Sentence examples for with a discretion from inspiring English sources

They pay whatever is asked," said a dealer friend who, with a discretion that used to be common in the art dodge, requested anonymity.

December 28 , 1930Chicago, Illinois January 13 , 2010Copenhagen, Denmark Ed Thigpen Edmund Leonard Thigpenn), (born Dec. 28, 1930, Chicago, Ill. died Jan . 13 , 2010Copenhagen, Den)., American jazz musician who played drums with intense swing yet with a discretion and sensitivity that made him a favourite accompanist of singers and member of small groups.

The Secretary answered admitting his refusal, and asserting that under the statute he and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs were vested with a discretion to protect the interest of the minors, and that his refusal was in the exercise of that discretion.

"The tradition of the Holy See's authority is to deal with them with a discretion that can often be more efficient than other, possibly more visible but less opportune ways".

In Associated Provincial Picture Houses v. Wednesbury Corporation (1947), Lord Greene, the Master of the Rolls, remarked that "a person entrusted with a discretion must, so to speak, direct himself properly in law.

In a case of uncertainty, I would find it easier to discern a legislative intention to confer a power of indefinite administrative detention if the power were coupled with a discretion... ...... Accordingly, he found that a proper construction of the provisions of the Act would not permit Al-Kateb's detention to continue indefinitely.

"I know of no safe depository for the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion" -- Thomas Jefferson 1820.

Jefferson wrote: "I know of no safe repository of the ultimate powers of our society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education".

One of his superiors praised him: "You have been a model of proper discipline and subordination, strictly attentive to duty, promptly obedient to orders, and acting with a wise discretion in all matters requiring the exercise of your individual judgment".

Glitz and glamour may be the allure, but class and understatement are still the rule, with a mum discretion among its famous guests that would not be out of place in Zurich's private banks.

As criminal prosecutions are instituted by the state through an officer selected for that purpose, he is vested with a certain discretion with respect to the cases he will call to their attention, the number and character of the witnesses, the form in which the indictment shall be drawn, and other details of the proceedings.