Sentence examples for exercised discretion from inspiring English sources

Librarians have "from time immemorial" exercised discretion in deciding what to make available to readers, he added.

In Shenzhen, a metropolis north of Hong Kong, Ms. Fischer and Mr. Braschler exercised discretion when they came across a beggar with a one-legged monkey (Slide 17).

The answer arrived weeks later: The letter carrier had exercised discretion in not delivering to the block because the sidewalks hadn't been cleared of snow and ice.

Thorpe said Bennett had consulted the parties over publication of his judgment, had given them the opportunity to put forward their arguments and had exercised discretion.

The changes have unsettled a decades-long accommodation between national security and press freedom, one in which the government did what it could to protect its secrets but exercised discretion in resorting to subpoenas and criminal charges when it failed.

Obama did so by attempting to codify what was already informal practice: the administration had already exercised discretion by essentially focusing its deportation efforts on convicted felons and undocumented immigrants without citizen children.

Sir Peter Job, chairman of Shell's remuneration committee, said he had exercised "discretion" to award the shares to the five executives, including outgoing chief executive Jeroen van der Veer.

She would have been eligible for £343,000 under the terms of the bonus plan but "in the context of the cyber-attack on TalkTalk and after careful consideration, the remuneration committee has exercised discretion and determined that the annual bonus should be at a reduced level", the company said.