Harm done and personal culpability are the watchwords followed by looking carefully at any mitigation.
Understandably EBK, the Swiss banking watchdog, has made it clear that prudence and sobriety are to be the watchwords once more.
Today, Ahold is back on track and thriving, generating half the sales it did five years ago, but twice the profits.For Kimberly Ross, the CFO, the watchwords are focus and predictability.
Transparency, one of the watchwords of this election, was lacking .They go stuff the boxes in there," shouted one man.
Self-preservation and opportunism have been his watchwords.
Secrecy and centralisation are useful watchwords in a conventional war.
Its watchwords were "clear-hold-build": clear an area of insurgents, hold on to the gains rather than move on, and build up government and the local economy.
Top-end restaurants in the West's largest cities tout insect-based dishes.It seems a fashionable novelty, buoyed by worthy watchwords: sustainable, healthy, low on greenhouse-gas emissions and highly nutritive (for insects contain up to 65% protein, three times the fraction in beef).
Mr Fayyad says his watchwords will be "security, security, security", but even his fans are sceptical.
"Distance and dignity are our watchwords," says Lynn Goldberg, one of her public-relations consultants.Even so, some doubt that she can last.
Orden y paz, order and peace, were his watchwords.
