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Sentence Examples
High domestic savings encouraged financial institutions to lend beyond the limits of prudence.
They must also possess deep political prudence, founded on an appreciation of ancient history as well as modern affairs.
What we have here as a problem is a lack of prudence in approving a loan proposal.
So teachableness is necessary and teachableness and docility are both included in prudence.
Fiscal prudence from politicians might sound like an electioneering mantra to some, but its a badge of honour to me.
The common proverbial maxims of prudence, being founded in universal experience, are perhaps the best general rules which can be given about it.
But however many millions it may cost to support the monarchy in all its pomp, the Queen sets a shining example of thrift and prudence.
You, as an organisation pride yourself on teaching your members the values of thrift and prudence.
Had their share of business activity been greater, their increase in thriftiness and prudence might have deepened or prolonged the recession.
As in all things in medicine, medical diagnosis requires prudence, and more than a modicum of common sense.
The earlier signals which hinted at the emergence of fiscal prudence, quickly faded out.
A new cautionary diction, an uncustomary prudence inflected our way of talking to one another.
Not for Thompson a slavish adherence to prudence, that is considered imperative in a contracting football market.
So how do we find, in this first written record, the prudence that spared until a later date so many lives?
A return to the traditional conservative values of non-intervention and prudence is called for.
Judgements of national interest require prudence, and some concern for the likely trend of future events.
But while a swagger of smug certainty plays well on television, prudence might argue for an open mind and the occasional flicker of doubt.
And so to see a club like York City, once a byword for financial prudence and parsimony, to be staring over the abyss is a mortal blow.
These are mind-boggling questions for a person of normal prudence because in science, colour is simply light of different wavelength.
Controlling both expenditures and revenues is fiscal prudence, something you promised.
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Nostalgia is not a forbidden fruit but astute statesmen never allow prudence to succumb to it.
When he acts with prudence, he must see to it that his prudence is not mistaken for cowardice or sloth.
Your prudence is rare and does you credit, but you may be taking things a tad too far.
For a government that prides itself on pragmatism and prudence, this is a policy that astonishes in its fecklessness and recklessness.
Auditing was increasingly professionalized and founded on concepts of prudence.
Common prudence dictates that we do what we can to cool the planet, even in the absence of absolute proof.
The Republican party built on fiscal prudence and a sense of responsibility.
Our country can do better, particularly in the area of prudence and focussed resource utilisation.
The financial prudence now practised by both clubs is a product of the economic climate.
If you don't obey the higher law of prudence by watching your step on an icy day, you will be compelled to obey the lower law of gravity.
Travelers to such destinations practice extra alertness, precaution and prudence.
It is one where an occupier, faced with a hazard accidentally arising on his land, fails to act with reasonable prudence so as to remove the hazard.
Yet, sadly, neither talent nor ambition cultivates prudence, wisdom, love, or magnanimity.
After the prize-giving, the festivities begin again and the dancing goes on well into the next morning until hangovers, prudence and normal life kick in.
He also believed, as a matter of political prudence, that the commercials had to be defensible on matters of fact.
With a bit of prudence we should be able to avoid the worst of times.
Saints must have lived an exemplary life, displaying the virtues of prudence, temperance, fortitude and justice, as well as showing faith, hope and charity.
Profit may be possible with continued success, particularly in Europe, but what Romanov proposes demands a reverse of the prudence that has taken Hearts this far.
Men and women in these areas had little cause to delay marriage, and prudence had little appeal when there was no chance of ultimate independence.
As much experience is prudence, so is much science sapience.
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At most it counsels caution, prudence and a little more scepticism.
We recognize that wise statesmen resist the temptation to use power promiscuously, and we stress the virtues of prudence, and self-restraint, in foreign policy.
He is most consistent, sure-footed and passionate in his celebration of prudence, practical reasoning, and good old-fashioned English probabilism and empiricism.
It is highly unlikely that there is some hard break in prudence between those who submitted the form and those who did not.
The sable signifies prudence and constancy in adversity, the azure denotes activity and the seas.
As Shakespeare so richly shows, this perfective prudence, in harmonizing passion and reason, fuses effective strategy with virtue.
Inclined to lawyerly prudence, yet not without Wilsonian idealism, he was determined to reverse that.
Your poets, spendthrifts, and other fools of that kidney, pretend, forsooth, to crack their jokes on prudence.
As archbishop, Anselm maintained his monastic ideals, including stewardship, prudence, and proper instruction, prayer and contemplation.
He came to realise that when it came to sacrificing human lives, one was to think and act with extreme prudence.
Further, the wisdom and prudence of certain decisions of procurement have been publicly questioned.
The virtues of temperance, frugality, prudence and integrity promoted by religious Nonconformity.
He had much prudence, much conscientiousness, and there were occasions when these virtues were the cause of overmuch disquietude in him.
The primary duties owed include the duty of loyalty, the duty of prudence, the duty of impartiality.
There is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution, but of fear.
Even as courage whetted on and enraged, makes a Man ventersome beyond the due bounds of prudence, or safety.
He thus showed his prudence, but he had some reputation as a soldier in Normandy and Scandinavia.
Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, and Napoleon had courage enough for an army but couldn't have filled a thimble with their justice, prudence, or compassion.
Etzioni's caution is one of prudence in aim, for third-party overambition in objectives can only doom to failure the inherently complex undertaking of counterinsurgency.
Examples from Classical Literature
Who ever had the safer road to fortune if he could have walked with the commonest prudence?
The contaminator is sure to be seized and confined till prudence, if not virtue, ties his tongue.
The thought of the insurrection in Illyria counseled prudence to the most violent.
I have already transgressed the limits of mere prudence in the avowal I have made you.
Eve knew that the offender had been there too, but she had too much prudence to betray him.
That they be done in prudence, and not with folly, rashness, or inconsiderateness.
True morality is hostile to that prudence only, which is preclusive of true morality.
This is a sort of economy having all the appearances and some of the advantages of prudence.
The prudence which teaches one man to be a Whig, will make of another a Utopian.
It was a requirement of prudence and safety which commends itself to every logician and legist.
There was a sort of brutal temerity in his prudence, the temerity of a man with big fists.
Other considerations occurring to his prudence had kept him tongue-tied from day to day.
They are men of prudence, and persuade E. to go with them, as a makeweight.
And your skull will be so top-heavy with prudence, that it will be difficult for you to keep on your feet.
As a matter of prudence, he had rented a safety-deposit box at the Crdit Lyonnais in which to keep it.
He decided that prudence required him to take the latter course, and left Thilutha unassailed.
At twenty-four he had the sagacity, the prudence, the reserve of a man of fifty.
The change of seasons, and an annual period of dormancy, demand forethought and prudence.
But at this Abe's prudence deserted him, and righteous wrath rose to the ascendent.
From prudence, natural inclination, and engrossment in other pursuits, Parmentier took no part in the political storm then raging.
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Our Yankee trade is reputed to be very much on the extreme of this prudence.
But the farmer's son was not totally without prudence, and he took good care to keep at a safe distance from the fairy ring.
Should you not have said that he was remarkable for his prudence rather than thoughtless or foolhardy?
The execution of this grand design was a master-work of foresight and prudence.
He turned round to look for the gaberlunzie, that he might commune with him on the prudence of letting the king's men free.
But what is person, clary, with one of your prudence, and your heart disengaged?
Charles stood up, prudence and timidity washed away by a burning need to make up for his embarrassment with a grandstand play.
The only bit of prudence he showed was to put the pomatum pot into a stocking.
But prudence does not pertain to the appetitive powers but rather to the cognoscitive.
Your peers will probably be of the opinion that you display a commendable prudence.
The youth fell, and the yager dropped also, but this time to shield him and out of prudence.
The spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy.
He was a man of prudence and deliberation, and of unswerving decision.
Men of prudence and discretion, Courtiers gay and gallant knights, With the wanton damsels dally, But the modest take to wife.
But by marriages of prudence we mean those in which both parties have sown their wild oats already.
But out of that chaos your belief in your own prudence and sagacity reasserts itself.
Mere prudence would have counselled the despatch of such information.
The embassador had the prudence to attempt to evade the inquiry.
Belinda's prudence seemed to increase with the necessity for its exertion.
Tiare, when I told her this story, praised my prudence, and for a few minutes we worked in silence, for we were shelling peas.
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Regrettably, the time has come when prudence not merely tactfully suggests Madame Alonso's retirement, but forcefully demands it.
You say, both honour and prudence forbid you to shew it to me.
This sociability seemed a necessary part of professional prudence, and the entertainment must be suitable.
The division between prudence and cowardice is often ill-defined.
Still, she knew that prudence was a virtue, and that Julia had thrown away money that might have been much better employed.
He was highly esteemed for his prudence, energy, and incorruptibility.
The clearest marks of this prudence are stamped on the proposed Constitution.
It was an obsession so complete that there was no room in his soul for prudence or gratitude.
Not being entirely bereft of prudence, he had discarded boots and stockings and borrowed Tommy Cotton's overalls.
Should it be ever so unhappily, will it be prudence to complain or appeal?
This is my first manly prudence, that I allow myself to be deceived, so as not to be on my guard against deceivers.
The action of the soul is to reduce fear to simple prudence.
Whence it would seem that prudence does not pertain to the active life.
It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer.
Though we are not in danger, common prudence would teach us to journey through this wilderness in as quiet a manner as possible.
However, in this country of barbarians and fanatics, prudence obliged him to take the strictest precautions.
He was worked up to forget the fiendish prudence he boasted of, and proceeded to murderous violence.
The captain said we ought to shorten sail anyway, out of common prudence.
The prudence which secures an outward well-being is not to be studied by one set of men, whilst heroism and holiness are studied by another, but they are reconcilable.
With this act of prudence closes the first night of our tale.
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His natural prudence, however, never forsook him for a single instant.
Every voter was in complete cognisance of what he or she wanted for their country and approached their choice of candidates with prudence and progressiveness.
In such circumstances, common prudence dictated that Heyward and his companions should imitate a caution that proceeded from so intelligent a source.
Cold, light, and selfish in the last resort, he had that modicum of prudence, miscalled morality, which keeps a man from inconvenient drunkenness or punishable theft.
I therefore, though with great prudence, commenced early to ascertain their views and feelings in regard to their condition, and to imbue their minds with thoughts of freedom.
Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.
