In early 2001, he was often depicted as the embodiment of the spirit and foreign-policy prudence of past Republican administrations.
Where Republicans once were the party of fiscal rectitude, foreign-policy prudence, and sound government, they are now associated with deficits, recklessness, maladministration, and scandal.
Kennan's "realism" — the policy of prudence and self-restraint — is the path usually not taken.
"The modern liberal devotion to sex education is an ideological commitment rather than a policy of prudence".
Attorney General Edward Bates left in part because he felt marginalized, and he cited the administration's "open contempt of Constitution and law" and "ignorance of policy and prudence".
"Most governments, including the key ones in Brazil and Mexico, have implemented very sensible macroeconomic policies — fiscal prudence, controlling inflation — and public companies tend to be of very good quality," he said.
Hasn't Ashley, after all, been proved right regarding moves such as the eye-watering £35m sale of Andy Carroll to Liverpool, and the policy of financial prudence?
Nunn arrived at the National six months after Tony Blair took office and, exactly like the Labour leader, instantly pursued a policy of fiscal prudence.
This is an eyebrow-raising departure from the club's long-practised policy of financial prudence and a measure of the directors' own desperation to sign a player who could make a telling difference.
In that year, he persuaded his close friend David Cameron, now prime minister, that a policy of fiscal prudence and deficit reduction would be the quickest route to power for the Conservative Party.
