Sentences with phrase «so much discretion»

In many traffic offenses, the officer must make a subjective judgment, which is why police officers have so much discretion on whether to write a ticket or not.

A large part of the reason for this «randomness» is that South Carolina family law invests so much discretion in family court judges.

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And what counts as legal can not always just be looked up, in part because so much depends on prosecutorial discretion.

Plus, with individuals working in different departments, there are more levels of discretion that can be controlled, since you'll likely not share the same office friends and won't see each other so much throughout the day.

The prosecutorial discretion power is so strong that it has actually become much more effective in forcing leadership change than a general election where political opponents seek to unseat them at the ballot box.

For example, districts have provided money, but they have kept so much control over its use that individual schools have very little budgetary discretion.

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Were the dog to ever be in a position it felt forced to bite, the dog is much more likely to do so with discretion and not cause any serious damage.

After warning of the dangers of adding too much authority to the wide costs discretion, he said: «The vital point in exercising the discretion to order costs is to look at the whole picture of what happened in the case and to ask whether there has been unreasonable conduct by the claimant in bringing and conducting the case and, in doing so, to identify the conduct, what was unreasonable about it and what effects it had.

Some experts feel that this so - called «discretion» needs to be defined much more clearly since, as it is being reported in many cases, this privilege may have been exploited or abused at times, at the expense of MAs, who might be left to face the consequences for being asked to do things that they were, quite frankly, never supposed to be doing.

A court's custody decision always comes down to what's in the best interests of the children, so if a parent has a history of drinking too much, judges usually have discretion to consider this.