Sentence examples for a prudent distance from inspiring English sources

It is not just the state that keeps a prudent distance.

They preferred to defecate a prudent distance from the place where they ate and slept.

As I've noted here before, one of my children works for the chancellor nowadays, which complicates things: another reason to keep a prudent distance.

Without turning his back, he maintained a prudent distance when Wilde fell into disgrace and prison, and he went on to prosper in both literary and society circles.

The good player took on all comers and dispatched them, mercilessly, one by one.Most professionals learned to establish a prudent distance from that world.

That stiff-armed handshake, for instance, that maintains a prudent distance between shakers.Venezuelans, unless they actively dislike you (and sometimes, even if they do), use limbs to embrace and envelop rather than to ward off fellow humans.

The Austrian corps commanded by Latour drew too close to Moreau at Biberach and lost 4,000 men taken as prisoners, some standards and artillery, after which Latour followed at a more prudent distance.

From the beginning, Bush's prudent distance left the daily business of the peace process to diplomats in the field, far from the halls of power.

Thousands of other small boats looked on from more prudent distances.

In international policy, Zapatero proposes a prudent, non-acrid distancing from the United States, to approach the version of Europe personified by France and Germany.

Our trek kept a prudent 10- to 15-mile distance from the Albanian border.