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 -
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 -
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 -
The bubble issue can’t be fobbed off to macro-prudential policy, either.
— Douglas Carr, National Review, 21 July 2021 -
Sometimes the reasons for this are prudential: Betting against a bubble can, after all, be very expensive.
— Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 15 Sep. 2020 -
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 -
Some of their functions, including drafting key regulations and prudential oversight, will move to the PBOC.
— Bloomberg.com, 19 Mar. 2018 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
As any observer can see, a pattern is developing: What Biden thinks is prudential diplomacy, Putin reads as weakness.
— Tim Morrison, National Review, 14 June 2021 -
Prudential’s asset-management unit, which includes M&G and Eastspring, saw external net inflows of 5.7 billion ponds in the quarter.
— Oliver Suess, Bloomberg.com, 18 May 2017 -
Others don’t expect a rate move, but an expansion of macro-prudential measures to maintain stability.
— Viriya Singgih, Bloomberg.com, 28 May 2018 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
The letter’s final point urges clarity around the prudential regulator that would oversee stablecoins.
— Leo Schwartz, Fortune Crypto, 9 Mar. 2023 -
To this moral message is added a prudential one: As the transition away from fossil fuels gathers pace, new fossil fuel projects become economically risky propositions.
— Richard Denniss, Fortune, 30 June 2018 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
For stablecoin legislation, FSOC suggested a comprehensive federal prudential framework that also addresses market integrity, investor and consumer protections and payment risks.
— Jason Brett, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022 -
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 -
Such stare decisis considerations are ultimately prudential judgments.
— Adam J. White, WSJ, 23 May 2022
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