How To Use Cautious In A Sentence
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She was cautious, but Feinstein finds no trace of dishonour in the care she took to keep herself alive and free through successive waves of revolution and purgation.
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Gervinho might prove to be another classic Arsène Wenger bargain, an athletic and pacy ball player raring to step up a level, spirited over from France for a fee that doesn't make a certain manager with a well-documented devotion to cautious housekeeping choke as if he was asked to fix the Greek economy before breakfast.
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Buyers are a good deal more cautious, and sellers have to adopt a less bullish approach.
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Indeed, since entering 2011, I have been cautious; and except for the 14-point, first day of the year "yippee" to 1273, the SPX hasn't really done all that much.
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It was his custom to approach every problem cautiously.
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First, investors have moved back into equities from their previously cautious positions in less risky bonds.
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And workers 'wages barely budged, meaning consumers will probably stay somewhat cautious in the months ahead.
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In the testing field, Guo Jingjing did not have in athletic field fierceness, opens cautiously.
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Valerie cautiously approached the door, reaching for the handle and turning the knob.
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And yet we should be cautious in history of assuming _post hoc propter hoc_.
The Age of the Reformation
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I went back on the singles circuit even though the break with Vic should have made me cautious.
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And in the current climate of falling property prices, valuers are being overcautious.
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Be cautious: many busy prospective employers are turned off by unsolicited phone calls.
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He was very cautious about committing himself to anything.
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He has always liked to stitch his folk songwriting to a muted electronic backbeat, and he retains that sense of cautious experimentalism here.
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Here he sounds like the cautious elder, advising a sympathetic intellectualism that would open people to self-understanding.
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The financial services industry is always looking for new ways to lure cautious investors out of the deposit account and into the market with low-risk investments.
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Owning to the severe winter, the zoo staff is being extra cautious with animals.
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Brisk walking cautiously planning small step "If you want to be too big, start smaller, faster expansion" is a global information system engineering building consensus.
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Dolly has discovered that the little West Highland puppy next door is willing to exchange cautious sniffs and snuffles under the fence and I think she's quite taken with the little mite.
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Our challenge is to be cautious not to take on a tone of self-righteousness and insensitivity to those whose policies we critique.
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A group of men and women advanced cautiously into the clearing, covering the wounded with their slings, blowpipes, and bows.
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Pulling a robe over her nightdress, she cautiously left the room.
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The clouds have no notion of being caricatured, and the trees keep cautiously away from the brink of such streams -- save, perchance, now and then, here and there, a weak well-meaning willow -- a thing of shreds and patches -- its leafless wands covered with bits of old worsted stockings, crowns of hats, a bauchle
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She advanced on herself cautiously but with dignity, turning round before her turning image.
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The cautiously pretty title track is the year's most penetrating earworm.
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At last she heard the cautious, stuffless tread of his rubber-soled shoes shuffling along the hall.
The Lodger
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She peeked cautiously this way and that—there was no sign of the usual chaos caused by the goat's antics.
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These investors are generally more cautious than speculative hedge funds willing to take a punt at a higher price.
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Most are pretty cautious again and this time they could be right.
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Lest any misunderstanding should remain - and it is likely that I have sometimes used incautious language in presenting the theistic case - I must stress the following points.
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It also made teachers and lecturers overcautious.
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His articulate grasp of issues and willingness to say risky things will favorably contrast him with the overcautious candidates who parse every poll-tested word.
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Cautiously he looked forth over flat landscape of building site, of brickfield, of the huge tanks and lush vegetation of sewage farms.
A Sheaf of Corn
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All around us, Berliners were lighting off fireworks, firecrackers, noisemakers and rockets, and none too cautiously.
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I am cautiously optimistic that a new government will be concerned and aware about the environment.
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If you'd prefer to be cautious, use glass jars to store leftovers or wrap foods in wax paper before wrapping them in aluminum.
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Cautious by nature, Simpkin was reluctant to interfere.
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If you want sober, cautious, level-headed judgment read The Economist.
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When the voice-producer has learned to intonate surely, when the voice is "placed," and the secrets of the registers are known to him, he will do well to experiment a little, cautiously, with his own resonance-chambers, so as to widen his practical knowledge of the principles underlying the modification of tones.
Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged)
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the ray of light revealed his cautious opening of the door
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This is a third reason for being cautious about the sustainability of current UK growth.
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Although Johnston depicts Cook as a cautious and dignified man compared to his vainglorious counterpart, both men risked their reputations in their mutual quest.
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Yet to balance it up there are those who remain patient and cautiously optimistic.
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So let us for once be more cautious, let us be "unphilosophical": let us say that in all willing there is firstly a plurality of sensations, namely, the sensation of the condition "AWAY FROM
Beyond Good and Evil
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I then sifted together powdered sugar and a cautious amount of cocoa.
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The world's largest maker of computer security software forecast second-quarter sales and profit that missed analysts 'estimates, citing weakness in the euro and "cautiousness" among customers.
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While his voice was hardly dissenting, it was heavy with cautiousness and pragmatism.
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But it also behooves us to be very cautious in accusing someone of racism. sensible Cape Coral FL
Republicans say Carter playing 'race card'
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A lunchbox tells the world that one is a cautious drudge.
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Therefore, we have to take precautious measures to fund the individual account and guarantee a sustainable development of old-age insurance system.
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People always tend to be more cautious during an economic slump.
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Page 252 upwards and forwards; lay bare the digastric and stylo-hyoid muscles at the bottom of the wound, by means of the point of the director or the forceps and draw them forward with a blunt hook: hold the sites of the incision wide apart, carry the nerve and vein backward with the end of the finger, and cautiously open the sheath of the vessel; and then, with the artery isolated apply the ligature by means of an aneurismal needle.
An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.
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Cautiously, unwilling, he stole a keek at that picture of Alistair.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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Nevertheless he began cautiously, with a four-iron off the 1st tee, his mild slice finding the light rough on the right of the fairway.
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Added to this is a general feeling of economic uncertainty - with military action looming and Wall Street unsettled, Americans are adopting a cautious view towards non-essential spending.
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I feel cautiously optimistic that the lurgy has retreated enough that I won't pay a terrible price for going, but still ...
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Slowly, he heaved himself up on to his feet, and cautiously stepped up to the eyehole once more.
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They should have won but became more cautious after they took the lead instead of going all out for a second goal.
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Bankers are cautiously optimistic about the country's economic future.
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There are Government sites that cautiously say there is ‘no conclusive evidence’ of danger.
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These sceptical, cautious and cloistered arrangements constitute the distinctive institutions of science which separate it from other more worldly activities.
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IT security and data protection firm Sophos is advising Facebook users to be cautious following a widespread clickjacking attack that hit hundreds of thousands of users on the popular networking site over the holiday weekend.
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I am fully aware that Volkswagen was too cautious for too long in North America," Volkswagen Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn said at a test-driving event for the new Jetta in San Francisco this summer.
Volkswagen Aims at Fast Lane in U.S.
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Six months later, no one has reeled the big boy in, but the gunslinger remains cautiously optimistic.
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At the stern I play tag with a cautious batfish but fail to get close.
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He still continued, however, cautiously to progress along the road on which be was benighted, and at length the twinkling of a distant light raised some hope of succour in his heart.
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Keller is cautious about making predictions for the success of the program.
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They were used to a living environment where they didn't need to be cautious; their numerousness made them indestructible.
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The way in which the story is both narrated and enacted can seem cautious and noncommittal.
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Mortgages can quickly become unaffordable if your circumstances change and newly cautious businesses might either stop recruiting or increase redundancies.
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Her tail began to wag as he approached, and he cautiously dropped onto one knee before reaching to untangle her leash.
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They expressed cautious optimism about a solution to the crisis.
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The president became more cautious as his popularity dipped.
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I turned my head cautiously, just enough so that he wouldn't be able to see a silhouette of water droplets.
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And it draws his attention to the fact he should be more prudent and cautious when it comes to ticketing.
The Sun
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The closing Obama speech is cautious, calibrated to cement the inroads he has made with voters whose comfort level with him has grown.
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I will definitely be more cautious in the future when boarding or alighting from a train.
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Be cautious with these intervals if you have knee issues, or do not do them at all.
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In addition, Mr. Safdie has incautiously stackied the dramatic deck in favor of Shlaminger's adversaries.
Not in My Front Yard
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I have been amazed at much of the cautiousness displayed in much of the current analysis of the dying giant.
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Uncharismatic, cautious and controlling, she does not look like the natural winner of a popularity contest.
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It may be anticipated that the court will exercise the power cautiously and only in appropriate circumstances.
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While the combined use of Hypericum with orthodox medications has even shown an increased favorable response, it is advisable to exert some cautious watchfulness with the prolonged usage of St. Johnswort with serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) and monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOI).
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She got cautiously back to her feet, but didn't walk any nearer.
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He has a record of cautious reform as economy minister but doubts remain over whether he has the grit to push through far-reaching structural change.
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It is no longer enough to service the insurance needs of a few hundred thousand cautious policyholders.
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On the other hand overcautious, be afraid that policy changes, await wait - and - see .
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They appear anxious, insecure, cautious, sensitive and quiet, and often react by crying and withdrawing.
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Elvin," said he, in a cautious whisper, with his accustomed gesture of scraping his cheek, "I've got suthin 'to say to ye.
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Andy drove cautiously along in third gear .
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Mr. Gibbs also struck me as a cautious and careful man and an impressive witness.
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After months of being cautious and playing hard to get, I'm going to bravely risk rejection this time.
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When the two-ship Argentine fleet approached Monterey, the local government cautiously retreated inland, leaving the defense to the soldiers in the presidio, or fort, and to pro-Spain militiamen.
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Plans to transform waste ground in Westhoughton into a residential area have been given a cautious welcome.
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This is partly due to the exit from those lines and partly to a more cautious consumer environment.
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FROM one cagey, cautious display to another.
The Sun
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This cautious strategy allows Frankie to remain in a cocoon, unaffected by the encumbrances of getting close to other people.
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Brands need to be cautious about which environment they place themselves in.
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No. I've been thinking euphemisms like 'overcautious' and 'reluctance to risk bodily harm.'
Crashlander
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Be generous with the pepper, but cautious with the salt if your bacon is salty.
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It was obvious that she was cautiously weighing me up.
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Be extremely cautious as as you tighten the screws, so not to strip the screw holes.
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So when Glenn came knocking on her door a year after she walked out of his, bearing a bouquet of out-of-season ranunculus, she welcomed him back with cautiously open arms, sick of hoping to meet him, ready to be an us again.
Georgia’s Kitchen
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"I really don't know, sir, " Ryan replied slowly, treading cautiously on this ground.
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She's no' going ram-stam into the business; she's cautious like mysel'.
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An incautious word, I felt, could spark off resentment.
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You read them and you see a man so cautiously calculating not to put a foot wrong that he envelops himself in a fog of caveats and equivocations.
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She cast herself as cautious, well prepared and unwilling to compromise her safety.
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Luke had become an introverted, timid, and overly cautious lover.
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The parents should furthermore be vigilant and cautious in viewing programmes on cable TV.
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But it is still useful to find it recorded in a single volume that brings the story up to date and peers cautiously into the future.
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It's not that the secretaries of State and Defense are always like-minded: Rumsfeld is widely and not inaccurately seen as a hawkish "go it alone" interventionist, while Powell tends to take a more cautious and "multilateralist" approach.
Chemistry In The War Cabinet
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Water sloshed over sidewalks on some sections of Shore Acres Boulevard, and signs warning motorists to be cautious were placed at entrances to the subdivision.
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It could make overly cautious surfers happy but we land-lubbers better start coming up with some ways to stick our finger in the dike.
Don Ringe: The $100 Trillion Tsunami
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It is a pity that the drivers of these vehicles are not more cautious and aware.
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In the praying mantids, the insect group most notorious for sexual cannibalism, males have been suggested to reduce the females' aggression by courtship displays and ‘cautious behavior’.
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Users need to be cautious as rogue mobile apps are capable of infecting devices with viruses and can access personal data.
The Sun
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Greatly refreshed by this opportune bit and sup, the tired and "droukit" rider cheerfully resumed his way; and it was with a stout heart that, after a certain time, he found Roderick cautiously leading the pony down to the water's edge.
Prince Fortunatus
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Fear motivates us to drive cautiously even when in a great hurry, and fear makes a diabetic adhere to his diet and take his insulin daily.
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She turned her eyes away from Gaston and towards the helm, where the steering master was being extra cautious in his navigation of the ship, one eye on the compass at all times.
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Potential listeners also are cautious about venturing on to a campus with circuitous roads, dense eucalyptus groves and notoriously problematic parking.
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It is the novelist's innate cowardice that makes him depute to imaginary personalities the sins that he is too cautious to commit for himself.
Where's the show?
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A retired four-star general, Clark is more cautious, as most generals are, about how resources are used, because he knows it is costly to create the modern soldier.
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They are unusually cautious and averse to risk taking.
Christianity Today
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Courcelles succeeded in robbing the prisoners who were in his charge in a more cautious manner than his predecessor; he, in short, contrived to subtract something for himself from any remittances which reached them, and paid them francs for livres.
The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1
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Builders – calm, well-mannered, loyal and cautious.
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The policy was rejected in favour of a more cautious approach.
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When I started has become a kind of cautious person.
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Today the Fed has not only lost that touch but, given the way our political and financial system currently operates, its own policies exacerbate the cycle of overexuberance and incautious lending that will bring on the next major crisis (and presumably another severe recession).
The Fed, Innovation And The Next Recession
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In fact, it is advisable to be cautious and consult a doctor prior to departure.
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Similarly, the RSPB is being cautious: they say that they would be more than happy to accept the species as a native, but compelling evidence that demonstrates this has yet to be produced (go here for their statement).
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My mum made a cod steak and I remembered being cautious about eating it.
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Troy's thin smile was cautious, guarded, like he was afraid of something.
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They cautiously advanced into the small basin, carefully examining the ground for footprints or other signs of recent use.
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I tread cautiously here, firstly because my one posted review, which has no comments as of this writing, is quite weak, if inoffensively so.
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Labour handlers are more cautious and say they would be happy with five.
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Celeborn is, in fact, quite decisive, whereas Galadriel is deliberative and cautious.
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Fans of classic film move forward: Others should proceed cautiously.
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A cautious beginning was made of releasing some of the tens of thousands who had been falsely imprisoned.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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Bill later claims that he was "bewitched" when he began the cautious descent.
Laguna Catemaco, Veracruz
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The governor, cautious, calculating, deal-making, fundraising, looks to voters like the base of the political class that rules them.
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But while enjoying different foods and customs, she is also learning when to be cautious.
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You just need to remember to be cautious and constantly aware of what comments you are posting.
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An incautious word from you could set our wilful prince's feet on a path where none of us could safely follow him.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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He lowered his arm slowly, cautiously, extending it well away from him, and the bird mantled as it shifted its weight to balance on his wrist.
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Work began to come in: commissions for schools, offices and housing, as well as the inevitable promising projects scuppered by cautious planners.
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Horrid streams of a-a have to be cautiously skirted, which after rushing remorselessly over the kindlier lava have heaped rugged pinnacles of brown scoriae into impassable walls.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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Early Elizabethan anthems were modelled on the Latin antiphon or motet, but they cautiously followed the queen's injunction by being largely syllabic, with a minimum of counterpoint.
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It has been used, for example, against those who refer too incautiously to the civilian carnage visited upon Gaza and Lebanon by the Israeli Defence Forces.
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They maintain that since public safety is their concern therefore they have to be very cautious.
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The government has been cautious in its response to the report.
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The words came over clearly but cautiously: Leslie Brent was denied his ambition to be a cook.
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These investors are generally more cautious than speculative hedge funds willing to take a punt at a higher price.
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In addition, the recessional economy has created a more cautious buying environment.
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They are unusually cautious and averse to risk taking.
Christianity Today
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Cautiously, Rakael twitched the covers aside, exposing his pale chest.
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This represents a very substantial penalty and will undoubtedly make other owners and builders much more cautious over alterations.
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They might betray themselves to the enemy with some incautious action.
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He was an experienced and cautious rider.
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Today, awareness of skin cancer has led us to be more cautious of prolonged exposure to sunlight.
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The big favourites spent most of the day riding cautiously.
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If that were true, it would be hard indeed to understand his very cautious approach to other scientific problems.
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In fact, because I have an overcautious habit of pulling up the storm jib on the inner forestay whenever the weather forecast is bad and the wind rises above about 25 knots, I can actually claim to have left the safety of the cockpit in over 35 knots of wind only once.
True Spirit
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A layer of ice and a light snow cover is the great equalizer; only the cautious survive and the only driver smiling is my neighbor, the tow truck operator, as he stops by the bank to lighten his load.
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I am persuaded that all valetudinarians are too sedentary, too regular, and too cautious — We should sometimes increase the motion of the machine, to unclog the wheels of life; and now and then take a plunge amidst the waves of excess, in order to caseharden the constitution.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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We're cautious about whether this spectacular success in dogs would be quite so spectacular in humans.
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Belinda risked a cautious glance at him, but met only an unreadable profile.
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If cautious, and the recent events worldwide will make the standard VaR calculations assume lognormality them even more so.
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Titian, indeed, may be said to have first opened his eyes to the mysteries of nature; but they were no sooner opened, than he rushed into them with a rapidity and daring unwont to the more cautious spirit of his master; and, though irregular, eccentric, and often inferior, yet sometimes he made his way to poetical regions, of whose celestial hues even Titian himself had never dreamt.
Lectures on Art
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He will have worked his way up by cautious conservatism and careful calculation.
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Be cautious of eating raw store-bought cookie dough, though.
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However, when it comes to holiday spending, we are just that little bit more cautious.
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a cautious driver
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But unlike some scares based on rumors or overcautiousness, the alarm among parishioners at a Long Island church this week is based on a confirmed finding: Someone who touched the communion wafers distributed at two packed services on Christmas Day was infected with hepatitis A.
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An overcautious approach makes for dull environments.
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Insurers would treat them as cautious drivers.
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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new. Galileo Galilei
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Others are dining, on the cautious assumption that a nine o'clock party might not provide adequate food.
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16th and 15th Streets are main thoroughfares, with little commercial activity - be cautious at night.
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You should be cautious when getting involved and test the water before committing yourself.
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The attitudes many of these young people had developed were both cautious and illiberal.
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His fingertip came away with a coating of slime, which Umber wiped off on his pant leg. The root paused for a moment, as a worm might when prodded, and then resumed its cautious journey.
End of Time
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Brands need to be cautious about which environment they place themselves in.
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I am careless, improvident, uncautious, happy out of sheer well - being and overplus of physical energy.
Chapter 15
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It added that constrained mortgage lending and the continued economic uncertainty meant it remained cautious about future prospects.
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You can set up elaborate traps and seductions - leaving pieces out for capture to ensnare your opponent - or you can play cautiously.
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They are cautiously optimistic that the reforms will take place.
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The commission is cautiously favourable to Austrian membership, foreseeing few economic problems.
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The actor now vows to be more selective and cautious in his onward journey.
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The pouch was adopted by cautious New Yorkers in the 1970s, "when mugging was a significant threat" recalls Simon Doonan, creative ambassador-at-large at Barneys.
With Fanny Packs on the Runway, Can Mom Jeans Be Far Behind?
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I am cautiously optimistic that a new government will be concerned and aware about the environment.
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People are becoming far more cautious with their money.
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Fear motivates us to drive cautiously even when in a great hurry, and fear makes a diabetic adhere to his diet and take his insulin daily.
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And as anybody who watched the Chambliss/Martin runoff election last year knows, the current administration is exceptionally cautious about that sort of thing.
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People are becoming far more cautious with their money.
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Bankers are cautiously optimistic about the country's economic future.
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an especially (or specially) cautious approach to the danger
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This may have explained the lack of subsequent goals, with cautious players saving themselves for imaginary knockout games.
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