Louis was shrewd enough, or cautious enough, to realize that ultra policies would divide the country and might in the end destroy the dynasty.
So thought many Canadians: in December, polls gave the Liberals almost 50% against a fragmented opposition.Predictably enough, our cautious endorsement seems to have been a kiss of death for Liberal Canada.
As my mother said to me (more than once), "Do you think you are smarter than Einstein?" Yet just a decade after the first inklings, this is the standard picture, secure enough for cautious Swedish academicians to select for this year's prize.
But environmental groups are making just the opposite claim: that the agency is not being cautious enough.
Mr Cohen's report is so thorough and, on most issues, so unblinking, you wonder if his optimism is quite cautious enough.
And in failure, it proved to me if you're careful and cautious enough, you can climb safely and all come back friends to climb another day.
Perhaps aware of the injury epidemic sweeping through camp, he knew enough to be cautious when asked when he expected to face hitters again.
But like other Western observers, Mr. Fischer was cautious enough to note that the real test would come when the Putin program was put into practice.
The bank, IKB, was cautious enough to ask that Goldman hire an independent asset manager to assemble the deal and look out for its interests.
He was cautious enough to continue acknowledging Ottoman overlordship (even if only in name), and, by cultivating contacts with Britain, he hoped to balance each power against the other.
