discretion

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However, if the original house was owned by the trust, the sale proceeds would legally need to go back into the trust unless the trust document gives the trustee discretion to reinvest them elsewhere.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

Instead, guidelines on the way officers should exercise discretion have changed.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

She wrote a letter to Kennedy in November urging the FDA to use enforcement discretion for certain peptides that she said were “critical to processes” such as metabolism, immune response and tissue repair.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

The Welsh government said it was working to "review the current arrangements" for the School Milk Scheme, but governing bodies had the discretion to design school dinner menus including soya, rice or oat drinks.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

Secrecy in Karhide is to an extraordinary extent a matter of discretion, of an agreed, understood silence—an omission of questions, yet not an omission of answers.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin