Do you agree that under 102.112 that the secretary has some discretion, that would be your position that -- MR. KLOCK.
How much discretion — that is to say, arbitrariness — is involved in the application of the death penalty?
"It is beyond my comprehension that RBS could have then exercised a discretion that very substantially increased the cost of funding Sir Fred Goodwin's pension," he said.
A source in Lisbon has insisted the investigation was proceeding steadily "but with the discretion that has characterised it from the beginning".
By Amy Davidson Sorkin September 16, 2011 How much discretion — that is to say, arbitrariness — is involved in the application of the death penalty?
They pay whatever is asked," said a dealer friend who, with a discretion that used to be common in the art dodge, requested anonymity.
The discipline required of a first-rate ensemble, vocal or instrumental, translates into the kind of musical discretion that comes only from intense on-the-spot listening.
"If made permanent," Glenn Lowry, the director of MoMA wrote on Sept. 9, "this rule would remove from Regents-governed institutions the curatorial discretion that has made them among the most respected in the world".
The judge characterized that expansive use of the so-called state-secrets privilege as amounting to "unfettered executive-branch discretion" that had "obvious potential for governmental abuse and overreaching".
They were maintaining the discretion that is traditional in their business but has become increasingly quaint as fairs expose their persons and their pricing, unshielded by cagey assistants and velvet ropes.
Justice Harry A. Blackmun conceded in 1987 that "there perhaps is an inherent tension between the discretion accorded capital sentencing juries and the guidance for use of that discretion that is constitutionally required".
