Sentence examples for prudence against from inspiring English sources

One lesson was "a failure to guard against optimism and build in a margin for prudence against unexpected events".

Bodenheimer said the company was trying to balance fiscal prudence against its ambition to win the auction.

Each corporation, in its bidding, will have to balance several factors: fiscal prudence against a desire to win, and prestige against the anxiety that war or terrorism could interrupt future Olympics, reducing viewership and diminishing advertiser demand.

"When whites protested against Prudence Crandall having blacks at her school, they were worried about the same things that, sadly, some whites still worry about today: an influx of blacks into their neighborhood, property values going down and the threat of interracial marriages," said David White, museum director for the Connecticut Historical Commission.

Even after doing the due diligence as described above, prudence may counsel against proceeding.

But against all prudence, with the full force of her pride, she refused.

"We can stand against powers with prudence rather than with slogans," Mr. Rouhani said recently.

Russia's reluctance to approve harsh sanctions against Iran could reflect prudence.

The Declaration of Independence, in setting out its great justification for rebellion, also warned against doing so lightly: "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes".

But I agree that the administration pushed up against the line that separates prudence from weakness.

From job training and environmental protection to highway building and public housing, social needs will be pitted against national security and fiscal prudence.