Sentence examples for prudence it from inspiring English sources

On current growth forecasts the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a think-tank, predicts Labour could in fact boost departmental spending slightly and achieve current budget surplus in 2019-20.In its manifesto Labour emphasised prudence; it proudly claims all its planned new spending is fully funded by new taxes.

Also, if you value a quality such as prudence, it's easy to confuse its positive opposite — boldness — with its negative opposite — recklessness, which is precisely what prudence is designed to protect against.

The City may admire prudence; it does not admire failure.

Time for prudence, it would seem, for some corrective behaviour.

For the sake of prudence, it seemed the station agent ought to know why I was about to go on the tracks.

While the government's punish-the-shareholders plan should encourage shareholder prudence, it might also mean that the mere whiff of crisis sends equity holders to the exits, thereby producing actual crisis.

The former prime minister said his party needed to "show its heart again, which is all too often concealed by its financial prudence", if it hoped to fight off a Labour resurgence in the next general election.

Maybe it is because they have been scared into prudence, maybe it is because they can no longer get the credit to which they have long been addicted, but they are spending less.

But it would do so, ultimately, because of the strength of the German economy and its government's own legendary prudence (and it would raise Germany's own borrowing costs).

("I always used sheaths when prudence dictated it," Wells claims).

Conservatives shouldn't show compassion or Labour prudence because it would make future government with the Liberal Democrats easier.