He and his wife often had the Princess to lunch, and became confidantes whose discretion she trusted.
There is nothing new about politicians trying out their ideas and tactics on friends whose loyalty is first and foremost to them, and whose discretion is a given.
The Senator was feeling a bit wobbly himself, and, finally, he made an appointment with his home-town family doctor, a fellow-Texan whose discretion he could trust.
By contrast, Marianne's older sister, Elinor, is the guiding light of "sense," or prudence and discretion, whose constancy toward her lover, Edward Ferrars, is rewarded by her marriage to him after some distressing vicissitudes.
But unlike some more recent Italian prime ministers he was the model of discretion, whose private foibles had no bearing on his public duties.
Darbahani, whose trade demands discretion, wouldn't cough up details on that broken romance, and anyway, the buzz these days is who will wear what and who will roll home -- in one of his cars, hopefully -- with a gold statuette.
Mr. Forti, whose clients prize his discretion almost as much as his expertise, declined to be interviewed for this article.
Mr. Anzalone seems to have learned from his customers at Goldman, whose business principles demand discretion in its dealings with clients.
Allam added he would also go away within 24 hours if the name change is rejected by the FA, whose council has absolute discretion to decide.
Mickey Sabbath, the turbulent, profane, and libidinous hero, is a man who is beyond discretion and taste, whose outrageous adulterous behavior is, Roth said, "his response to a place where nothing keeps its promise and everything is perishable".
"Transicion" is the word used by the government to cover the tensions of preparing for the country's first free elections since the 1930's: elections to be held at the discretion of rulers whose power is still for all practical purposes absolute.
