What's the difference between cautious and fabian?

Cautious


Definition:

  • (a.) Attentive to examine probable effects and consequences of acts with a view to avoid danger or misfortune; prudent; circumspect; wary; watchful; as, a cautious general.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a climate in which medical staffs are being sued as a result of their decisions in peer review activities, hospitals' administrative and medical staffs are becoming more cautious in their approach to medical staff privileging.
  • (2) Since the start of this week, markets have been more cautious, with bond yields in Spain reaching their highest levels in four months on Tuesday amid concern about the scale of the austerity measures being imposed by the government and fears that the country might need a bailout.
  • (3) He looks set to become a stronger leader than his cautious predecessor, Hu Jintao, but he is no radical reformer, experts say.
  • (4) Cautious fluid administration and observation for cardiopulmonary deterioration are crucial in management of the critically ill, high-risk group of HELLP syndrome patients with large-volume ascites.
  • (5) Ready to be fleeced and swamped, I wandered cautiously along Laugavegur past the lovely independent shops, the clean, friendly streets and ended up in a fun hipsterish bar called the Lebowski, where they serve Tuborg and the craft burgers are named things like The Walter (I ordered The Nihilist).
  • (6) Banks have become particularly cautious of money transfer services such as Western Union , which are perceived as particularly open to abuse.
  • (7) Merkel is above all a cautious politician who recognises the limits of her power.
  • (8) But providers are cautious about participating in the Essential Access Community Hospital (EACH) program until final rules are published.
  • (9) The chancellor deliberately made cautious assumptions for the deficit in the budget, but the 5.6% contraction in the economy has blown an even bigger hole in the public finances than feared in April.
  • (10) Elderly listeners exhibited less cautious response criteria than did younger listeners.
  • (11) Cautious welcome for changes DAC’s decisions have had a mixed reception.
  • (12) Green groups were hostile or reacted cautiously to the report.
  • (13) Darling, one of the Cabinet's Eeyores, took a more cautious view but even he has been surprised by the length, depth and breadth of the crisis.
  • (14) The test must therefore be applied cautiously to seronegative animals.
  • (15) Only selected samples were analyzed in 1973; therefore, these figures should be used only cautiously as trend data.
  • (16) Yet the mood on Friday night among the hundreds of (very young) party workers and activists was cautious.
  • (17) Cautious conclusion should advise to use Collins solution when there has not been a long warm ischemia.
  • (18) Interpretation must be cautious, because these analyses are based on relatively few cases and on single 24-h urine samples.
  • (19) The cautious study began with small extramarginal skin excisions and progressed gradually via moderate sized juxtamarginal excisions of skin and orbicularis lamella to full-thickness margin-inclusive excisions.
  • (20) But had it been couched in "more cautious terms or less certain terms may not have been capable of criticism at all".

Fabian


Definition:

  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the manner of, the Roman general, Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus; cautious; dilatory; avoiding a decisive contest.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
  • (2) A report by the Fabian Society calls on the opposition to publish a business charter outlining what firms could expect from a Labour government and say that it plans to work in coalition with the private sector.
  • (3) Jack Colback, Calum Chambers, Danny Rose and Fabian Delph are included in the the 22-man party for the friendly at Wembley and European Championship qualifier in Basel.
  • (4) Labour is too big to fail, say the Fabians: that is, the electoral system prevents it from being replaced as the main opposition party.
  • (5) Speaking at a Fabian Society gathering at the weekend, Lord Mandelson was typically and disarmingly frank.
  • (6) But the next real opportunity would fall to USA , Jozy Altidore running onto an Fabian Johnson cross that had evaded its intended target, Michael Bradley, in the middle of the box.
  • (7) Fabian Delph’s Manchester City move shows money talks louder than ever Read more “I think 10 years ago or five years ago every Chelsea supporters would say: ‘I can’t see Chelsea win a title without Frank Lampard.’ And Chelsea won the title without one of the three best players of the last 10 years and we did it.
  • (8) He recalls as a young Financial Times journalist he first addressed a Fabian conference in 1992 at Ruskin College, Oxford just after losing the 1992 election.
  • (9) This figure was apparently taken from Fabian society research into potential 2020 target seats, though Mason intends to publish his own analysis of marginal seats soon .
  • (10) Lord Cooper is a Tory peer and former director of strategy to David Cameron Marcus Roberts of the Fabian Society: ‘After the Trident drama has died down, the serious defence questions will remain’ Marcus Roberts.
  • (11) In Rotherham, Rother Valley, Dudley North, Plymouth Moor View and Penistone and Stocksbridge, the speed of Ukip's advance, coupled with evidence of a broader decline in blue-collar support for Labour, led the Fabians to talk of a " considerable vulnerability to Ukip ".
  • (12) Why not?” May on Sunday told Fabian Picardo, the chief minister of Gibraltar, that the UK remained “steadfastly committed to our support for Gibraltar, its people and its economy”, according to the details of a telephone conversation released by Downing Street.
  • (13) In the pre-war period Fabian authors such as Leonard Woolf, RH Tawney and GDH Cole created an intellectual basis for democratic socialism.
  • (14) From the first Fabian tract ( Why are the Many Poor? )
  • (15) It can be a bit chaotic, with not enough room to sit down.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Father Fabian Arias, an immigration advocate in New York City, helps people through the legal process at a hearing last month.
  • (16) Switzerland created fleeting moments of their own, and Fabian Schär headed one clear chance straight at Lukasz Fabianski.
  • (17) Fabian Delph gets booked for showing some initiative by trying to win the ball back for his team, albeit by hurtlingh into the back of Daniel Sturridge.
  • (18) The Fabian Beatrice Webb used to try to cheer her more impetuous colleagues with the thought of the inevitability of gradualism, but nowadays she is looking a little hasty.
  • (19) Yesterday Miliband's younger brother, Ed, the former energy secretary, launched his bid to lead Labour, telling the Fabian Society that the party had become "ideologically beached".
  • (20) Public life chaired the Fabian Society and Liberty; past trustee of Action Aid and the Immigration Advisory Service.

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