The bureaucratic course of least resistance was to make the threat public in a general way, while withholding the very information that would help people make prudent decisions.
Barclays Bank took this one step further, rolling out a plan to pay 2010 bonuses for its senior bankers with contingent convertible bonds, or "cocos"— which could give bankers even more of an incentive to make prudent decisions.
Still, the charities said that the main theme remained unchanged: that they were doing their best in the most unusual circumstances to figure out how best to help the greatest number of people and still make prudent decisions about how the aid should be spent.
Even if investors aren't taking an overly conservative approach, the energy sector usually does in order to make prudent decisions regarding projects and spending.
"We don't want to rush it, we want to get these right - we've got to look at the way we hired people in the past, learn from those lessons and make prudent decisions".
Like starting a road trip without a good map, students who don't understand what kind of financial situation they are getting into are "less equipped to make prudent decisions about what to study, how many courses to take and what kinds of jobs to pursue," they wrote.
This essential framework of our American government limits official power and maintains oversight among the branches of government and the public to help ensure our government makes prudent decisions and to protect our rights and the values and institutions of our nation.
We are making prudent business decisions to ensure the future of the company".
"If I am the face of American foreign policy and American power," Barack Obama mused not long ago aboard his campaign plane, "as long as we are also making prudent strategic decisions, handling emergencies, crises and opportunities in the world in an intelligent and sober way......
It is a practical theory that depends on the actual historical and political conditions, and is ultimately judged by its ethical standards and by its relevance in making prudent political decisions (Morgenthau 1962).
