Rather, it is simply a prudent self defense against a totalitarian state intent on stealing our defense and industrial secrets and ultimately our jobs, national security, and way of life.
He has had the self-discipline -- call it wisdom -- to stay well within the circumference of his abilities, a piece of prudent self knowledge that might have caused him to miss some fine investments, but made him uneasy.
An intelligent person is open-minded, an outside-the-box thinker, an effective communicator, is prudent, self-critical, consistent, and so on.
This is a self-restrained movie that celebrates people who are prudent, self-disciplined, ambitious and tough enough to do that work.
Andy Sundberg, another director of American Citizens Abroad, said, "These banks are closing our accounts as acts of prudent self-defense".
America has also encouraged small countries with large shipping registries such as Liberia, Panama, the Marshall Islands and the Bahamas to mandate prudent self-protection by vessels.Already, the line between peaceful merchant ships and naval ones is blurring a little.
His love and loyalty "in the teeth of circumstance, opinion, prudent self-interest, in the teeth even of Emma herself," McCarthy wrote, make this good if flatly unheroic man the novel's moral hero.
Last year Red and White Holdings, the investment company which holds Usmanov's shares in Arsenal, wrote an open letter to the club's board, criticising their prudent self-sustaining model and accusing them of squeezing fans with higher ticket prices at the same time as selling their shares for personal profit.
I'd say that in healthy societies government wants to subtly tip the scale to favor temperate, prudent, self-governing citizenship.
It is also doubtful that morality has simply been thrust upon us from above by the threat of divine judgment, for this too would reduce morality to nothing more than prudent self-interest.
Despite the well-meaning aim of promoting prudent self-care practices among physicians and protecting patients, these ethical guidelines are not necessarily followed [ 26].
