Many states have left decisions about second-parent adoptions to the courts.
The story of how the Fukushima plant ended up swamped with water, critics say, is a cautionary tale about the continued dangers of leaving decisions about nuclear safety to industry insiders.
While European regulations leave decisions about emergency fuel to the discretion of pilots, Mr. Goss told the program he had received a letter from Ryanair management criticizing him for regularly carrying too much fuel.
But HBOS had a risk department – meant to be on alert for bad lending decisions – that could not keep up with the pace of growth, and a management structure that left decisions about lending to division heads.
On the whole I think you should leave decisions about what to fund to the practising scientists rather than to civil servants or even senior figures like me who are getting rather past it".
(One of Mr. Romney's judicial advisers, the conservative Judge Robert Bork, has warned that a balanced-budget requirement would open the door "to hundreds, if not thousands of lawsuits around the country," leaving decisions about what to cut in the hands of unelected judges).
The three Americans told Mr. Karzai, the person said, that the United States was maintaining a neutral position in the elections, and that it would leave decisions about whether a runoff was needed to the Afghan elections commission and the electoral complaints commission.
The director seems to have devoted an impressive amount of work to historical research, the construction of the script, the casting, the location scouting, the physical staging of the action, the direction of actors, and even the selection of music — and seems to have left decisions about the use of the camera for last, and least.
This year, the phrase "binge watching" became increasingly common, largely because of Netflix's own practice of releasing original episodes of the shows "House of Cards" and "Arrested Development" en masse, leaving decisions about viewing up to the stamina and schedule of its subscribers.
