Two thousand years later, America aims to select prisoners for parole by more rational criteria, such as "Are they likely to re-offend?"It turns out, however, that granting parole wisely is hard.
He wisely granted the central bank autonomy and secured robust but disciplined growth in the last few years.
His working partners are the bassist Larry Grenadier and the drummer Jeff Ballard, and Mr. Mehldau wisely grants them the full measure of his trust.
Designated rector regis et regni ("governor of the king and of the kingdom") for John's son, King Henry III, Pembroke defeated the English barons and French invaders and in September 1217 concluded a treaty with Louis that wisely granted amnesty to the rebellious barons.
After resisting several invasion attempts by Burmese kings, the Kachin were wisely granted regional autonomy by British colonialists.
Now, as we live into the freedoms that were wisely granted by our Constitution, we have a chance to not only witness a grand shift toward freedom but live it and to see it through.
"Although corporations can and do make important contributions to our society using advantages that the government has wisely granted them, the people of the city and county of San Francisco do not consider them natural persons," reads the text of the non-binding policy statement being introduced Tuesday by Supervisor John Avalos.
In the meantime, lets hope Nokia uses its billion-dollar "research grant" a little more wisely.
Whether the breathing space thus granted would be used wisely or squandered is another matter.
So that raises the question of whether developed economies have used the time granted by central banks wisely, or whether all that has happened is that asset markets have gone up and the rich have got richer.It may well be that the BIS is right, and that easy money makes politicians lazy.
