Sentence examples for discretion either from inspiring English sources

Whether a news outlet now describes Mr. Santorum as having won Iowa, or instead says that it was too close to call, is a matter of editorial discretion; either choice is probably defensible.

She took the position JUSTICE STEVENS -- She has the total discretion either to accept or reject.

Either way JUSTICE STEVENS -- Does that mean if there were an act of God that prevented the returns from being filed, that she would have discretion either to accept or reject the returns?

It was agreed this money would, at BG&E's discretion, either be repaid or converted to a 20% shareholding in AWH – though the company's worth at that time could have been put at $50m.

Federal immigration law empowers the Secretary of Homeland Security to arrest and hold a deportable alien pending a removal decision, and generally gives the Secretary the discretion either to detain the alien or to release him on bond or parole.

The writ is not ordinarily granted when an alternative remedy is available, and it is never granted when the official to whom it would be directed has the legal discretion either to perform the act demanded or to abstain from doing so.

Fellowships and affiliations will remain unpaid and can be ended at any time at the discretion of either CIS or the fellow or affiliate.

The Commerce Department and the I.T.C. must use narrow criteria set by Congress that give little discretion to either agency except on the question of whether a domestic industry has suffered significant injury from imports.

Supervisors have the discretion to either grant release time from work to attend class, or to require that all or part of the time be made up if the absence interferes with the department's operational requirements.

This is all pretty early, and we need to speak to people who know this field much better than I do, but my sense is that we need to have a small group of universities who show a deep interest in working along these guidelines and will work over a limited time frame, whereby we still have that discretion to either continue or not with the program.

The decision of dropout is in the discretion of either treating physician or patient.