A backward-looking responsibility principle claims that patients who have caused their bad health through voluntary but imprudent choices in the past should be down-prioritised, required to pay more for medical care, or in some other way stand back to others who have made more prudent choices in the past.
Sustainable food production has re-emerged at the top of the global policy agenda, driven by two challenges: (1) the challenge to produce enough food to feed a growing world population and (2) the challenge to make more efficient and prudent use of the world's natural resources.
In the material universe, you can't actually make more matter, so you have to be prudent about how you use the matter that you have.
The council said it had to make more than £70m in savings but could still invest due to "prudent stewardship".
Glemp's situation was made even worse because, while the pope on his world stage was free to make more heroic and challenging statements about Poland, Glemp, being nearer the Polish authorities, was cast in a more prudent role.
Rather than attempting another trip to London, Clarke was interviewed by the Governor of Gibraltar, Lord Gort, who judged Clarke's answers acceptable and concluded that "we can reasonably expect that this escapade and its consequences will have given him sufficient shock to make him more prudent in the immediate future".
A calculation of expenses of child minders and baby sitters and creches and nurseries and emotional side effects of these facilities could make it more prudent for the man to take care of the newborns.
And, he said, the company's experience with 2,500 business customers, which have enrolled 45,000 employees, shows that workers "make much more prudent decisions" about where to spend their money.
Arguably, the fact that it is harder for society bosses to raise capital makes them more prudent with what they have.
