What's the difference between advisable and prudent?

Advisable


Definition:

  • (a.) Proper to be advised or to be done; expedient; prudent.
  • (a.) Ready to receive advice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Acceptance of less than ideal donors is ill-advised even though rejection of such donors conflicts with the current shortage of organs.
  • (2) Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels.” The recommendation follows advice last year that a vegetarian diet was better for the planet from Lord Nicholas Stern , former adviser to the Labour government on the economics of climate change.
  • (3) Adviser to Solidarity, then member of parliament in 1989.
  • (4) Even though the administration of demethylchlortetracycline did not produce significant decreases in the glomerular filtration rate or renal blood flow in our patient, it is advisable to control the renal function in individuals treated with this drug since it may on occasion determine renal insufficiency.
  • (5) Anna Mazzola, a civil liberties lawyer who advises the National Union of Journalists and whom I consulted, told me that in general if police can view anyone's images, they can only do so in "very limited circumstances".
  • (6) If we reach the point where I believe our advisers should accompany Iraqi troops on attacks against specific [Isis] targets, I will recommend that to the president,” Dempsey said, preferring the term “close combat advising”.
  • (7) For Bush Sr, the dilemma is all the more agonising as some of the White House advisers he now criticises are former employees he bequeathed to his son.
  • (8) It is the way these packages are constructed by a small cabal of longstanding advisers, drawing on the mechanics of game theory, that has driven the exponential increases in value over the past two decades.
  • (9) Appropriate vitamin E supplementation is, therefore, advisable for all patients with chronic fat malabsorption who have low serum vitamin E concentrations.
  • (10) At a private meeting last Tuesday, Hunt assured Cameron and the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, that he had not been aware that his special adviser, Adam Smith, was systematically leaking information and advice to News Corp about its bid for BSkyB.
  • (11) Combining drugs may only occasionally be advisable to supplement a desired effect or to attenuate an unwanted one.
  • (12) Lisette van Vliet, a senior policy adviser to the Health and Environment Alliance, blamed pressure from the UK and German ministries and industry for delaying public protection from chronic diseases and environmental damage.
  • (13) Results are discussed in relation to the time of treatment and the pathogenic agent involved, and a classification of the antibiotics into three groups is proposed: recommended; not advised; not sufficiently studied.
  • (14) The experience illustrates the danger of assuming that all pneumococcus peritonitis is the primary variety and the advisability of routine Gram stain of the peritoneal fluid at operation in order to select the appropriate antibiotic.
  • (15) Within 4 months of Holter monitoring, the advised coronary angiography was performed in 77% of the patients with variable threshold angina and in 89% of the patients with fixed threshold angina (p less than 0.05).
  • (16) The problem is that too many people in this place just get advised by people who are just like them, so there’s groupthink, and they have no sense of what it’s like out there.” Is he talking about his predecessor?
  • (17) Advisable in a first time for the feeding of patients with palliative treatment, we propose PEG for patients in position to have a long and difficult rehabilitation of swallowing.
  • (18) But Detre declined to comment on a report on the Guido Fawkes website that Westminster Advisers, run by the Labour supporter and former councillor Dominic Church, organised a cross-party meeting at the end of 2010 which was shown the Crosby Textor research .
  • (19) The independent Low Pay Commission will advise on the path future increases should take, taking into account the state of the economy.
  • (20) Abe Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League, a vigorous defender of Israel, called the speech “ill-advised”.

Prudent


Definition:

  • (a.) Sagacious in adapting means to ends; circumspect in action, or in determining any line of conduct; practically wise; judicious; careful; discreet; sensible; -- opposed to rash; as, a prudent man; dictated or directed by prudence or wise forethought; evincing prudence; as, prudent behavior.
  • (a.) Frugal; economical; not extravagant; as, a prudent woman; prudent expenditure of money.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Based on these observations, the authors think it prudent to remove such dressings before performing leukocyte imaging.
  • (2) The potential benefits in terms of more rapid return to work, maintenance of the patient's psychosocial integrity, and modification of natural history of the disease make the institution of a cardiac rehabilitation program a prudent activity for a practitioner, clinic, or hospital.
  • (3) Regardless of the exact dose per fraction chosen, it seems prudent to use relatively low doses per fraction initially to maximize the chance of detecting any benefit inherent in the use of neutrons, before exploring increased doses for reasons of improved cost-effectiveness.
  • (4) One would be prudent to avoid marijuana during pregnancy, just as one would do with most other drugs not essential to life or well-being.
  • (5) It seems prudent to avoid hypertriglyceridemia secondary to intravenous fat emulsions, as this alone is a cause of pancreatitis, albeit uncommon, in patients with abnormalities of triglyceride metabolism.
  • (6) For the present, prudent clinical practice should include avoidance of whole blood, fresh frozen plasma, and platelet transfusions and greater reliance on autologous blood transfusions.
  • (7) The author suggests that the most prudent course would be to direct health care providers to accept family decisions unless it appears that the family is acting out of ignorance or in bad faith, in which case the decision would be referred to a hospital ethicist or ethics committee and then--only if there were good grounds to suspect ignorance or bad faith--to judicial review.
  • (8) Based on the currently available data, it seems prudent to diagnose diabetes mellitus only if fasting hyperglycemia is present.
  • (9) From what we know about food adequacy, preparation, and storage, the notion that the postulated "primitive" diet was generally adequate, safe, and prudent can be rejected.
  • (10) Taking out such a deal was, in their view, tantamount to getting into bed with the devil – and certainly out of the question for a prudent financial journalist.
  • (11) It may be prudent to obtain a drug history and urine screen for cocaine before instituting indomethacin therapy for preterm labor or polyhydramnios.
  • (12) Because of the risks of increasing late effects, either due to direct thermal damage or thermo-radiosensitization of normal tissues, it is not prudent to proceed with such testing in sites where there is a risk of excessive normal tissue heating.
  • (13) In such cases especially prudent care is required, for the prognosis may be poor.
  • (14) The National Cancer Institute (NCI) believes that the potential for dietary changes to reduce the risk of cancer is considerable and that the existing scientific data provide evidence that is sufficiently consistent to warrant prudent interim dietary guidelines that will promote good health and reduce the risk of some types of cancer.
  • (15) Three cases of primary adenocarcinoma of the Fallopian tube have been treated at the Gynecology Department of Hospital A. C. Camargo, Fundación A. Prudente, São Paulo, between 1972-1987.
  • (16) For this reason it recommends that banks provide a separate set of accounts drawn up on "prudent principles".
  • (17) The incorporation of interference into niche theory clarifies the competitive phenomenon of unstable equilibrium points, excess density compensation on islands, competitive avoidance by escape in time and space, the persistence of the "prudent predator," and the magnitude of the difference between the size of a species' fundamental niche and its realized niche.
  • (18) It increases in relative importance along with improvement in socioeconomic and environmental conditions and in association with prudent lifestyle.
  • (19) As drug-induced erythroid hypoplasia typically occurs after a relatively long period of dosing, it may be prudent in certain individuals to monitor the CBC at approximately bimonthly intervals after initiation of therapy.
  • (20) These results revealed specific shortcomings in the dietary habits of the CORIS population and emphasised the need for changes necessary to meet the requirements for a prudent diet.