Sentence examples for ordinary prudent from inspiring English sources

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In Speight v Gaunt, Lord Blackburn said that "as a general rule a trustee sufficiently discharges his duty if he takes in managing trust affairs all those precautions which an ordinary prudent man of business would take in managing similar affairs of his own", similar to an objective test.

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The faylasūfs felt free to explore inner truths not exposed to the view of ordinary people; they practiced prudent concealment (taqiyyah) of their deeper awareness wherever making it public might endanger the social order.

But this argument seems to favor monarchy; for just as the universe is ruled by one, i.e., God, there "should not be a number of ordinary people who rule, but one prudent and true statesman".

In the light of the ongoing market conditions, we are taking the prudent step of cutting our ordinary dividend payments by fifty per cent, starting with the final dividend for 2015.

In a 2006 case involving a Ponzi scheme, for example, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York ruled that the "exercise of ordinary intelligence" must be used by a prudent investor "or he will not be heard to complain that he was induced to enter into the transaction by misrepresentations".

For the ordinary investors, these are warning signals to be prudent and protect your assets.

This recipe, cooked up by Prudent Baby, looks as tasty as ordinary French toast, but is infinitely more adorable.

Government budget cuts are causing economies to contract, Mr. Draghi said, while the benefits of more prudent spending are not yet visible to ordinary citizens.

By bringing ordinary people into the middle of the process, they most often arrive at wise and prudent decisions about complex budgetary issues.

Prudent perhaps.

That could seem prudent.

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