The health minister a year ago called for a public debate about reshaping the NHS around the principles he'd described as "prudent medicine" or "prudent healthcare".
At a news conference on Wednesday, General Petraeus reiterated that he was unwilling to commit to troop cuts beyond a five-brigade reduction by mid-July, a level he described as prudent.
The complaint against utilitarianism is that it takes this principle, commonly described as prudent for individuals, and uses it on an entity, society, unlike individuals in important ways.
Gheorghe Ialomitianu, the finance minister, describes as "prudent" a 2012 budget that is working its way through parliament.
"There is no specific threat and all we are doing is having in place what we would describe as prudent and appropriate measures in place, in order that we could react if required in a timely and appropriate fashion".
Last night they might even have been described as … prudent.
WEST BERKSHIRE, England — Lady Carnarvon, a self-described "prudent Scottish accountant," doesn't mind buses coughing and screeching onto the gravel driveway of her country estate and depositing 1,500 fans each day at her doorstep.
Others are listed as priorities for the following 10 years, with the approach described as ambitious but prudent.
Our Vegetable/fruit pattern was very similar to the Prudent pattern described in other research and correlated with high fiber intake [ 12, 33, 37, 43].
Mr Robertson described the current estimate as "prudent".
Josh Gordon, a professor at Vancouver's Simon Fraser University, described the government measures as prudent.
