How To Use Prudence In A Sentence

Well, it would be in a whole new jurisprudence so far as the prosecution of Commonwealth offences were concerned in this country.
It would be perceived by some critics as a tax on prudence and thrift. Times, Sunday Times
These are mind-boggling questions for a person of normal prudence because in science, colour is simply light of different wavelength.
They whiche unto the warre have given rule, will that the menne be chosen out of temperate countries, to the intente they may have hardines, and prudence, for as muche as the hote countrey, bredes prudente men and not hardy, the colde, hardy, and not prudente. Machiavelli, Volume I
He mixed, however, some prudence with his courage, and passed the greatest part of his time in a country retirement; alleging his advanced age, and the weakness of his eyes.

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This is a very knotty question; it is like asking how far a dropsical man may be punctured without his dying under the operation; this depends on the prudence of the physician. A Philosophical Dictionary
It is not my intention to review the relevant jurisprudence in this ruling.
The happy or unprosperous event of any action, is not only apt to give us a good or bad opinion of the prudence with which it was conducted, but almost always too animates our gratitude or resentment, our sense of the merit or demerit of the design.
It would be perceived by some critics as a tax on prudence and thrift. Times, Sunday Times
I do not myself consider that the Strasbourg jurisprudence can be so neatly encapsulated.
It is immoral and absurd to shackle all citizens because of the feared imprudence or disastrous luck of a tiny percentage.
He scorned prudence in moderation at all times, and his behaviour, when the wave of Revolution at last carried him to power, gave point to the taunt of Thiers -- "c'est un fou furieux. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.)
Education and knowledge without hard work do not necessarily guarantee success, and imprudence, indiscipline and emotional impulsivity contribute to failure. Dr T.P.Chia
After the prize-giving, the festivities begin again and the dancing goes on well into the next morning until hangovers, prudence and normal life kick in.
Born in Lisbon, he studied history, philosophy, and jurisprudence at the University of Lisbon.
The men roughly pulled Prudence and the others from the wagon and put cast iron shackles around their wrists, attaching them to the cart so they wouldn't get away.
The common proverbial maxims of prudence, being founded in universal experience, are perhaps the best general rules which can be given about it.
Payment by result means lawyers are only paid on successful cases with inbuilt incentives for commercial discipline and economic prudence. Times, Sunday Times
Good luck favors emotional intelligence, self-restraint, prudence & emotional illiteracy, impulsivity and recklessness are likely to produce bad luck. Dr T.P.Chia
Her "Willisville" online community, a wildly inventive precursor to something like Second Life, was devised with partner Prudence Fenton in the early 1990s -- years before most Americans even had AOL dial-up access or knew what a social network was -- and lauded by Fortune magazine as one of the emerging Internet's most exciting companies. Kristi York Wooten: Legendary Songwriter Allee Willis Brings Her Party to the People
This is a topic which highlights some of the difficulties which are created if the claimants' views of European jurisprudence are right.
He is considered as the architect of a distinct school of thought in the principles of jurisprudence and Islamic law, and one of the leading exponents of 'kalam'-scholastic theology - and' rijal '- study of the biographies of transmitters of ahadith, the prophetic traditions,' fiqh '- jurisprudence - and WN.com - Articles related to Emirates becomes first Arab airline to operate Czech Republic route
I would have thought that Gazzo was a conspicuous page in the Court's jurisprudence…
Life is in favor of those who are blessed with emotional intelligence, self-restraint, prudence, and positive behavior. Dr T.P.Chia
Only the virtuous person has prudence, and the correct end is not perceived by anyone else. The Times Literary Supplement
Eugene, this post demonstrates the very real conflict between the First Amendment and the speech-as-violation jurisprudence that has accreted under Title VII and similar laws. The Volokh Conspiracy » Anonymous Comments and Modern Tort Law and Antidiscrimination Law
_I answer that, _ _synesis_ signifies a right judgment, not indeed about speculative matters, but about particular practical matters, about which also is prudence. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
Prudence dressed quickly and with Almira hurried to the girls 'rooms while Calvin hastened down the stairs to the scene of destruction. Prudence Crandall, Woman of Courage
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. Independence Day (Blog for Democracy)
Jurisprudence has often been a catch-as-catch-can thing at Tulane and Broad, no more so than since the end of the thirty-year reign of District Attorney Harry Connick Sr., father of the singer. The Lampshade
A summary of different approaches to jurisprudence and judicial decision making among developed countries.
Travelers to such destinations practice extra alertness, precaution and prudence.
Puritan jurisprudence, 113; sabbatarian extravagance provokes reaction, 371. A History of American Christianity
How many "nigger heads" we sold that day, singly, for the purpose of allowing the miners to taste our stock before they bought largely, I have no means of knowing; but fortunately for our reputation, Smith had displayed great prudence in his bargains, and his "cavendish" and "fine cut" were at length pronounced the best that were ever brought to The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia
Do they not gormandize, do they not what Prudence, do they not rob, each other. John Adams diary, June 1753 - April 1754, September 1758 - January 1759
I have no sympathy," replied Prudence, "with a man who deliberately fuddles himself with strong drink. The Ragged Edge
I question whether all the officers of the royal navy can bring together, from all their journals, a collection of so many wonderful escapes as this man has known upon the Thames, on which he has been a thousand and a thousand times on the point of perishing, sometimes by the terrours of foolish women in the same boat, sometimes by his own acknowledged imprudence in passing the river in the dark, and sometimes by shooting the bridge under which he has rencountered mountainous waves, and dreadful cataracts. The Rambler, sections 55-112 (1750-1751); from The Works of Samuel Johnson in Sixteen Volumes, Vol. IV
From the jurisprudence perspective, the judicial practice cannot and simultaneously should not obey the logic of the statute law, or official law all the time.
Further, the overwhelming body of international jurisprudence favours the application of a subjective test.
Treatises on mathematics, music, astronomy, alchemy, medicine, jurisprudence, as well as studies on Athenian judicial terminology and on the topography of Athens. [5.]
La nouvelle jurisprudence criminelle, fondée sur les principes d'humanité et de justice, ne détruit aucune des dispositions réellement injustes et barbares, contenues dans cette loi. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916
If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.
La sage conduitte et la prudence de Monsieur de Champlain Gouuerneur de Kebec et du fleuve sainct Laurens, qui nous honore de sa bien - veillance, retenant vn chacun dans son devoir, a fait que nos paroles et nos prédications ayent esté bien receuens, et la Chapelle qu'il a fait dresser proche du fort a l'honneur de nostre Dame, &c. Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01
Prudence, common sense and wisdom make a better life. Dr T.P.Chia
And so to see a club like York City, once a byword for financial prudence and parsimony, to be staring over the abyss is a mortal blow.
This impetuous and fiery temperament was rendered yet more fearful by the indulgence of every intemperance; it fed on wine and lust; its very virtues strengthened its vices, -- its courage stifled every whisper of prudence; its intellect, uninured to all discipline, taught it to disdain every obstacle to its desires. The Last of the Barons — Complete
When he was gone, she scolded me, and reproached me with what she called my coquetry and imprudence; I could not bear her injustice, and very rashly replied, that no one had a right to blame me when my own conscience absolved me. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. The Declaration of Independence
The Texas statute is sumptuary law that has no value in jurisprudence or society.
When we do not use our time distinctly then intemperance, intolerance and imprudence turn out to be our masters.
If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.
The jurisprudence of capital punishment imposes a tremendous burden on jurors.
To the delight of late-night television comedians, President George H.W. Bush used to talk incessantly about “prudence,” but in fact the term is a deadly serious watchword for the “realist” school of foreign policy. What Would Wilson Do?
To great prudence, self-control, and judgment, he united the dash, daring, and readiness of resources which have always characterized the famous sailors of the world; and in the victory which made his name renowned in naval annals, he displayed these qualities in such a high degree as to deserve the greatest credit for what he achieved as well as for what, under great temptation, he declined to do. The Story of the Barbary Corsairs
For the others, he was majoring in archaeology and forensics, and I was taking courses in law and jurisprudence.
And as the human life is properly said to be chequerwork, no doubt but a person of her prudence will make the best of it, and set off so much good against so much bad, in order to strike as just a balance as possible. Clarissa Harlowe
The whole course of this area of jurisprudence is that similar functions can be discharged both on an executive basis and a judicial basis.
This would be equivalent to the worst form of fiscal imprudence - getting rid of productive assets to meet daily subsistence needs.
As much experience is prudence, so is much science sapience.
She employed, not from any refinement of style, but in order to correct her imprudences, abrupt breaches of syntax not unlike that figure which the grammarians call anacoluthon or some such name. The Captive
This last explanation seems decidedly preferable because the terms here used, particularly the word phronesis prudence, is not in its ordinary sense properly referable to God. A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians
Just look at the relative fiscal profligacy or prudence of those European countries going it alone versus those who have joined the EU. Times, Sunday Times
They realised the necessity of compelling barbarians and provincials alike to respect the elementary rights of person and property; Theodoric the Ostrogoth and Gundobad the Burgundian were the authors of new criminal codes, in the one case mainly, in the other partially, derived from Roman jurisprudence. Medieval Europe
It may well be that what we are most needful of presently is neither more wars nor more laws, but more prudence in the making ofboth. The Volokh Conspiracy » So a Libertarian and a Liberal Walk into a Bar
This reliance on custom over jurisprudence was evident in Nazma's case.
At most it counsels caution, prudence and a little more scepticism.
I have never," said Saffredent, "seen anything punished as a crime except imprudence; in fact, no murderer, robber, or adulterer, is ever punished by justice, or blamed amongst men, provided they are as cunning as they are wicked. The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
Good luck favors emotional intelligence, self-restraint, prudence & emotional illiteracy, impulsivity and recklessness are likely to produce bad luck. Dr T.P.Chia
When the Supreme Court reversed Newdow on narrow technical grounds, Kennedy was spared from facing the consequences of his own jurisprudence.
If that is called imprudence, I wonder what would be called a thoughtful provision against the vicissitudes of fortune. Fantastic Fables
If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.
Just as this ill-fated man appeared at the culminating point of his professional fortunes, he had the imprudence to proclaim himself not only an enthusiastic advocate of mesmerism as a curative process, but an ardent believer of the reality of somnambular clairvoyance as an invaluable gift of certain privileged organizations. A Strange Story — Complete
I would add that in European jurisprudence and in domestic practice this is a strong rule.
After the war, he earned a doctorate in jurisprudence from the Brooklyn Law School.
On the jurisprudence perspective, the judicial practice could not simultaneously should not obey the logic of the statute law, or official law all the time.
Happily your understanding of Second Amendment jurisprudence is as weak as your understanding of Bush v. Gore. The Volokh Conspiracy » Violent Misdemeanants, the Right to Bear Arms, and the Right to Vote
The morality involved in trials of Chinese traditional society may intitule"judicator's ethicality", while which emphasized by occidental jurisprudence intitule"legal or judicial ethicality".
I think I never met a book more "racily" written -- in a special sense of the word -- than _The Progress of Prudence_ (MILLS AND BOON). Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 1, 1914
An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of gold.
Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.
Only the virtuous person has prudence, and the correct end is not perceived by anyone else. The Times Literary Supplement
An old fan-maker having remarked that such a prodigal would soon bring his wife to beggary, father Guillaume prided himself _in petto_ for his prudence in the matter of marriage settlements. At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
Him the son of Aeson with prudence addressed: "Good friend, assuredly with an evil word didst thou revile me, saying before them all that I was the wronger of a kindly man. The Argonautica
Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.
If you have a positive character, you are likely to believe in work ethics, responsibility, sell- esteem, determination, perseverance, prudence, self- restraint, and emotional discipline. Dr T.P.Chia
He suddenly hit the brakes and Prudence shot forward in her seat, bracing herself on the dashboard.
It was not the emotional pull that won the day, but because racial discrimination had now lost credibility in American jurisprudence. Times, Sunday Times
As the poor Flutterer, who by hard struggling has escaped from the birdlimed thorn-bush, still bears the clammy Incumbrance on his feet and wings, so am I doomed to carry about with me the sad mementos of past Imprudence and Anguish from which I have been imperfectly released. Coleridge & Southey Letters
Herbert Siegfried is a Doctor of Jurisprudence and a career diplomat. ExpelleesA Problem of a Divided Germany
Further, while this will undoubtedly cause further strain on the already-burdened budget of our southern neighbour, it may serve to draw attention to the parlous state of their fisc and perhaps lead to more prudence.
Finally, Luther was unwilling to sacrifice political prudence and practicality on the altar of biblical literalism, or to identify Christianity with sectarian withdrawal from the political sphere.
The glory of your auncestours and predecessours, acquired and wonne by sheading of so much bloud, kepte by so great prudence, conserued by so happy counsell, haue they no representation, or shew before your face? The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
But while a swagger of smug certainty plays well on television, prudence might argue for an open mind and the occasional flicker of doubt.
It would be perceived by some critics as a tax on prudence and thrift. Times, Sunday Times
They obeyed the word of Prudence with a cheerful readiness that was startlingly cherubimic. Prudence Says So
Blind acceptance of any information from Wikipedia without extensive cross referencing and independent verification is an exercise in imprudence and irresponsiblility. Heroes or Villains?
The laws which excuse, on any occasions, the ignorance of their subjects, confess their own imperfections: the civil jurisprudence, as it was abridged by Justinian, still continued a mysterious science, and a profitable trade, and the innate perplexity of the study was involved in tenfold darkness by the private industry of the practitioners. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Prudence is located at the bottommost tip of the heart -- its Tierra del Fuego/Strait of Magellan. Suzanne O'Malley: Day 14 of 29: Secrets to the Map of a Women's Heart
He had a keen awareness of the ebb and flow of history, and of the need for consistent jurisprudence, and, above all, self-restraint.
After rejecting a religious career, Sebastian took a degree in jurisprudence from the Colegio de San Ildefonso in Mexico City. Lerdo de Tejada: Jacobin to liberal elitist
While 45% say he has been prudent, 48% say he is guilty of imprudence.
SCt jurisprudence is developed with institutional media in mind; at first it seemed that the Court might not even apply the protections to nonmedia defendants. Archive 2009-04-01
The term constitution has many other significations in physics and in politics; but in jurisprudence, whenever it is applied to any act of the legislature, it invariably means a statute, law, or ordinance, which is the present case. Notes on the State of Virginia.
'Tis the insatiety of the human beasts of prey immortalized in jurisprudence, and I, Dignity, sanctify all that. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature
In it, prudence is described as an "intelligence capable, by a certain judicious method, of distinguishing good and bad; likewise the knowledge of an art is called Wisdom; and again, a well-furnished memory and experience in diverse matters is termed Wisdom. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
It was not the emotional pull that won the day, but because racial discrimination had now lost credibility in American jurisprudence. Times, Sunday Times
The term constitution has many other significations in physics and in politics; but in Jurisprudence, whenever it is applied to any act of the legislature, it invariably means a statute, law, or ordinance, which is the present case. Notes on the State of Virginia
Just look at the relative fiscal profligacy or prudence of those European countries going it alone versus those who have joined the EU. Times, Sunday Times
Fiscal prudence from politicians might sound like an electioneering mantra to some, but its a badge of honour to me.
There are also vices which are akin to them, not truly, but with a false kind of similarity, such as astuteness bears to prudence. Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas
Extreme caution or prudence, the soundest organic health, large hope and comparison and fondness for women and children, large alimentiveness and destructiveness and causality, with a perfect sense of the oneness of nature, and the propriety of the same spirit applied to human affairs -- these are called up of the float of the brain of the world to be parts of the greatest poet from his birth. Poems By Walt Whitman
This embrace of "newsworthiness," and matters of public, as opposed to private, interest, as criteria on which First Amendment protection should turn, is consistent with a recent, prominent impulse in several threads of the Court's free speech jurisprudence, such as in Dun & Bradstreet and in Bartnicki v. Balkinization
Prudence, her eyes on him, felt alarmed when she saw what must have been a twinge of pain seize his body and pass over his face. Prudence Crandall, Woman of Courage
Mainly from jurisprudence, constitutional theory, administrative law science, administrative litigation law science explains to administrative nonfeasance litigation theoretical foundation.
And though it be called prudence when the event answereth our expectation; yet in its own nature it is but presumption. Leviathan
Nevertheless the philosopher [* Andronicus; Cf.Q. 48, Obj. 1] who calls shrewdness a part of prudence, takes it for _eustochia_, in general, hence he says: "Shrewdness is a habit whereby congruities are discovered rapidly. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
Camilla wept with joy at the idea: 'Ah!; she cried,' if such should be my happy fate; if, after hearing all my imprudence, my precipitance, and want of judgment, he should voluntarily, when wholly set free, return to me ... Camilla
I.e. a court might see a single case as merely informative or possibly persuasive, but a series of similar cases might provide a basis for a larger principle (jurisprudence constante). The Volokh Conspiracy » Canadian University Restricting Graphic Posters That Compare Abortion to Genocide
The term constitution has many other significations in physics and politics,; but in jurisprudence, Notes on the State of Virginia
It involves concepts described as grounds - that is jurisprudence.
The Texas statute is sumptuary law that has no value in jurisprudence or society.
Although qualifications in medical jurisprudence have existed for decades, they are possessed by only a relatively small number of doctors. Times, Sunday Times
In ecclesiastical jurisprudence, the word precept is used: The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
Our biologists therefore stifled bathybius, perhaps with justice, certainly with prudence, and left protoplasm to its fate. Luck or Cunning?
Religious superiors cannot be spared responsibility for enforcing prudence. Seminary Boy
Expressions: redoubler d'efforts = to strive harder than ever redoubler une classe = to repeat a year or a grade, to be held back redoubler de prudence/de vigilance = to be extra careful/vigilant redoubler le chagrin de quelqu'un = to add to someone's grief Pensées
For those who know him, his ingrained indecisiveness serves as a signature to his every act; and to the uninitiated, it is explained away as cautiousness and age-inspired prudence.
One can rely on the prudence of his decisions.
To give him the greater weight, he was created a landgrave of the colony, to which dignity forty-eight thousand acres of land were unalienably annexed: but to his mortification he soon found, that the proprietary government had acquired but little firmness and stability, and, by his imprudence and rigour, fell into still greater disrespect and contempt. An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1
This is despite the fact that most of the things they have asked of government in the past have now been delivered: low inflation, fiscal prudence and an end to stop-go policies.
The right to life has been a fruitful source of environmental jurisprudence in several national jurisdictions, especially India.
But I cannot see the House of Lords' decision as some sort of cataclysm which has put a quarter of a century's family jurisprudence into antediluvian obsolescence.
The developing jurisprudence in relation to Article 6 suggests that a reasoned decision is a concomitant to a fair hearing.
A return to the traditional conservative values of non-intervention and prudence is called for.
If we act here with prudence, wisdom, and firmness, we shall not only successfully remonetize silver and bring it into general use as money in our own country, but the influence of our example will be potential among all European nations, with the possible exception of England. American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897)
Our country can do better, particularly in the area of prudence and focussed resource utilisation.
Over three years he had a chance to establish a relationship with the new president and helped to convert him to the virtues of fiscal prudence. Times, Sunday Times
You can go to the nearest police station and for sure, you will find out that the reports are full of reckless imprudence, some of which result to homicide.
His mighty "A-choon!" startled the Queen of Sheba almost as it startled Prudence. Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod
An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of gold.
Such prudence contributed to a non-confrontational celebration - or in some cases lament - of 10 years of democracy.
As Jacob told Esau, if the cattle were driven beyond their pace they would die; so we find by experience, that though with strong resolutions we may engage unto duties in such a manner as may intrench upon these outward occasions or those weaknesses, they will return, and be too hard for us, and instead of getting ground, they will drive us off from ours: so that there is prudence to be required therein. Sacramental Discourses
To her, prudence was the true method of making your fortune; good management consisted in filling your granaries with wheat, rye, and flax, and waiting for a rise at the risk of being called a monopolist, and clinging to those grain-sacks obstinately. Beatrix
After more than two centuries of American jurisprudence and millennia of human experience, a few judges and local authorities are presuming to change the most fundamental institution of civilization.
It is inconsistent with our jurisprudence, it is inconsistent with that of other common law countries.
Islamic law, and one of the leading exponents of 'kalam'-scholastic theology - and' rijal '- study of the biographies of transmitters of ahadith, the prophetic traditions,' fiqh '- jurisprudence - and WN.com - Articles related to Emirates becomes first Arab airline to operate Czech Republic route
With a bit of prudence we should be able to avoid the worst of times.
After burning up a roll of film Prudence lowered the camera and took the film out to replace it.
If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.
But it’s funny – when you give this to a (very conservative) tax prof, he hopes to see a revolution in capitation jurisprudence. The Volokh Conspiracy » Health insurance mandate as a privacy right violation
A wealthy partner risks money on the prudence of less affluent partners.
As my daughter may well do this, it seems that all my prudence and thrift will have been in vain. Times, Sunday Times
His valour, prudence, and humanity, more especially the latter quality, which shines forth strangely in contrast with the cruelty of Pizarro, ensures for him a distinction all his own among the "conquistadores" of the sixteenth century. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World
A return to the traditional conservative values of non-intervention and prudence is called for.
And PRUDENCE is nothing else but conjecture from experience, or taking signs of experience warily, that is, that the experiments from which one taketh such signs be all remembered; for else the cases are not alike, that seem so. The Elements of Law Natural and Politic
Only Richard Hooker can count as a precursor, and then merely in one limited branch of philosophy, that of jurisprudence.
This is obviously against Islam's own well-established principles of jurisprudence and legislation.
To call this graymail or blackmail is to demonstrate a fundamental misunderstanding of criminal jurisprudence.
However, more recent jurisprudence demonstrates a judicial resistance towards slavish adherence to that rule.
After the argumentation of jurisprudence authority of the doctrine of privity of contract, the text gives the wide coverage to probes into the exception to privity of contract.
True courage consists not in flying from the storms of life; but in braving and steering through them with prudence. The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton: A Novel Founded on Fact
Based on Semiology, the passage explores the influence of star spokesman in TV advertisement, with a way of jurisprudence of abstract research.
Men and women in these areas had little cause to delay marriage, and prudence had little appeal when there was no chance of ultimate independence.
Cairbré died after five years of most unprosperous royalty, and his son, the wise and prudent Morann, showed his wisdom and prudence by refusing to succeed him.
Well after a while we woke the Boston fish up & we all went home & I was feeling pretty good on acct. it being such a nice night & all the stars being out & etc. & when I got home I said Prudence guess what hapend & she says I can guess & I says Prudence I have been elect it a minit man & she says well go on up stares & sleep it off & I says sleep what off & she says stop talking so loud do you want the naybers to wake up & I says whos talking loud & she says o go to bed & I says I am talking in conversational tones & she says well you must be conversing with somebody in Boston & I says o you mean that little blond on Beecon St. & Ethen she went a 1,000,000 mi. up in the air & I seen it wasnt no use to try & tell her that the reason I was feeling good was on acct. having drank a Boston swelt hed to sleep without feeling any affects & I bet the next time I get a chanct I am going to get snooted right because a fello gets blamed just as much if he doesnt feel the affects as if he was brought home in a stuper & I was just kidding her about that blond on Beecon St. Some women dont know when they are well off Ethen & I bet that guy from Bostons Tom Duffy I mean wife wishes she was in Prudences shoes instead of her having married a man what cant holt no more than a qt. without being brought home in a stuper. A Parody Outline of History
For mental blindness, thoughtlessness and rashness pertain to imprudence, which is to be found in every sin, even as prudence is in every virtue. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
While the old woman was thus haranguing, with all the prudence that old age and experience furnish, a small bark entered the harbor, in which was an alcayde and his alguazils. Candide
Therefore fraud does not belong to craftiness which is opposed to prudence. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
For a government that prides itself on pragmatism and prudence, this is a policy that astonishes in its fecklessness and recklessness.
The seeds of Julius's courage and compelling energy, of Augustus's prudence, of the libidinousness and cruelty of Tiberius, of Caligula's folly, of Nero's artistic genius and enormous vanity, are all within me. Crome Yellow
A summary of different approaches to jurisprudence and judicial decision making among developed countries.
The maid, with a generosity and Christian principle rarely surpassed, conscious that his imprudence might be his ruin, brought him the thirty pounds, which was part of a sum of money recently left her by legacy. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs
But we still confuse strength with rigidity, which is of questionable prudence as the percentage of Americans who say they are Christians decreases. Carolyn Bucior: Kim Simac vs. Clarence Darrow: How Wisconsin Recalls and Miss USA Mirror Scopes Monkey Trial
Common prudence dictates that we do what we can to cool the planet, even in the absence of absolute proof.
A little generous prudence, a little forbearance of one another, and some grain of charity might win all these diligences to join, and unite in one general and brotherly search after truth; could we but forgo this prelatical tradition of crowding free consciences and Areopagitica
Dear Prudence would dictate staying put and waiting for air to come and retrieve him.
This set the stage for the one major blemish of imprudence on the credit union subeconomy. CounterPunch
Born in Lisbon, he studied history, philosophy, and jurisprudence at the University of Lisbon.
The earlier signals which hinted at the emergence of fiscal prudence, quickly faded out.
High domestic savings encouraged financial institutions to lend beyond the limits of prudence.
Sara says: he hopes to see a revolution in capitation jurisprudence. The Volokh Conspiracy » Health insurance mandate as a privacy right violation
Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.
A strong argument may also be made that the pandectist jurisprudence of Continental Europe presents an example of the use of doctrinal expositions as primary sources of law.
That is an example of prudence and micromanagement run wild. Times, Sunday Times
These solutions should be made with a great deal of care and prudence, as the sucrate of lime is an accelerator of very great energy. Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891
Flight Lieutenant Prudence Buckton said it was great to be out of her office and in a field environment.
Life is in favor of those who are blessed with emotional intelligence, self-restraint, prudence, and positive behavior. Dr T.P.Chia
The 2,300 page Dodd-Frank financial reform law mandates a slew of new rules and regulatory bodies but does virtually nothing to reinstate old-fashioned borrower-by-borrower banking prudence that is essential in a dynamic, unregimented economy. The Trouble With Robo-Lending
Harper's Weekly — happily no one can now prove them on me, for even at that jejune period I had the prudence to use an anonym — the Harpers, luckily for me, declined to publish a volume of my poems. Marse Henry : an autobiography,
Saints must have lived an exemplary life, displaying the virtues of prudence, temperance, fortitude and justice, as well as showing faith, hope and charity.
Today, white - collar crime has become a legal terminology in sociology, criminology and criminal jurisprudence.
Want of prudence, as well as piety, hath brought men into great inconveniencys; but he that is well stored with both, seldom is so insnared. Anne Bradstreet and Her Time
It would be wrong to jeopardise public safety in the name of financial prudence. Times, Sunday Times
We must convince our legislators to place roadblocks in the almost criminal misuse of American jurisprudence.
The destruction of the pension system and the reliance on supposedly "off-balance sheet" PPP and PFI are more reminiscent of a chav storecard spending spree than so-called Prudence. Brown's Reputation is Unravelling
IF skies remain clear, the air warm, and pollen and nectar abound in the flowers, the workers, through a kind of forgetful indulgence, or over-scrupulous prudence perhaps, will for a short time longer endure the importunate, disastrous presence of the males. The Life of the Bee
Education and knowledge without hard work do not necessarily guarantee success, and imprudence, indiscipline and emotional impulsivity contribute to failure. Dr T.P.Chia
Plus Scalia would look mighty fine straddling the guns of a Navy battleship in that fishnet thong getup from the "If I Could Turn Back Time" video (which is also a anthem wholly apropos of Scalia's jurisprudence). Balkinization
Bernard Mac Mahon (1737-47), then Bishop of Clogher, who is described as a prelate remarkable for zeal, charity, prudence, and sound doctrine. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.

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