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/pɹuːdˈɛnʃəl/
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[ US /pɹuˈdɛnʃəɫ/ ]
[ US /pɹuˈdɛnʃəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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arising from or characterized by prudence especially in business matters
he abstained partly for prudential reasons
How To Use prudential In A Sentence
- I started him in the mortgage loan business when we got the Prudential Insurance Company account in 1919 and he was my subman down in Florence. Oral History Interview with Alester G. Furman Jr., January 6, 1976. Interview B-0019. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
- The study shows that the females have a prudential attitude to divorce, and a tolerant attitude to outside marriage love, and they reject sex behavior before marriage.
- While monetary policy is relatively easy to understand, with macroprudential policy no one knows how big these capital surcharges will have to be to restrain "overexuberance". Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
- This strength, this invincibility, this unconquerable identification caused the Prudential Insurance Company in 1896 to use the Rock as their brand to symbolize a defense from all obstacles.
- If we do that in the case of Bosnia, it is not so difficult to understand why a middle course of muddling through was originally chosen: it is the response that one would expect from any statesman or stateswoman who had a genuine desire to safeguard humanitarian values but no compelling national interest to become directly involved in a conflict and persuasive prudential reasons to stay out.
- Next to him, Harriet Miers is a jurisprudential giant. Law
- The figures were expected by most experts, since May was the first month that the new prudential and restrictive monetary measures were implemented.
- As I understand it it can all be sorted out, but you are — I suspect unintentionally and in good faith — offering a bit of a straw man due to your not distinguishing a few key concepts, such as prudentialism versus constitutional judgment, empathy for a legal injustice versus sympathy resulting in bias, and a judge versus a justice. The Volokh Conspiracy » Legal Ambiguity, Empathy, and the Role of Judicial Power:
- As to which concrete punishments should be annexed to which crimes, the judgment is a prudential one left for public authority to determine.
- These include shaping the long-term jurisprudential reputations of Roberts and his colleagues. Kentucky.com: Homepage