Sentence examples for on prudential grounds from inspiring English sources

So, given that the costs could easily turn out to be very high, the bias in such cases should be strongly against intervening, simply on prudential grounds.

Though Judt and Snyder are calling for a more morally informed public discourse — one that moves beyond dollars an interest rates — they remind us that many of those who devised the welfare state in the nineteenth century were thinking just as much on prudential grounds.

In other words, we cannot decide between incommensurable values on moral grounds, so we should decide on prudential grounds.

Even if evolutionary theory could explain how behaviors came to be considered right or wrong on prudential grounds, it fails to provide a bridge capable of supporting the weighty transition to genuine moral values.

Many people with kidney disease seem to be receiving folic acid supplementation 35 and some guidelines recommend supplementation of folic acid and B group vitamins or of water soluble vitamins in people with kidney disease on prudential grounds.

"You would expect a man who has grown up in the Presbyterian tradition of stark Scottish politics to hate the City of London on ethical, moral and prudential grounds.

In respect of (for instance) human reproductive cloning, genetically modified organisms, nanotechnology, robotics and geoengineering, regulation will be called for, on ethical as well as prudential grounds.

I'd worry that whatever regulations are imposed, on prudential or ethical grounds, can't be enforced worldwide any more than drug laws can.

"We have been taking measures on prudential risk.

"The main focus should not be on personal corruption but on prudential management of the institution," Mr. Akash said.

A major challenge facing proponents of epistemic Evidentialism is to find an adequate motivation for it: if there are not sufficient prudential or moral grounds for the obligation to believe on sufficient evidence, then what is the source of its normativity?