How To Use Prudently In A Sentence
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The need to apply appropriate military capability prudently is paramount.
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A woman might well conceal her condition for four or five months and procure an abortion, at the actual climax of which the abortionist might be prudently absent.
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Union that the capital resource of commercial imposts, which is the most convenient branch of revenue, can be prudently improved to a much greater extent under federal than under State regulation, and of course will render it less necessary to recur to more inconvenient methods; and with this further advantage, that as far as there may be any real difficulty in the exercise of the power of internal taxation, it will impose a disposition to greater care in the choice and arrangement of the means; and must naturally tend to make it a fixed point of policy in the national administration to go as far as may be practicable in making the luxury of the rich tributary to the public treasury, in order to diminish the necessity of those impositions which might create dissatisfaction in the poorer and most numerous classes of the society.
The Federalist Papers
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What more reasonable than that this should be done, while living witnesses may yet be called, to prove or disprove the several allegations and assertions; since, in a few years more, such witnesses may be as much wanting as to prevent a canonization, which is therefore prudently procrastinated for above an age?
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 10 Historical Writings
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Experts are at hand to advise you on how to put aside a little every month and invest it prudently, so that the little pile slowly grows into an appreciable amount within a few years.
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At the same time, giving way to a just though prudently dissimulated resentment, she made a vow that she would never enter the gates of Castle Brady while the lady of the house remained alive within them.
The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
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Was it prudently considered that the dullest of critics can read only as long as his eyes are open? and that the function of judge must incessantly bring under his cognisance papaverous volumes, with which only a super-human endowment of vigilance could hope successfully to contend? so that the goddess is driven, by the necessity of the game, to admit within the circuit of her somnolent sway, a virtue to which she is naturally and peculiarly hostile?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845
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He therefore prudently forbore, that is to say, as much as he could forbear, to show any signs of his attachment to Rose, till he had full opportunity of forming a decisive judgment of her character.
Tales and Novels — Volume 02
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It's all a matter of good, solid business practice; a matter of turning a spiritual profit and of responding prudently to spiritual blackmail.
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The inhabitants prudently declared for Caesar, with the result that the town was immediately granted the status of an Italiote city (oppidum Latinum), later to be upgraded to municipium.
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Legally, an executor is a fiduciary, who is expected to act prudently and be impartial.
New Heirs Face Confusing Tax Choice
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imprudently, he downed tools and ran home to make his wife happy
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Anything worthy to be calld statesmanship in the Old World, I should say, among the advanced students, adepts, or men of any brains, does not debate to-day whether to hold on, attempting to lean back and monarchize, or to look forward and democratizebut how, and in what degree and part, most prudently to democratize.
Democratic Vistas: Paras. 30–59. Collect
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Barclays said it was lending prudently and had tight controls in place.
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He works imprudently and obtrusively, and is never a stable man.
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Thus, the prudent practice, or praxis, of memory produced ethical behavior; by using the memory as an ethical repository and guide, an individual would be equipped to act prudently and ethically.
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A host of stabilities which provide a background of regularity within which life can be rationally and prudently led are jeopardized ...
Archive 2009-02-01
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The plaintiff, wishing to have monies now and not in two years' time, prudently accepted the settlement figure.
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The court and all those able to move into the countryside prudently did so, as the disease was less virulent there.
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Brandark's finery had astounded everyone, and some of those who'd prudently withdrawn from his vicinity had been lured back when he uncased his balalaika and began strumming.
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Brown's purpose is to meet as far as prudently possible the public's apparently unquenchable thirst for ever more spending on the National Health Service.
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The _accident_, I use the term philosophically, not popularly, the accident of a man's being married, or, in other words, having entered imprudently into a barbarous and absurd civil contract, cannot alter the nature of things.
Tales and Novels — Volume 08
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About the same time, Mr. Sparrman, who had imprudently gone out alone to botanize, was assaulted by two men, who stripped him of every thing which he had about him, excepting his trowsers, and struck him again and again with his own hanger, though happily without doing him any harm.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook
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But as the faith, which is not founded on revelation, must remain destitute of any firm assurance, the disciple of Plato imprudently relapsed into the habits of vulgar superstition; and the popular and philosophic notion of the Deity seems to have been confounded in the practice, the writings, and even in the mind of Julian.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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I had allotted my own bedroom for necking, prudently removing both the bed and the key, and taken both myself and my typewriter into my son's bedroom.
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A bigger rise of 3-4C — the smallest increase we can prudently expect to follow inaction — would parch continents, turning farmland into desert.
Archive 2009-12-01
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Anything worthy to be call'd statesmanship in the Old World, I should say, among the advanced students, adepts, or men of any brains, does not debate to-day whether to hold on, attempting to lean back and monarchize, or to look forward and democratize -- but _how_, and in what degree and part, most prudently to democratize.
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy
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It was a very hard seat which Mr. Jeffreys had vacated, and her ladyship, after sitting there over two hours, nodding asleep a good part of the time, began to feel internal sinkings and flutterings which presaged what she called a "swound," and necessitated recourse to a crystal flask of strong waters which she had prudently brought in her muff.
London Pride Or When the World Was Younger
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'I must insist,' he called vainly after the doctor, who prudently circled about the house and waited a quarter of an hour as he sat upon the wall, eavesdropping on the conversation of the two young people.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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Anything worthy to be call'd statesmanship in the Old World, I should say, among the advanced students, adepts, or men of any brains, does not debate to-day whether to hold on, attempting to lean back and monarchize, or to look forward and democratize -- but how, and in what degree and part, most prudently to democratize.
Collect ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose
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Whilst people may blame these Asian economies for borrowing excessively and '. ' imprudently '.
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M'Carthy prudently hesitated either to arouse his loyalty or disturb the tranquility of his family, and after joining him in a tumbler of punch, or what O'Driscol termed his nightcap, he retired to bed, where, however, he could not for a considerable time prevent himself from ruminating, with a good deal of seriousness, upon the extraordinary interview he had had with the friendly stranger.
The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
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But no outside help materialized and after a few days he prudently took refuge across the border in Milan.
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She would have liked to express her opinion of his girlfriend, but prudently refrained.
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Having thus completed their scheme, they prudently destroyed the original from which they compiled their scriptures, and sending out missionaries to all parts of the Empire commissioned them to preach salvation only to the Gentile rabblement and to the Jews.
Astral Worship
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The new castellan conducted himself so well and prudently than in less than fourteen days he wasted all the revenue of his castellany for three whole years.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction
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Our Allies have prudently contented themselves with fighting stubborn rearguard actions, but have made no attempt to cling too long to a salient which had become dangerous.
Times, Sunday Times
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Meredith, bearing in mind Harriet's warning that this horse might kick, prudently moved away a little.
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We shall administer it prudently with foresight and in the best interests of the people.
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So why had the men spent the night in an abandoned croft, rather than organizing their trip more prudently?
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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The quantity of taxes to be paid by the community must be the same in either case; with this advantage, if the provision is to be made by the Union that the capital resource of commercial imposts, which is the most convenient branch of revenue, can be prudently improved to a much greater extent under federal than under State regulation, and of course will render it less necessary to recur to more inconvenient methods; and with this further advantage, that as far as there may be any real difficulty in the exercise of the power of internal taxation, it will impose a disposition to greater care in the choice and arrangement of the means; and must naturally tend to make it a fixed point of policy in the national administration to go as far as may be practicable in making the luxury of the rich tributary to the public treasury, in order to diminish the necessity of those impositions which might create dissatisfaction in the poorer and most numerous classes of the society.
The Federalist Papers
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If the jealous caprice of power had disappointed his expectations, if he had prudently declined the paths of greatness, the employment of the same talents in studious solitude would have placed beyond the reach of kings his present happiness and his immortal fame.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Ireland has prudently and effectively used the resources provided by the union.
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All this plan does is prudently, and wisely, reorder the use of existing debt to capture economies from lower interest rates and lower construction bids....
Updated: Conservation groups oppose McDonnell's transportation plan
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Since they prudently did not get married, the situation seems to have been accepted with equanimity by the King and Archbishop Lanfranc.
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I want to be convinced the council acted prudently and want to be assured members' wishes were implemented by officers.
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The Professor, as well as his chisel, had prudently brought a small bottle of oil, and eventually was able to make the key turn in the lock, and they found that the box was in two compartments, one entirely filled with gold pieces, and the other containing some smaller heavy object enwound with silk.
Halcyone
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Unless there is some liability cap on the rapaciousness of these individuals, the drug companies cannot prudently go forward.
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Ja’afar had also acted generously but imprudently in abetting the escape of Yahya bin Abdillah, Sayyid and Alide, for whom the Caliph had commanded confinement in a close dark dungeon: when charged with disobedience the Wazir had made full confession and Harun had (they say) exclaimed, “Thou hast done well!” but was heard to mutter, “Allah slay me an I slay thee not.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Like other empires of the past century, it has chosen to live not prudently, in peace and prosperity, but as a massive military power athwart an angry, resistant globe.
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They are accounted one of the most ancient clans in the Highlands, and it is certain they were a people of original Celtic descent, and occupied at one period very extensive possessions in Perthshire and Argyleshire, which they imprudently continued to hold by the coir a glaive, that is, the right of the sword.
Rob Roy
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Our Allies have prudently contented themselves with fighting stubborn rearguard actions, but have made no attempt to cling too long to a salient which had become dangerous.
Times, Sunday Times
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After discreet soundings, they prudently abandoned the idea, which would have involved a major encroachment upon judicial independence.
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They cannot judge in any cause prudently and conscientiously, till they have complete knowledge and information of both the substantials and circumstantials of all those cases that are brought before them; they must not judge blindly, or by an implicit faith, &c., but by their own light.
The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
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After eating his usual copious breakfast, he had imprudently asked the waiter for a Russian paper; and, as he read, and sipped his kummel, which he found a little insipid and almost made him regret the vodka of his native land, his eyes fell upon a letter from Odessa, in which there was a detailed description of the execution of three nihilists, two of them gentlemen.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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Used prudently, advanced hybrid or bio-engineered crop strains could make a potentially significant contribution to third world agriculture.
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Used prudently, advanced hybrid or bio-engineered crop strains could make a potentially significant contribution to third world agriculture.
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If you have seen him, you might have remarked with what devotion and circumspectness he wards and watcheth it: with what care he keeps it: how fervently he holds it: how prudently he gobbets it: with what affection he breaks it: and with what diligence he sucks it.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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For at such times, when he found his martial spirit waxing hot within him, he would prudently sally forth into the fields, and lugging out his trusty sabre, of full two flemish ells in length, would lay about him most lustily, decapitating cabbages by platoons — hewing down whole phalanxes of sunflowers, which he termed gigantic
A History of New York
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After discreet soundings, they prudently abandoned the idea, which would have involved a major encroachment upon judicial independence.
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But as in roses we must beware of the venomous flies called cantharides; so must we take heed of the calumnies and envy lying hid under smooth and well-couched phrases and expressions, lest we imprudently entertain absurd and false opinions of the most excellent and greatest cities and men of Greece.
Essays and Miscellanies
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Her husband -- ten years deceased -- had been a 'moulder'; he earned on an average between three and four pounds a week, and was so prudently disposed that, for the last decade of his life, he made it a rule never to spend a farthing of his wages.
The Nether World
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Jack has been hallowing and is making all the noises he can think of, till he has got a cold too and is I suppose so hoarse that he cannot [word obscured by seal] so he, very prudently, holds his tongue.
Letter 322
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When curiosity overtakes me, I scoop the parcel into a glass and prudently cover it with a dinner plate.
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This waie beyng well and prudently governed, I have thought meete to imitate, sending afore the light horsemen, as exploratours of the Countrie: Then havyng fower maine battailes I would make them to marche in araie, and every one with their carriages folowyng theim.
Machiavelli, Volume I
