Crimes differ from extra-legal wrongs in that they are defined as wrongs by the law: they are not, or not just, wrongs in terms of some extra-legal social standard of morality, prudence, or etiquette, but wrongs that are defined and recognised as such by the law.
Studies from continental Europe suggest that the extra interest-rate cost rises with indebtedness.The budget balance, which indicates the prudence of fiscal policy from year to year, also helps in determining a government's vulnerability.
Taxes will therefore have to go up again, though not until after next year's election.If the extra money had been well spent, Mr Brown could be forgiven for abandoning prudence.
Prudence with medication is advised and the intensive care staff must pay extra attention to the more severely ill patients.
Rational prudence, we think, does not dictate that Crusoe be conservative in his choices by giving extra weight to the outcome in which he suffers low lifetime well-being.
Prudence is his watchword.
But then prudence intervened.
Prudence is the watchword.
Curatorial prudence, people!
They praise his prudence.
