Still, the administration and advocates argue that with limited funding, this type of prosecutorial discretion is necessary.
The Energy Department noted in a statement that money for this type of project was provided as a tax credit, giving the agency little discretion.
He likes that Piet showed this kind of discretion, that he was so reserved.
Certain types of governmental discretion, exercised using prerogative powers, were regarded as beyond the scope of judicial scrutiny because they involved issues of substantive policy.
Despite this utter lack of discretion, it took several weeks to lock someone down.
By accepting this case, the Supreme Court isn't buying Obama's argument that this is an exercise of discretion and not an abuse of discretion.
In its finding, the BBC Trust's editorial standards committee "agreed that it is a question of editorial discretion as to whether a slot of this type should be featured in BBC programming".
This is a specific type of simple ultra vires and the discretion involved can be described as being in the "precedent fact category".
"In addition, there is pending litigation on this case that adds an additional layer of discretion".
This hands prosecutors a lot of discretion.
