Sentence examples for exercises discretion from inspiring English sources

The Home Office exercises discretion about who it decides can stay and who it forces to leave.

To determine whether an administrative employee is exempt from overtime, the Labor Department's proposal drops the longtime test of whether the worker customarily and regularly exercises discretion and independent judgment.

The agency usually exercises discretion on a case-by-case basis, using a family's individual circumstance, length of time in this country and ties to the community, Homeland Security officials said.

Thus, if an SMC parliamentary seat is vacated and the Prime Minister exercises discretion not to call a by-election in the SMC, the constituency's residents will not only lack a representative in Parliament but will also be without a Town Council chairman.

What is happening here is a further erosion of the concept of separation of powers, where the judicial branch is an independent branch of government; it is there to be an entity that exercises discretion to protect the rights of both parties.

When a department exercises discretion in allocating money appropriated to it, as Goodin writes, "it is the Health Minister's job to look after health, and spend her money however best promotes health; any spillovers to non health matters, be they positive or negative, are naturally neglected by her on the grounds 'that's not my department'".

Even insiders, however, exercise discretion.

There is evidence that many hospitals exercise discretion.

"If somebody tells you how to exercise discretion," he said, "you don't have discretion".

The bartenders exercise discretion in serving customers who they feel have had enough to drink.

Because of the action, "parents do need to exercise discretion," Mr. Eisenberg said.