Counterintuitively, officers who have to defend their professional discretion against accusations of racial bias are more likely to ticket and arrest those they stop.

"We are relying heavily upon your professional discretion as a fellow researcher to hold in strictest confidence whatever you may see or hear."

"No," the doctor said slowly, for he was beginning to recall his professional discretion.

The commission's decision is a model of professional discretion.

I assume now that I can talk within the bounds of professional discretion?

A Pfizer spokeswoman said that "physicians should be able to express their professional discretion in making individual treatment decisions."

As I see it, these measures complement the action against teachers' union power by curbing professional discretion and making teachers more accountable.

I would like to exercise that professional discretion, sir.

It is the idea of service which legitimates the exercise of professional discretion.

"This was not police brutality - it's about the criminalization of professional discretion, a decision made in seconds."