Sentence examples for extraordinary discretion from inspiring English sources

But judges cannot be allowed to use their extraordinary discretion to deny litigants the fundamentals of due process.

In return for an annual gift to the king of 40 beaver skins, the duke of York and his resident board of governors were given extraordinary discretion in the ruling of the colony.

Some time in the 1960s, though, they secretly commissioned Viennese composer Friedrich Cerha ("a person of extraordinary discretion and patience", according to Berg scholar George Perle) to produce a completed Lulu, to be unveiled after Helene Berg's death.

But incumbency also acts as a limitation, for sitting presidents must exercise extraordinary discretion when they extemporize upon international issues.

Considering the relatively limited scope of many of Obama's executive orders, that's an extraordinary bit of discretion.

In the words of Angela J Davis, a law professor at American University: "The unchecked discretion of prosecutors is extraordinary, and the mechanisms of accountability we have don't work".

The authors argue that it combines the main advantages of the pure regimes: like a rule, it makes surprise inflations difficult to engineer; like discretion, it allows for extraordinary measures.

"Such an extraordinary power needs to be exercised with discretion, because it could be constitutionally suspect".

The judges ruled that "it is manifest that the entry of a preliminary injunction in this copyright case was an abuse of discretion," adding that, "a preliminary injunction is an extraordinary and drastic remedy".

"The district court abused its discretion by barring retrial and by granting the extraordinary remedy of an unconditional writ," the two-to-one majority wrote.

In the two years to September 2012, 205,000 parents were deported.Judges do have the discretion to halt a deportation if it will cause extraordinary distress to the family.