Sentence examples for public discretion from inspiring English sources

But if upholding that principle was the administration's concern, Ms. Rice was obliged in return to show public discretion.

A few days before the referendum, Gikas Hardouvelis, a senior Greek economist who was Varoufakis's predecessor as minister of finance, sat at a café in a northern suburb of Athens, speaking with the tight-mouthed fury of someone who can no longer maintain his public discretion.

Nestling in a lakeside village in Switzerland's low-tax canton of Zug, Glencore's starkly modern headquarters reflect a culture where trading aggression is coupled with public discretion.

Most women in the U.S. found it necessary to marry, to a "front" such as a gay man where both could pursue homosexual relationships with public discretion, or to a man who expected a traditional wife.

Founded in 1974 by trading sensation and later U.S. fugitive Marc Rich, Glencore has until now held on to a fiercely prized tradition of public discretion, but its May listing will propel the group and its top management it into the limelight.

One of the strengths of British law is that it allows the police and public prosecutors discretion as to when to apply it.

Their installation in public spaces requires discretion.

For example, senior and middle level public servants have discretion in the way they implement policies, in their allocations of priorities and resources, and in the methods and criteria of evaluation of programs.

Such interference with the public authority's discretion would be overstepping their role and exceeding their proper constitutional function.

Public authorities given discretion under statute to make certain decisions often adopt non-statutory policies to guide them in their exercise of such discretionary powers.

According to Sunni schools of law, secondary sources of Islamic law are consensus, the exact nature of which bears no consensus itself; analogical reason; pure reason; seeking the public interest; juristic discretion; the rulings of the first generation of Muslims; and local customs.