---

• n  discretion in practical affairs
• n  knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress

• But he described his pet theory with something less than prudence.
• Forecaster Michael Evans mines miIlions from controversyIn the uncertain world of economic forecasting, where most commentary is clothed in the blue serge prose of prudence,.
• His lesson did not necessarily make us cowardsmany college students openly denounced McCarthybut it did teach us the value of prudence.

• discretion
• discreetness
• circumspection

• imprudence

News & Articles

---

• Hassan Rouhani is Iran's next president after appealing to tradition, reform
  Iranian centrist candidate Hassan Rouhani won the Islamic republic's presidential election Saturday after campaigning on a "hope and prudence" platform in which he appealed to traditional conservatives and reform-minded voters alike.
  June 15, 2013 - CNN
• Iran election
  Iranian centrist candidate Hassan Rouhani won the Islamic republic's presidential election Saturday after campaigning on a "hope and prudence" platform in which he appealed to traditional conservatives and reform-minded voters alike.
  June 15, 2013 - CNN
• Hassan Rouhani is Iran's next president
  Iranian centrist candidate Hassan Rouhani won the Islamic republic's presidential election Saturday after campaigning on a "hope and prudence" platform in which he appealed to traditional conservatives and reform-minded voters alike. Rouhani spoke of reforms without threatening Iran's supreme leader or its institutions of which he is product. The former national security council chief promised ...
  June 15, 2013 - KSAT San Antonio

Quotes

---

• Henry Paulson in Bloomberg
  As awareness of Iran's deceptive behavior has grown, many banks around the world have decided as a matter of prudence and integrity that Iran's business is simply not worth the risk,Paulson said. "Reputable institutions do not want to be...
• George Osborne in Telegraph.co.uk
  He told MPs: "With this unavoidable Budget we've had to increase taxes. We've had to pay the bills of past irresponsibility. We've had to relearn the virtue of financial prudence. But in doing so we have ensured that the burden is fairly shared....
• Sarah Palin in International Herald Tribune
  We're more prepared than other states because of the prudence there,Palin said recently. "We crossed that first hurdle."