Sentence examples for quite prudent from inspiring English sources

The decision to retain Overbay even after Teixeira returned has proved to be quite prudent.

"They didn't commit the sins of others of relying on the wholesale markets, and they've been quite prudent".

In reality, her influence was negligible prior to 1700 and quite prudent during the last 15 years of Louis XIV's reign.

"Business is according to our expectations and more or less matching our budget, which was quite prudent," says John Hooks, deputy managing director of Giorgio Armani.

"So far regulators have been quite prudent in trying not to burden the banking sector too much," said Marie Diron, an economist in London who advises Ernst & Young, the consulting firm.

The plot of Roald Dahl's short story "Taste", meanwhile, hinges on identifying a rare Bordeaux, but the real amusement comes from the pretensions of the wine taster: "a prudent wine … rather diffident and evasive but quite prudent", he says.

In fact, it's rather prudent.

Since 1080p is still a little way away from hitting the mainstream (once the TV networks get behind it you know it legit), springing for a cheap 720p projector could be quite the prudent move.

Taxing carbon could eliminate the catastrophic risk of vastly rising global temperatures by the end of this century; it would be a prudent act, quite apart from its utility as an economic stimulus.

In his order, Judge Kaplan said it was "prudent and quite possibly essential" for Mr. Ghailani to appear, to ensure that his decision to boycott hearings has been based on a knowing waiver of his rights.

For Cambodian loggers, that means having to push farther into Thailand's territory risking capture, injury or death.In this section Not-quite-eternal Nursultan Dead wood Prudent and proactive Gasping for breath More than pomp and frolics ReprintsThe cause of the boom is simple: growing demand in Vietnam and, especially, China.