How to Use prudential in a Sentence
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Shadow lenders, meanwhile, should face the same prudential rules as banks.
—The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
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And, even setting aside the strategic rationale for such a move, there are good prudential reasons for it too.
—Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 19 Aug. 2020
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No one of good will wants people to remain poor, but how best to relieve poverty is a matter for prudential judgment.
—WSJ, 26 July 2022
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The bubble issue can’t be fobbed off to macro-prudential policy, either.
—Douglas Carr, National Review, 21 July 2021
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For prudential reasons, other states might have opted to hold off until 2028.
—ABC News, 6 May 2026
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Christian duty may not necessarily mean a no-fly zone — that’s a matter of prudential debate.
—Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 21 Mar. 2022
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Most of those who disagree with his prudential judgment about these strictures on normal life hope to avoid causing others needless suffering.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 26 Mar. 2020
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Two pro-life voters who are equally concerned about justice for the unborn may reach different prudential judgments about which candidate to vote for.
—Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, 1 Oct. 2020
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Others don’t expect a rate move, but an expansion of macro-prudential measures to maintain stability.
—Viriya Singgih, Bloomberg.com, 28 May 2018
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Like all prudential judgments, a judge’s analysis of stare decisis factors will surely spur debate and criticism.
—Adam J. White, WSJ, 23 May 2022
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Policy makers sought to avoid further inflaming house prices by using macro-prudential policies that have helped slow property prices in Sydney.
—Michael Heath, Bloomberg.com, 26 Oct. 2017
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The letter’s final point urges clarity around the prudential regulator that would oversee stablecoins.
—Leo Schwartz, Fortune Crypto, 9 Mar. 2023
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The repo market’s wobbles have revealed not only banks’ huge appetite for cash, but the unforeseen consequences of post-crisis prudential regulation.
—The Economist, 2 Nov. 2019
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That is, the Biden Justice Department’s special counsel ignored the prudential meat-and-potatoes guidance.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 13 Jan. 2024
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The case has triggered independent reviews by the securities and prudential regulators into culture, pay and governance at the bank.
—Robb M. Stewart, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2017
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Some of their functions, including drafting key regulations and prudential oversight, will move to the PBOC.
—Bloomberg.com, 19 Mar. 2018
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Beyond prudential politics, though, Pence has spent most of his political career aligned with Roy Moore as a stalwart of the Christian right.
—Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 26 Sep. 2017
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Third, the court disregards prudential barriers that restrict suits against the executive — a role exactly opposite to the one that the judiciary usually plays.
—Josh Blackman, National Review, 11 Oct. 2017
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The president will be acquitted for a host of reasons, from partisanship to a prudential judgment that his actions don’t warrant removal with a presidential election 10 months away.
—Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2020
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With its focus on micro-prudential supervision, the EU risks overlooking macro-fragility and macro-prudential bottlenecks.
—Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
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Women account for only three of the central bank’s 16 executive directors, one of its six governors, and one of its 12 prudential regulation committee members.
—David Meyer, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2017
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The necessity of prudential judgment in some cases is sometimes exploited to attenuate the general obligation of solidarity.
—Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, 1 Oct. 2020
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Finally, Barr called for federal prudential regulation and supervision of stablecoins, a form of crypto tokens that are typically pegged to an underlying asset.
—Leo Schwartz, Fortune Crypto, 9 Mar. 2023
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Nationally expanding credit unions will still need to meet stringent prudential standards, including capital, liquidity and enterprise-grade risk and compliance requirements.
—Ravi Gedela, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
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The prudential case against impeachment and for democratic reform is all the Porta Potties on Staten Island soccer fields, multiplied by a a thousand other soccer fields in a hundred other places.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2019
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But for now, put it down as a win for old-fashioned Boston fiscal conservatism, the prudential spirit that created early banks, the first mutual funds, and the titanic money market funds of Fidelity Investments.
—Aaron Pressman, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2022
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Such stare decisis considerations are ultimately prudential judgments.
—Adam J. White, WSJ, 23 May 2022
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These doctrines seem to reflect judges’ own prudential view rather than the more concrete foundation of, say, the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946, which set the basic rules for agency process and judicial review.
—Adam J. White, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2020
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Typically, critics of the Jim Crow relic invoke various historical facts (some of which have apparently been lost on, or willfully ignored by, certain critical members of the Senate), as well as an array of practical and prudential bases.
—Thomas Geoghegan, The New Republic, 13 Jan. 2022
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The dynamic with prudential regulators, which periodically examine financial institutions on their anti-money-laundering policies and procedures, is another unknown.
—Dylan Tokar, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2021
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