Sentence examples for were prudent from inspiring English sources

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were prudent

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Sagacious in adapting means to ends; circumspect in action, or in determining any line of conduct; careful, discreet, sensible; -- opposed to rash; directed by prudence or wise forethought; evincing prudence;

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"I believed that [MF Global's] investments in short-term European debt securities were prudent," Corzine said.

"They were prudent," says Phillip Swagel, an economist who tackled similar questions under Mr Paulson.

When the Chinese were convinced it was, "they said we were prudent and reasonable," Dr. Dunkle said.

South African banks were prudent: There is an interesting link between such prudence and real economies where possibility still abounds.

"So our immediate reaction was to take steps we thought were prudent until we knew exactly what we had, and that's exactly what was done".

In their view, her Puritan persecutors, even if clumsy in their moral reasoning and premodern in their legal proceedings, were prudent to fear her.

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"They are prudent people".

The uninsured are prudent.

I've been prudent.

"This is prudent," he said.

This is prudent public relations.

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