Sentence examples for ordinary prudence from inspiring English sources

The practice began as ordinary prudence and became an affectation.

The real problem goes back to the initial question: The overall system's operation often depends on the assumption that a president will not act too far outside the bounds of ordinary prudence.

The test is a subjective one: Whether the plaintiff in fact understood [103 Wn.2d 657] the risk; not whether the reasonable person of ordinary prudence would comprehend the risk.

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.

But the state countered that the justices applied too stringent a test of the risk and that "a person of ordinary prudence and caution" would agree that the state acted properly.

Under the circumstances of the case it was proper to leave it to the jury whether with reference to the caution which would have been observed by [Bing (N. C). 477]a man of ordinary prudence, the Defendant had not been guilty of gross negligence.

The law considers, in other words, what would be blameworthy in the average man, the man of ordinary intelligence and prudence, and determines liability by that.

Id. [934 S.W.2d 753] However, we held that "it cannot be said that [the defendant,] as a person of ordinary intelligence and prudence, should have anticipated that [the plaintiff] would sustain an injury by wrenching his back while performing the very job he was employed to do, i.e., the placement of sand on the oil spill". Id.

The mere delegation of this responsibility to his agents with no oversight does not demonstrate ordinary care or prudence.

We show a new aggregation rule based on the composite value function that is able to represent asymmetric attitude on extreme events (optimism with respect to windfall gains and pessimism with respect to catastrophic events) and a rational prudence on ordinary events.

It can also impose a 5% tax on "jeopardy investments" for failing to "exercise ordinary business care and prudence".