Certainly, Sean FitzPatrick, Anglo Irish's ex-chairman, makes Sir Fred Goodwin look prudent.
The rush to balance the books in time for the next election in 2015 may look prudent.
But the project no longer looked prudent, Mr. Powell concluded — not with sales down nearly 5percentt, stock markets extinguishing savings, home prices plunging and jobs disappearing.
Accordingly, they are trying to claim "internationalism" for themselves, so that they can look prudent and modest — in comparison with the ideology that failed to recognize the threat from Adolf Hitler.
But it also looked prudent, since those blocks may be worth much more as more becomes known about Tupi.Amid the euphoria, which included an instant leap of 26% in Petrobras's share price, came suspicion about the timing of the announcement.
And again, in light of recent legal and legislative developments in other parts of the Western world, vis-a-vis encryption, that decision looks prudent.
But Mr. Obama's willingness to negotiate looks prudent, in retrospect.
Will the omission of England from the Premier League's title look like prudent foresight, or will it remain as a symbol of an unfulfilled plan for domination?
"At this point in time — and given the limited revenue streams that this model has — we have to look at prudent expense management and ways to produce revenue.
Although some of the problems that Mr Miliband wants to tackle such as Britain's self-defeating culture of short-termism are real, hishort-termism arees look neitherealudent nor practical.
