example, the issue of the award of discretionary grants to students.
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And with the discretion of rare breeding she carries into the haunts of vice and miserable intrigue the Italian byword: _Orecchie spalancate, e bocca stretta_.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
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The hours and the places of the meetings will be fixed at the chairman's discretion.
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Equipped with new detail on the operations of each individual factory, the company boss might feel more comfortable yielding greater discretion to each factory manager; any drop in production - or mysterious disappearance of yarn from the supply room - would raise red flags at the head office.
In defense of middle management
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Thus, the bank instructed simply to buy or sell securities has fewer fiduciary duties than if it is the manager of a discretionary fund.
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For in the lower orders its activity is not so evident; it has a lower degree of objectivation; whereas, in the class which stands above the higher order of animals, that is, in men, reason enters in; and with reason comes discretion, and with discretion, the capacity of dissimulation, which throws a veil over the operations of the will.
Religion
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The person purporting to exercise his discretion has acted in abuse or excess of his power.
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With the guilty discretion of a massage parlour, the gym hides itself above a parade of shops.
Times, Sunday Times
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The SEC, he said, "has no discretion-none-to fail to follow up, with serious investigations, when presented with knowledgeable, detailed, obviously highly competent, and in many respects easily 'checkable' allegations of … a huge fraud that is fooling thousands of people, stealing billions of dollars, and causing horrible injustice.
News Dissector Blog
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Occasionally they paid for their indiscretion with their lives.
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The exercise of these activities leaves the discretion of judicial authority and the free exercise of judicial power intact.
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There's no need for anyone to tell you what to do next - you're old enough to use your own discretion.
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An orthographical indiscretion: the adverb should be “discreetly.”
A Brief History of Shorthand - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com
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In the match programme yesterday he apologised for that indiscretion and claimed he was ‘under severe pressure’ at the time.
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After a scrappy start, both teams settled down with York producing a series of incisive moves, all of which collapsed either at the whistle of the referee or their own indiscretions.
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What is unfair can not sensibly be subject to different standards depending on the source of the discretion to exclude it.
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A broad reading would leave much more to the discretion of Congress, and arguably embrace the kinds of nonofficial failings for which Clinton stood exposed.
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We are driven back to the point, I think, as we so often are in public administration, that the answer lies as much in the wise exercise of discretion.
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Secondly, they retained 25 percent of capitation monies outside the formula system for discretionary allocations.
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For adult, non-residential care services the council has discretion as to the extent and level of charges it makes, but not when it comes to residential homes.
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The ordinary people are required to accept the Quran in its literal or exoteric sense whereas the philosophers have much more discretion in interpreting scriptural truth.
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It will sharply boost military spending, reorder budgetary priorities, and put constraints on discretionary spending for other programs.
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In all libels for divorce where the cause alleged is adultery, and where the adverse party does not appear, or is defaulted, the person alleged to be particeps criminis with the libellee may, in the discretion of the court, be allowed to appear and contest the libel.
Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
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He joined the firm in early 2002 to manage discretionary segregated portfolios and in-house funds.
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I instantly regret my indiscretion and beg him to keep the news to himself.
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It said that the 'promptness' criterion, which was up to a court's discretion, was not compatible with the Directive.
OUT-LAW News
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The premise of divisibility of public prosecution establishment is the doctrine of prosecuting discretion, which allocates prosecutor red-pros discretionary.
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Mr. Handscomb and the other applicants for judicial review were serving discretionary life sentences.
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But should we judge the man simply on this indiscretion?
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Why does discretionary fiscal policy often fail?
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If your score lies between a band, then it is at the discretion of the exam board what classification you receive.
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A topic that needs to be treated with delicacy and discretion.
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There is a marked return to double-breasted coats, discretion at first glance giving way to luxurious linings of mink and chinchilla.
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Whether managers fully exploit the pocket of discretion thus created depends on the intensity of their own commitment to profit maximisation.
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Those without a formula entitlement, both inside and outside metropolitan areas, would have to rely on discretionary grants.
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The House held that the discretion, being a discretion conferred by statute, must be exercised in accordance with the statutory intention.
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Where there is indiscretion we have got to be dealing with it.
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Instead, the matter of attendance is left to the discretion of the governors with no restriction on their discretion.
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The Profumo scandal showed that some acts of indiscretion and immorality would not be overlooked.
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Where the implementation of such strategic highs is in question the centre will limit the action space around interpretability and local discretion.
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After the expiry of the lease period, the landowner will be at his discretion to convert the land into a shopping complex or a multiplex.
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The president used his executive discretion to pardon the two men.
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Discretionary decisions by courts commonly involve weighing the benefits and detriments of a potential outcome.
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Judges should have a wide discretion to temper justice with mercy.
Times, Sunday Times
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In totally prohibiting a district court judge from exercising any discretion to facilitate exercise of the constitutional rights of public access by means of Internet or other electronic broadcasting of open-court sessions in civil cases, does the ruling below impermissibly restrict the judicial power vested in federal district court judges by the Constitution and creational statutes?
RIAA v Tenenbaum webcasting: redux?
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The executive directors are entitled to a discretionary Bonus.
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British newspapers no longer feel they must treat the royal family with discretion.
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Access is granted to select historians on a case-by-case basis, at the discretion of the royal household.
Times, Sunday Times
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In some circumstances the ref has to be allowed discretion.
The Sun
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Those who contribute a successful new idea receive a discretionary bonus.
Times, Sunday Times
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He saw, as he supposed, "the Okimow in peril of his life," and acted according to the dictates of his accursedly poor discretion.
The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake
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Police work involves a considerable degree of flexibility and discretion.
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It is a single premium insurance bond with a discretionary trust behind it.
Times, Sunday Times
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An analyst who demonstrates consistently sound judgment will be consider for a discretionary credit limit.
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Magistrates were given wider discretionary powers.
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Tholouse, whom Montoni had mentioned with more eclat to his own vanity than credit to their discretion, or regard to truth, she determined to give concerts, though she had neither ear nor taste for music; conversazioni, though she had no talents for conversation; and to outvie, if possible, in the gaieties of her parties and the magnificence of her liveries, all the noblesse of
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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The timing of all subsequent follow up appointments and endoscopies in the healing phase was discretionary.
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This wide discretion of the chief constable to keep the peace was affirmed by the House of Lords.
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Is not your problem that the sentencing judge made mistakes which vitiated his decision and enabled the Court of Criminal Appeal to exercise its own discretion?
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Some pastors insist on secrecy in their distribution of discretionary account funds.
Christianity Today
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Deflationary and inflationary gaps can be closed by discretionary monetary and/or fiscal policy.
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Do you think you have sufficient discretionary powers?
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Taking all of the circumstances into account, I exercise my discretion and order the discharge of the Certificate.
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A prosecutor has considerable discretion as to what charges he prefers and the trial takes place on those charges.
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Indeed, this apophthegm he seldom repeated since his marriage, except in the company of a very few intimates, to whose secrecy and discretion he could trust.
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
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So, he's looking at a very small part of the budget, it's what we call discretionary domestic programs or the stuff they have to appropriate every year, and that's being held at least in his budget to about a one percent -- little less than one percent increase, but you get so few savings that it has virtually no impact on the deficit at all.
CNN Transcript Feb 8, 2004
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For will any of sound discretion approve of my being beaten as a boy, because, by playing at ball, I made less progress in studies which I was to learn, only that, as a man, I might play more unbeseemingly? and what else did he who beat me? who, if worsted in some trifling discussion with his fellow-tutor, was more embittered and jealous than I when beaten at ball by a play-fellow?
The First Book
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Many US field officers were candid to the point of indiscretion.
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There's no need for anyone to tell you what to do next - you're old enough to use your own discretion.
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The rent awarded by the court under s24A may be considerably tempered by judicial discretion.
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These "shall issue" laws eliminate the discretion of local law enforcement and licensing agencies to determine eligibility for permits to carry concealed handguns (commonly known as CCW, concealed carry weapon, permits).
Josh Sugarmann: Senate Set to Nationalize Concealed Handgun Laws That Have Killed 7 Cops, 44 Private Citizens
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Thus by the sixth year about half of all the block grant money would be distributed on a discretionary basis.
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He has to exercise a discretion, and he has to decide whether, in his view, it is in the public interest that the relator should be able to bring proceedings in the particular respect.
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Hairstyling, along with powerboating and People subscriptions, is one of the three largest categories of discretionary spending.
Saving Face
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It leaves less to the discretion of the court and has decided on a maximum sentence of just five years.
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It may well be doubted, on an impartial view, if the mutilation of the country's industrial system by such measures of isolation does not after all rather weaken the nation even for warlike ends; but then, the discretionary authorities in the dynastic States are always, and it may be presumed necessarily, hampered with obsolete theories handed down from that cameralistic age, when the little princes of the Fatherland were making dynastic history.
An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation
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The trades seemed premised on anxieties over tighter discretionary spending, driven by higher oil, Interactive Brokers equity options analyst Caitlin Duffy wrote in a client report.
Libya Worries Hit Options on U.S. Oil Fund
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M. Wastchenko possesses in an eminent degree what Swift calls the aldermanly, but never to be over estimated quality, Discretion; he was considered generally a very safe man.
Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844.
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Such a body may also be more consistent in applying discretionary funds for research and innovative practice.
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That’s a popular strategy for spending cuts: Both House Republicans and the administration are talking about long-term freezes on non-defense discretionary spending without giving specifics for where those cuts will be made in years two, three, four and five.
How Grover Norquist makes the case for tax increases
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An indiscretion or mistake committed by the press should be examined first as to whether it was free of malice or an intentional action, he said.
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The company used to give discretionary bonus payments.
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Visiting outside these times will be at the discretion of the senior midwife.
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It would also run against deeply ingrained habits of discretion.
BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
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It isn't pretty - but it isn't surprising, either, when such important decisions are left to the unguided and unreviewed discretion of government officials.
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This greater discretion was also evident in the establishment of the administrative and decisionmaking process.
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A mostly France-based team has secured discretionary time on the Spitzer Space Telescope to look for rings and moons around COROT 9 b during the transit.
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Republican critics said the legislation still doesn't go far enough because it exempts all discretionary spending, and applies only to nonroutine increases in entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare.
'Blue Dog' Democrats Hold
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Refunds for late cancellations will be at the discretion of the organisers.
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If these features are available, they should be easily configurable via a simple electronic control panel on vehicle dashboards, and the defaults should favor quiet and discretion.
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You are much like your relative, hash, only discretion is advised upon your company as to whether you are the distinctive quality of sweet pungant smelling buds, or crappy kiff or leaf.
More Little Things In Life
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In the face of any indiscretion, anger and resentment are always better than accommodation.
Christianity Today
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If he is so satisfied, he still is left with the task of deciding whether as a matter of discretion he should order disclosure.
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It will be entirely at the discretion of the government to decide whether or not to amend that law.
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The premise of divisibility of public prosecution establishment is the doctrine of prosecuting discretion, which allocates prosecutor red-pros discretionary.
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Mr Bush's indiscretion had become a vehicle for attacking the Democratic presidential nominee.
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In his cups, Partridge may have drivelled out a whole string of indiscretions, at a time when Susan was moving in and out of the kitchen about her business.
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Are you quite sure of your own discretion?
Daniel Deronda
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There may, for instance, be a foreign discretionary trust which wishes to acquire a lease in the United Kingdom.
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The sovereign is the agent for the purpose of directing the united strength for the common benefit; but the sovereign is an agent of unlimited discretion, and with authority that cannot be revoked.
Leviathan or Post-War Trends in Government and Business
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They can be discretionary in nature with the stockbroker managing the fund and choosing stocks on behalf of the client.
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Violation of this subsection is a misdemeanor punishable for a first conviction by a fine not to exceed $1,000.00, by imprisonment not to exceed 30 days, or by both and punishable for a second or subsequent conviction by a fine left to the discretion of the court.
The other day I was trout fishing in NC when a guy comes out of his house walks down to me and starts trying to drive me off the
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He refused to be dragged into unnecessary political controversy and instead reposed his trust in the discretion of his voters who all are celebrated writers drawn from 22 languages of India.
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Don't worry - discretion is my middle name.
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In case of divorce, it's common to draw up a contract in advance, so why not in case of sexual indiscretion?
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Whether managers fully exploit the pocket of discretion thus created depends on the intensity of their own commitment to profit maximisation.
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Are you quite sure of your own discretion?
Daniel Deronda
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He had committed a minor sexual indiscretion.
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The SCOTUS has discretionary power to take a case so a denial of certiorari is an implicit affirmation of the lower court rulings.
Think Progress » Tea Party sign threatens gun violence if health care passes.
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Other experts are concerned that the granting of such discretionary powers would foster corruption.
Times, Sunday Times
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I guess I get it: We must hold the General to a much higher standard of conduct, discretion, valor, service, and duty than his rotten, lying C-in-C.
Loose lips: the McChrystal article
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On the other hand, where there is no intelligible standard and where the legislature has given a plenary discretion to do whatever seems best in a wide set of circumstances, there is no ‘limit prescribed by law’.
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Copied, damaged or defaced coupons will not be accepted at the retailer's discretion.
The Sun
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In all fairness you should have the sentence for committing the crime which should be standard, but giving the judge discretion to reduce, and then extra for aggraviting factors. fdm
Could Someone Please Explain This To Me ?
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To receive and undertake, at its discretion, proposals to switch stock from marketmakers. 3.
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A bloody battle was now certain to take place, and mynheer, combining discretion with valor, took in his light sails, and got his ship into a condition to be easily handled ..
Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale
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Since many retirees live on a fixed income, it's also important to create a budget to help decrease discretionary spending.
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That will cover all discretionary or accumulation trust income over 1,000 a year.
Times, Sunday Times
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Grabantak's skull when he mentioned his sanguinary intentions, but recalling Alf's oft-quoted words, "Discretion is the better part of valour," he restrained himself.
The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole
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Other experts are concerned that the granting of such discretionary powers would foster corruption.
Times, Sunday Times
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The timing of all subsequent follow up appointments and endoscopies in the healing phase was discretionary.
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Budget: The project manager's perceived ability to authorize others'use of discretionary funds.
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But that is surely part of his regular duties rather than something that qualifies him for a discretionary bonus.
Times, Sunday Times
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This bronchodilator inhaler is used at the discretion of the student for acute symptoms of asthma.
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It is a single premium insurance bond with a discretionary trust behind it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whoever put them in that group probably hoped discretion and goodwill would make sense of an anomaly.
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So, we would submit that discretion should be exercised in our favour, for that reason.
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School governors have the discretion to allow parents to withdraw pupils in exceptional circumstances.
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She lived, meanwhile, wholly shut up from all company, consigned to penitence for her indiscretions, to grief for the fate of her sister, and to wasting regret of her own causelessly lost felicity.
Camilla
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Your overdraft was at the absolute discretion of the branch manager.
Times, Sunday Times
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Though the award is at his discretion, John Paul II will come to his decision aided by the advice of Archbishop Pablo Puente, the Vatican's papal nuncio - or diplomatic envoy - to the United Kingdom, who is based in London.
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As a raconteur and conversationalist, scattering indiscretions and gossip with gay abandon, he was the acme of unconventionality.
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The trial judge was entitled to exercise his discretion in dismissing the motion.
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Under a trust for sale the trustees obviously can sell, and they are given by statute a discretionary power to retain.
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How much to tell terminally ill patients is left to the discretion of the doctor.
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-- I imagine it is owing to my being deficient in what Sterne calls "that understrapping virtue of discretion.
The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
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This festival, like others, has fallen foul of cuts made to the council's discretionary services by the cabinet, of which I am a member.
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It was submitted that his decision in the claimant's case to extend the period of nine months to eighteen months was a matter of judgement which was within his discretion.
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Here there is ample space for the the judge to exercise discretion.
Times, Sunday Times
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The couple applied for a discretionary payment but were told that they had sufficient income to cover their costs.
Times, Sunday Times
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As pent-up Paul is forced to work with flaky, fun-loving Becky to cover up evidence of their supposed indiscretion, and avoid her violent cop ex-boyfriend, he realizes who his true love is.
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This is a much more precise and exacting standard than just suggesting that a person or body in whom a discretionary power is vested must exercise that power reasonably.
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They say it would be within the secretary of state's discretion to ignore those ballot; one, because the hand recounts would have been conducted in a tardy fashion; and two, because the hand recounts will have been conducted in a tardy fashion and, two, because they would have been conducted in what they term a flawed fashion.
CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Palm Beach County Canvassing Board Meets to Consider Manual Recount - November 14, 2000
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§ 284 "The court may increase the damages up to three times the amount found or assessed.", and because there is no principled reason for continuing to engraft a willfulness requirement onto section 284, I believe we should adhere to the plain meaning of the statute and leave the discretion to enhance damages in the capable hands of the district courts.
In Re Seagate - CAFC Clarifies Attorney-Client Waiver, and then Some . . .
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And even then, the content and boundaries of the offensive behaviour are matters of administrative discretion.
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You can also make a discretionary payment of salary in these circumstances to employees if you want to support them.
Times, Sunday Times
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This part puts forward the defects of discretionary non-prosecution from legislative and judicial aspects.
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They interloped their way in to the Sub Hollywood 'bling' set through the nightclubs-preying on personalities not known for intelligence, or discretion.
Lisa Derrick: Paris Hilton, Girl Detective?
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They can safely be left to the discretion of the judge.
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Yet he had been the model of indiscretion all around London for years.
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They can, however, apply for a discretionary award from their local education authority.
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The regulator would enforce these new rules, with some discretionary powers to agree waivers.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is no evidence to suggest that her exercise of her discretion to seek admission of the statement was based on insupportable grounds.
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Unsurprisingly consumers will lose confidence in insurance if equitable treatment is seen to be at the discretion of the insurer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whether he disturbed the sweet influences of the honey-moon by his intrusive presence, or permitted that nectareous satellite to fill her horns and wax and wane in peace before he sought to bring the bridegroom down to the things of earth, are questions which I must leave to the discretion of my readers to settle, each for himself or herself, according to their own notions of the proprieties of the case.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858
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Under a trust for sale the trustees obviously can sell, and they are given by statute a discretionary power to retain.
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The first was due process in procedure, and the general limitation of official discretion within the criminal justice system.
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The judge may not have the discretion under the federal sentencing guidelines to impose a probationary sentence.
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The judge's discretion was therefore vitiated because the merits of any defence were considerably greater than he had been led to believe.
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A warm genial spirit; a glowing fancy, and a friendly heart; every faculty but diligence, and every virtue but 'the understrapping virtue of discretion:' such is frequently the constitution of the poet; the natural result of it also has frequently been pointed out, and sufficiently bewailed.
The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
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Today reserves the right to substitute the concert and recording session or elements thereof with a prize of equal or greater value at their sole discretion.
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It is no ground for the exercise of discretion to exclude that the evidence was obtained as a result of the activities of an agent provocateur.
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The company finished fourth but the remuneration committee decided to exercise discretion and allow some of the award.
Times, Sunday Times
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The way in which the expression - the manner, is put, ‘judgment becomes voidable and may be set aside’, would convey, in our submission, an element of discretion as distinct from a matter of right.
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Tholouse, whom Montoni had mentioned with more eclat to his own vanity than credit to their discretion, or regard to truth, she determined to give concerts, though she had neither ear nor taste for music; conversazioni, though she had no talents for conversation; and to outvie, if possible, in the gaieties of her parties and the magnificence of her liveries, all the noblesse of
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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Presuming to criticize a dragonrider is the most dangerous offense against discretion.
Dragon Drums
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In the place yourself chose to mention as the foundation you laid of the inferences you are now making, our Saviour says it is a being “born of the Spirit;” doth the Scripture make this appropriable only unto men of discretion?
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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Success at politics seldom depends entirely upon good intentions and is often torpedoed with a single strike by matters as trivial as boyhood pranks or otherwise pardonable youthful indiscretions.
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Whatever limitations exist on that authority regarding how captured terrorists are deta ined and tried, the Supreme Court has never suggested that decisions on actual combat operations particularly when and how to attack the enemy are anything other than discretionary for the president.
Awlaki vs. Predator
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It would mean cutting discretionary domestic programs by one-third, but Dole does not specify how he would do this.
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There are no indiscretions; what matters are the personal insights and her recollections.
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Moderators may request, in borderline cases, and otherwise at their discretion to see student's marked coursework assignments.
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Surely an anniversary is not a matter of discretion, but determined by the stipulated period of time elapsing in its usual and inalterable course?
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Moreover, there was no basis for him to exercise discretion to allow the statutory declarations to stand in place of the counterstatements in the proceedings.
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As an investigative hack, Parlabane was a ninth-dan blackbelt in the art of earwigging, but he had soon learned there was little need to be surreptitious about it in a place where nobody would ever describe discretion as the better part of valour.
Boiling a Frog
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But it is hard to see much headway for anyone reliant on discretionary consumer spending.
Times, Sunday Times
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In so doing, it is argued, he was properly exercising his discretion under subsection 4.
