Sentence examples for over prudence from inspiring English sources
Letting banks sell securities and insurance products and services allowed them to grow too big too fast, and fueled a culture that put profit and pay over prudence.
March 2012 FSA says the Bank of Scotland arm of HBOS committed "very serious misconduct" in the run-up to the crisis and prioritised risk over prudence.
Worried that financial alchemy was winning out over prudence, the committee agreed last October that such hybrid capital should be limited to 15% of tier-one capital, and should be "permanent".
The FSA said BoS's corporate division ran an aggressive, high-risk growth strategy, prioritised optimism over prudence and sanctioned too many big loans to a small number of borrowers.
For example, our society often values and rewards confidence over prudence.
The majority Sunnis boycotted their first election in protest of the US occupation, essentially falling prey to pride over prudence, and giving the polls--along with Iraq's second largest city--to the Kurdish minority.
She has had a successful, if peripatetic, career as a writer through the years (she wrote her own syndicated newspaper column from the late 1960's into the 1970's), although it wasn't until 1999 that she made the leap to Mother's line of work and took over the Dear Prudence advice column for Slate online.
During the debates over the prudence of the Sicilian expedition, the most withering contempt is reserved for the belligerence of armchair hawks whose enthusiasm for the campaign is in inverse proportion to their personal experience of combat.
"They are doing God's work over there, and they are doing that to keep us safe," Obama said after days of back-and-forth between federal and state officials over the prudence of quarantining returning aid workers.
The industry still prizes short-term profit over long-term prudence, today's bonus over tomorrow's relationship.
Groh said both he and Testaverde wanted the starting quarterback to play, but that 'we had to let prudence take over".
