(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".
Insecure
Definition:
(a.) Not secure; not confident of safety or permanence; distrustful; suspicious; apprehensive of danger or loss.
(a.) Not effectually guarded, protected, or sustained; unsafe; unstable; exposed to danger or loss.
Example Sentences:
(1) The author discusses marriages in which a basically insecure husband plays a god-like role and his wife, who initially worshipped him, matures and finds her situation depressing and degrading.
(2) Foreign investment has been sluggish because of insecurity, red tape and corruption.
(3) Ultimately, the judgments combine to make a particularly peculiar melange: among the plaintiffs there is a mix of economic pessimism and insecure nationalism with a shot of nostalgia for the Deutschmark.
(4) Insecure infant attachment at 16 months was associated with maternal perception of overcontrol, depressed mood state, and aversive conditioning to the impending cry in the laboratory task at the 5-month period.
(5) Trade unions have sought to highlight the insecurity of workers who have been forced into self-employment in the tough jobs market of recent years.
(6) The sniping followed an article by Cameron in the Sunday Times , in which he called on the coalition to provide a "strong, decisive and united government" in the wake of acrimonious splits over Lords reform, warning that the public will not stand for "division and navel-gazing" at a time of social and economic insecurity.
(7) Amor Almagro, spokesperson for the World Food Programme (WFP) in Sudan, said: "There have been several meetings between the government of Sudan and the Tripartite on the implementation of the MoU, but so far access has not been granted for us to carry out an assessment and deliver much needed food assistance in areas held by the SPLM-N. "We remain concerned about the ongoing conflict and insecurity, which has hampered our ability to reach all those in need of food assistance."
(8) She says that the spread of insecure, short-term contracts and part-time work, together with benefits cuts and paltry wage growth, have meant that many people in work are struggling to make ends meet.
(9) Christina Wille, director, Insecurity Insight , Bellevue, Switzerland Demand data from those you fund : Gender sensitive donors in humanitarian aid should ask those they fund for better reporting on sex segregated violence.
(10) Thousands of desperate Syrians remain stuck inside Syria on the Turkish and Iraqi borders amidst mounting insecurity and with winter fast approaching.
(11) The very complex postburn situation explains why there are so many different shock-preventing fluid therapy programmes and such crude and insecure monitoring of the therapy.
(12) Insecurity has led to panic buying of fuel, with long, chaotic queues at petrol stations.
(13) Such a response is not surprising; it is rooted in the old Marxist belief that support for nationalist parties is driven by economic insecurity, and encouraged by capitalists who would prefer ethnic over class conflict.
(14) Politicians here always say they will act on immigration, yet they never do.” Florence Faucher, professor of political science at Paris’s Sciences Po University, said there were parallels between Front National voters in France and those who backed Ukip in the UK, particularly the sense of those who felt “left behind”, who hadn’t benefited from globalisation, feared the insecurity in the job market and worried about their future.
(15) The Guardian view on Jeremy Corbyn’s conference speech: he won a hearing not the argument | Editorial Read more The insecurity of many tenancies and the increased number of families moved out of their local areas, away from family and support networks, because of housing shortages and welfare cuts, was pinpointed as a key problem.
(16) When the human figure drawings were used as a projective tool, four personality traits of some of the children were identified: physical inadequacy, immaturity, body anxiety, and insecurity.
(17) Other research shows children from food-insecure families are 30% more likely to have been hospitalized for a range of illnesses.
(18) The children see education as crucial to improving their lives and in most cases the only way to escape poverty and insecurity.
(19) Gordon Brown's speech played deliberately and directly to the very real fears of many of those people, whether on drunken louts in the high street or teenage mums or financial insecurity, but the paper ignores all that and lands the blow it has been planning for months.
(20) Many people have been pushed into self-employment because they cannot find a suitable alternative job, the TUC said, raising concerns that insecure self-employment, agency work and zero-hours contracts are becoming a permanent feature of the jobs market even as the economy recovers.