Sentence examples for applying discretion from inspiring English sources

Documents filed by the administration with a Texas federal court on Monday claim that its ruling last week risks creating chaos in the immigration and customs services by preventing officials applying discretion when handling deportation cases.

He added: "The objective is to maintain the improved standards of riding which have resulted from the significant efforts made by riders to abide by the reduction in the threshold levels … while applying discretion where it is warranted".

Legislatures should go further and require judges to start with alimony formulas, and then apply discretion.

Vonn says under Canada's privacy laws, police would need to apply discretion to one of a few exemptions to justify the disclosure, but it's not clear which exemption they're using in this case.

The requestor shall apply discretion when using the Information made available by UNICEF.

We note that the significance threshold (P < 8×10−5) applied in the original publication was less stringent, and the reader should apply discretion in evaluating such borderline candidates.

General practitioners applied discretion to prevent contact with patients considered inappropriate for contact or inclusion, for example individuals known to be in a terminal stage of illness or experiencing acute and severe mental illness.

Recent illegal crossers are also excluded from an Obama administration policy applying prosecutorial discretion to spare illegal immigrants from deportation if they have not been convicted of crimes.

Individuals should be able to assess readily – ideally, through a simple online tool – whether personal information that they notify to a data controller will be dealt with in an automated fashion or by applying human discretion.

Thus, clinicians must use discretion when applying the conclusions derived from both these techniques to the individual patient.

A minimum murder sentence in South Africa is 15 years, but judges can apply some discretion.