The phrase "take discretion" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to use judgment or exercise caution in making decisions. Example: "I trust you to take discretion when handling the sensitive information."
Velleman explains in the example when a person utters, "I am going for a walk" that "An interesting feature of this arrangement is that I do not take discretion over your behavior, nor you over mine; rather, you give me conditional discretion over your behavior, and vice versa" (48).
Critics of the bills, including women's rights groups and some legal associations, say that stricter laws will roll back important protections against abusive or controlling former spouses and take discretion away from judges who are tasked with deciding what is in the best interest of children.
Julie Stewart, president of Washington-based Families Against Mandatory Minimums, said the Grassley approach was shortsighted and would continue to take discretion out of the hands of judges.
The war on drugs, mandatory sentencing laws that take discretion away from judges, "three-strikes" laws that lock up people for decades for minor crimes, and life without parole laws that condemn teenagers to living their entire adult lives behind bars have created a permanent underclass of poor, formerly incarcerated people, most of whom are black and Latino.
They impose mandatory prison sentences, taking discretion away from judges.
At Le Montrose Suite Hotel in West Hollywood, the general manager, John Douponce, takes discretion seriously.
"This is taking discretion away from the U.S. attorneys' offices," he said.
The history: Created by Congress beginning in the 1980s, the mandatory penalties took discretion away from judges and fueled the major increase in the U.S. prison population.
We ended the Rockefeller-era drug sentencing rules that took discretion away from our judges and filled our prisons with nonviolent offenders, and we closed 24 prisons and juvenile detention centers, eliminating prison beds and reducing by more than 5,000 the number of men and women behind bars.
A broader criticism made by prosecutors in his own office was that, in making choices about what cases to pursue, Vance was too enamored of the publicity that they might generate, and that he too often took discretion away from his prosecutors.
He invented the eponymous "Taylor rule" for taking discretion out of setting interest rates.
