Mr Osborne believes that Britain's reputation for fiscal prudence depends on cutting public spending aggressively.
In an unusual display of sloth caution on my part, however, I held back out of prudence.
At 17, Daughter Sophie sprang her surprise engagement on him, and Freud only inquired with middle-class prudence about the young man's financial condition.
We shall need all our qualities ? every quality that Britain and its people possess ? prudence in counsel, daring in action, tenacity in purpose, courage in defeat, moderation in victory; in all things faith.
What, then, are the limits of wisdom and prudence?
When Della raeched home her intoxication gave way a little to prudence and raeson.
In contrast, Europe's past vices now seemed like virtues: rigidity recast as solidity, risk-aversion as prudence.
Was this a missed opportunity to rid America of a piece of job-destroying over-regulation, or was it an exercise in judicial prudence?
But there was still something lurking behind, of which prudence forbad the disclosure.
During the 1990s, fast growth and fiscal prudence allowed countries from Ireland to Canada to cut their debt levels sharply.
For Europe, prudence no longer consists in the art, defended by the ancients, of finding one's way within an uncertain story.
After all, prudence does not ordinarily make its way onto any list of revolutionary virtues.
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.
REMEMBER when a bank manager was the epitome of prudence?
Profligacy is the new prudence. But in Asia, where saving has long been a self-evident virtue, that message has yet to catch on.
Abu Dhabi will insist on greater prudence and Dubai's go-getting rulers may also now feel defeated.
Could the Epicurean will hostile to pessimism be merely the prudence of a suffering man?
Q. Has the response to the crisis contradicted the usual World Bank prescriptions for fiscal prudence and macroeconomic balance?
But prudence can't tell me what sentence to write next.
Others must weigh the costs of slower growth against the benefits of greater prudence, particularly the reduced risk of a sudden jump in bond yields and the prospect of lower public debt later.
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