Sentence examples for act of prudence from inspiring English sources

Let's just hope Rochdale can pull off the unlikely double act of prudence and promotion.

Those who look on the President's energy program as an exercise in virtuous sacrifice are mistaking an act of prudence for a moral action.

It takes a strange frame of mind to believe that demolishing a wooded encampment of homeless immigrant men and evicting them onto the streets during one of the coldest weeks of winter can be an act of prudence and compassion.

The question of whether closing the school is an act of fiscal prudence or discrimination has become an explosive subject in Biloxi, reopening age-old racial divides.

"Their original stance to stop funding pending an important congressional investigation was an act of courage and prudence, making their sudden reversal today appear hollow and weak".

Her decision to appear on camera was not an act of courage, but of prudence.

In primitive or simple societies, there may always be reasons of prudence to act justly with respect to the property of others: violations of justice are always likely to be detected by others and to lead to consequences one would prefer to avoid.

George H.W. Bush also believed that to be a conservative was to act with "prudence," one of his favorite words and a philosophy he demonstrated in foreign policy by deciding, once he defeated Saddam Hussein in Kuwait, not to follow him to Baghdad.

Is the E.C.B.'s policy debate a sign of weakness and dithering while its U.S. and British counterparts act decisively, or is it a sign of prudence?

Kant called "counsels of prudence" those which ask that one act so as to secure one's own happiness and "commands of morality" those which require that one act without any thought of gains for oneself.

We can trace the subprime mortgage crisis to President Carter's Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, which required lenders to override all considerations of prudence and fiscal rectitude in the pursuit of an impossible goal.