Sentence examples for circumspect for from inspiring English sources

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The phrase 'circumspect for' is not correct and is not used in written English.
'Circumspect' is an adjective meaning to be cautious and careful, so it does not need to be followed by the preposition 'for.' You could use the phrase 'circumspectly' instead. Example: The police had to move forward cautiously and circumspectly.

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With Phil Mustard equally circumspect, for once, the Sussex pace trio of Steve Magoffin, Jimmy Anyon and Lewis Hatchett finally ran out of steam.

Having been eerily circumspect for so long, he slog-swept Murali's first delivery for six and then made room to blitz the next ball over extra-cover for four.

The health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has been fairly circumspect for the most part, but anonymous voices in Whitehall – the Department of Health is just across the street from No 10, past the Red Lion – have been muttering about a "political strike" and a "miners' moment" when militants must be seen off as Maggie did Arthur Scargill in 1984-85.

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Admiral Turner, who has endorsed the Democratic challenger, John Kerry, told the Associated Press: "This is the worst appointment that's ever been made to the office of director of central intelligence". Mr Kerry was more circumspect, calling for speedy and bipartisan confirmation hearings for Mr Goss.

He was fearless where others were circumspect, recording, for instance, the disdain of the new Black Power advocates for their white allies and the intimidated dismay it provoked: These Blacks moved through the New Left with a physical indifference to the bodies about them, as if ten Blacks could handle any hundred of these flaccid Whites….

In 2011, after enormous advocacy efforts by human rights groups and a number of countries including the United States, Canada and much of Europe, the push for this kind of legislation was replaced by a more circumspect call for the promotion of religious tolerance and dialogue.

China has been circumspect, hedging for the unknown, perhaps concerned about the risk of a trade war.

Her mother, Sasha Evans, was more circumspect, offering for Colibri's approval a string of neo-hippie beads Joss Stone might have coveted.

Jesse Jackson was among those who were less circumspect, calling for a Federal Communications Commission inquiry along the lines of the one after the Super Bowl in 2004.

Charting the yellow underlings' efforts down the ages to find a suitably tyrannical master, it begins a curiously circumspect rollout – for such dead-cert franchise bait – in Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.

Although Mr. O'Neill, while at Goldman, aggressively marketed his BRICs notion, Mr. Lord and his team at Morgan Stanley have been more circumspect, avoiding for the most part public statements in the news media.

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