Synonym: circumspection, delicacy, discernment, discreetness, free will, prudence. Similar words: discrimination, discussion, description, prescription, distinction, distribution, interpretation, screw. Meaning: [dɪ'skreʃn] n. 1. freedom to act or judge on one's own 2. knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress 3. refined taste; tact 4. the power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies 5. the trait of judging wisely and objectively.
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121. This passage is somewhat unsatisfactory in its lack of certainty and in the wide discretion it appears to leave to the courts.
122. Payment for religious holiday leaves is within the discretion of the local school district.
123. Tax-exempt financing provided the local government development official with a great deal of discretion.
124. Many feminists were also interested in birth control as an issue although discretion dictated a public silence.
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125. The ambit of this discretion will now be reviewed in more detail.
126. The words of the Insolvency Act 1986 do not fetter the court's discretion in any way.
127. It is felt that it leaves the police too great a discretion as to what type of conduct is unacceptable.
128. The question has arisen whether a refusal on general grounds constitutes a valid exercise of discretion.
129. Dalgliesh knew that no politician would have talked with such freedom unless he had had absolute confidence in his listener's discretion.
130. The court said that the decision whether to close the schools was within the area of discretion left to the authority.
131. The judgments in notorious cases which had decided that there could be unfettered administrative discretion were repudiated.
132. How far judicial discretion on sentencing should be directed by Government policy is problematic.
133. I believe that on the evidence before her she came to a conclusion which was well within her discretion.
134. Parliamentary influence over these appointments is minimal, the matter being almost entirely one of ministerial discretion.
135. The Council of the Research Defence Society reserves absolute discretion as to who shall be elected to membership.
136. For example, the social worker exercises discretion in individual case work.
137. The governors will often give the chairman discretion to act on their behalf.
138. The USDA regulation allows for enforcement discretion.
139. I allow students to come and go at discretion.
140. You must choose you friends with discretion.
141. But, the Court continued, this discretion is not unbounded.
142. After their discretion, it is possible to obtain the expression and analytical approximation for the annual probability of exceedance.
143. Therefore, a scientific and rational non-prosecution discretion restriction system is the necessary conditions to guarantee the right performance of the discretion.
144. Supreme Court guidance as to the nature of abuse of discretion review has been sparse.
145. He resolved that his conduct should be worthy of an aspirant who a model of discretion.
146. Res judicata and collateral estoppel may also limit an agency's discretion.
147. Further fine print may give fund managers even more discretion.
148. I just ask at discretion , why do you bosh here A complaints.
149. Some of its employees, in their zeal to win the business of wealthy Americans with a predilection for fibbing to the taxman , seem to have confused discretion with spycraft.
150. The AUP may be changed from time to time at the discretion of the Company.
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