Sentence examples for Out of prudence from inspiring English sources

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The House speaker, J. Dennis Hastert, went a step further, announcing that the House, out of prudence, would close shop until Tuesday.

You would want to avoid many of these countries right now out of prudence, because they're in a state of civil war.

If we think that our words were reasonable and not meant to provoke, and we still censor ourselves, we are acting out of prudence or fear, and in a way treating the other as irrational.

Mr. Hastert said he was acting out of prudence, but one man's prudence in a situation like the present one can feed others' panic, and he was criticized pitilessly by his peers on the ground that he was setting a poor example.

And the people who understand are holding back — out of "prudence".

But why? Partly, it's because bureaucracy grows out of prudence, a desire not to repeat the mistakes of the past.

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An opulent and gimmick-filled production might have raised the attention span, but Antony McDonald's allusions to old cut-out and painted scenery speak more of prudence and economy.

The wolf was out; and then was tucked away in a heart-drawer of prudence.

Mr Primakov has just about managed, in principle at least, to prise yet another dollop of cash out of western fists, amid all the usual vacuous promises of prudence and probity.

"I'm sorely tempted to throw out three or four names, but it wouldn't be right," he said, showing a depressing level of prudence for someone who was spending the day trying to get cross-country by airplane.

Last Sunday, Mr. Vallone received an endorsement from The Daily News, which singled out the "fiscal prudence" of the "Giuliani-Vallone partnership;" The News's editorial page editor, Richard J. Schwartz, is a former senior aide to Mr. Giuliani.

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