(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".
Warily
Definition:
(adv.) In a wary manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Downing Street, meanwhile, eyes George Osborne warily as a dangerous grey cardinal, banished from court but maintaining his old network of allies and spies.
(2) The use of posterior composites is riddled with so many controversies that the puzzled practitioner must step warily among them.
(3) While many fiscal conservatives view Huckabee warily, he has a solid social conservative thread and a folksy charm that would pair well with Trump’s big city bluster.
(4) 'She could have been anybody's daughter', fretted one contemporary report, and parents looked warily at their own offspring.
(5) What we really have to do is win the public argument.” He says critics of the bill have to tread warily.
(6) Empty buses lumbered through the streetson Tuesday , police weighed down with body armour warily watched pedestrians near a fast food restaurant and members of Cossack units stood guard at bus stops.
(7) Royal Mail staff leaving the company's vast Mount Pleasant complex in central London showed a split in attitudes towards planned privatisation : rank-and-file staff vehemently opposed; management warily in favour.
(8) The market has responded warily to reports of a tough summer with ITV's share price falling 25%, to about 72p, since the after-glow of ITV's bumper results pushed it to a three-year high of 95p.
(9) Arsenal’s Jack Wilshere treads warily on return to action for club’s U21s Read more Wenger estimates Arsenal lived under financial constraints for six years while the Emirates project was realised, at a cost of £390m but West Ham have been able to take a short cut he believes can help to make them regular contenders for the Premier League’s top-four.
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(11) It is designed by a British teenager, Nick D'Aloisio, and – having been described as one of the most disruptive apps of 2012 – is a venture that may be viewed warily by the newspaper industry.
(12) In the last conference season before the election the contenders warily shuffled around the ring.
(13) On Capitol Hill, Scott Brown was already being spoken of as a potential Republican presidential candidate, though he is also being eyed warily by rightwing colleagues concerned that he may prove too liberal.
(14) Amid signs that Barack Obama is treading warily over calls for air strikes, the administration spokesman, Jay Carney, said the president would "continue to consult with his national security team in the days to come", and there would also be further consultations with members of Congress, including some closed briefings later this week.
(15) They can be surprisingly resilient but, because their trust is so warily given, the slightest betrayal can result in protracted antagonism – sometimes to the point of making the foster situation untenable.
(16) Senators, mostly Republicans warning of leaving the country exposed to another terrorist attack, voted to beat back the bill, which had been warily backed by the Obama administration, technology giants and most civil libertarian groups .
(17) Proposals to overhaul the municipal courts and create a citizen police review board were greeted warily, if not with outright skepticism.
(18) Amid signs that Barack Obama is treading warily over calls for air strikes against the advance of a Sunni Muslim insurgency, administration spokesman Jay Carney said the president would "continue to consult with his national security team in the days to come," and said that there will also be further consultations with members of Congress, including some closed briefings later this week.
(19) While Turkish and Kurdish leaders wait for the music to start in their fragile "peace process", they have already jointly taken to the dance floor, warily exploring whether enemies can become partners.
(20) The deputy prime minister spoke of his anger and frustration at the Tory tactics as he confirmed that the Lib Dems would “tread warily” if they formed another coalition with the Conservatives .