Examples of discretion

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Rental income and other personal property remained outside the separate estate and subject to disposal by the trustee at his discretion.
The court's decision, however, does not grant unlimited discretion to the parents.
Insecticides were applied at the farmers' discretion, typically two to six times per week in all trial and check plots.
A wealth of other factors can also be included at the researcher's discretion to strengthen the validity of the model's findings.
Constitutions, and the rule of law, therefore, greatly alleviate the jeopardy associated with unlimited discretion.
Considering the degree of operator discretion involved in both methods, these rather small differences suggest that the methods produce equivalent results.
He acknowledged that newspaper editors had come to exercise their discretion to decide what to publish ' less wisely ' than they had done previously.
Here discretion was the better part of valour.
Where judges accepted the comprehensiveness rationale, they were greatly increasing the discretion of local officials to determine where and how private rights could be exercised.
Rural agents had near total discretion in route selection and management.
Putting aside the question of how we characterize the outcome - is it "the law"/ "the truth," or an expression of discretion?
Thus, where supervision is lax, district leaders, including local bureaucrats, may use their budgetary discretion and the force at their disposal for personal gain.
In doing this, they exercise a good deal of discretion, since the choice between different worthwhile projects is typically morally underdetermined.
The care of women allocated to the routine primary care group was left to the discretion of their primary care teams.
Prior to 1872, states could hold elections at their discretion.
The regions had considerable discretion regarding details of the model of administered competition that they chose to adopt.
The amount of time invested was left to the students' discretion and was recorded.
Furthermore, the decentralization of power was increasingly not merely at the discretion of the central government; indeed, it became irreversible.
Local education authorities retain some discretion, although regulation does put a minimum figure on what local education authorities can allocate to schools.
Furthermore, there is substantial evidence that the media exercise discretion in what they cover and how they cover it.
Consider first the direct effect of discretion on compliance.
Infringements are more likely when states disagree with the content of directives and the directives provide them with little discretion.
Figure 3 depicts the level of discretion and the average incentive to deviate for the six directives with infringement proceedings and the eighteen directives without.
Delays tend to be longer on directives that grant high levels of discretion.
States with high incentives to deviate are less likely to have infringements if the directives grant them high levels of discretion.
Discretion is expected to affect compliance directly and in combination with member states' incentives to deviate.
Intriguingly, in cases with high levels of discretion there are higher incentives to deviate in the cases with infringements than in cases without infringements.
In other words, when directives grant more discretion to member states, politics at the national level play a more prominent role.
Nonetheless, in line with the third hypothesis, discretion is a key variable in gauging the impact of states' incentives to deviate.
The first is that explanations of discretion should be linked with explanations of compliance.
Regarding infringements, discretion ensures that incentives to deviate are not translated into infringements.
At the same time, however, it allowed a margin of discretion in implementation.
Such discretion was based on an ' external ' assessment of family relationships in line with expectations about the appropriate roles of parent and child.
After all, we need judges partly because we expect them to exercise discretion.
One further issue that came out strongly was the emotional pressures associated with such discretion.
Presently, the responsibility for application of guidelines remains with the clinicians, which are expected to exercise their clinical discretion.
However, the distinction between discretions and duties is not so clear in practice as it is in theory.
Other public services, notably the health service, have a comparable complexity even if they appear to have fewer levels of authority and discretions of autonomy.
He seems nevertheless to have come very close to substituting his view of the statutory power and the discretions within it for that of the minister.
The decision concerning how to supply these from the various monastic properties and incomes at his disposal was left entirely to the abbot's discretion.
Instead, the matter of attendance is left to the discretion of the governors with no restriction on their discretion.
The inevitably open texture of such a document leaves a great degree of discretion in the hands of the judiciary.
As we have seen, this is left to the discretion of the head teacher, acting on the guidance of the governors.
Why should this penalty be mandatory, and not at the discretion of the court as in other offences?
The response to the recognition of law's instrumental limitations, and to the growth of discretion, has been contradictory.
The latitude for administrative discretion in individual cases surely encouraged rather than checked official corruption.
The third meaning of the word" power" is" discretion".
On the other hand, remedial discretion should not be seen as a substitute for defining the grounds of judicial review more carefully and narrowly.
States also have discretion in designing sanction policies.
Every writer - student or professional is to his own discretion, and no two punctuate the same sentence or paragraph the same.
Nonetheless, those women who did understand the language could and should have reacted at their own discretion.
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