While some officials praised the general's prudence, others complained that he was violating a basic tenet of the American military never to leave a fallen soldier in enemy hands.
While we have no reason to believe that this inference does not have general applicability, prudence dictates that it should be verified in each experimental situation where it is employed.
The usual debate ranges from those adherents of strict construction and original intent to those with loose construction and adaptation of text to modern-day conditions.762 However, it is with regard to more general rules of prudence and self-restraint that one usually finds the enunciation and application of limitations on the exercise of constitutional judicial review.
We, the freeholders of the town, have delegated you the power of acting in our public concerns, in general as your prudence shall direct you, reserving to ourselves the constitutional right of expressing our minds and giving you such instructions upon important subjects as at any time we may judge proper.
Thus moral reflection generates a universalized prudence.
Agreeing with the Sandy Hook families' legal theory "would imply that the general public lacks the ordinary prudence to handle an object that Congress regards as appropriate for sale to the general public.
"We ask for prudence from the general population who should maintain a distance of at least six kilometers in order to avoid tragedy".
But there are general characteristics we associate with moderation, including prudence, the humility to recognize limits (including our own), the willingness to balance competing principles and an aversion to fanaticism.
While the chancellor tries to steer a narrow course between largesse and fiscal prudence, he will have one eye on the next general election, due sometime in the next 18 months.
Or to translate, the Tories could promise tax cuts in the run-up to the 2015 general election and still claim to be prudent (in its view of prudence) - as per my note of earlier today.
IN general, I don't take orders from anyone except (as a matter of prudence) my wife.
