What's the difference between forethought and prudence?

Forethought


Definition:

  • (a.) Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate.
  • (n.) A thinking or planning beforehand; prescience; premeditation; forecast; provident care.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Dysfunctional impulsivity is the tendency to act with less forethought than most people of equal ability when this tendency is a source of difficulty; most previous work on impulsivity appears to have focused on this trait.
  • (2) Rapists – deliberately and with forethought – use alcohol as a weapon in their assaults.
  • (3) No amount of forethought and attention to detail can guarantee the success of the Triangle.
  • (4) No, the price is not in monetary values, but the price of forethought, planning, good organization and effective use of that committee.
  • (5) Although our opening date has been delayed, I am confident that our forethought and preparation will result in a smooth transition and an efficient staff.
  • (6) The images published by the US newspaper revealed that the device that killed 22 people used by Salman Abedi had been made with “forethought and care”, raising questions for investigators about how it had been constructed and by whom.
  • (7) Functional impulsivity, in contrast, is the tendency to act with relatively little forethought when such a style is optimal.
  • (8) I can tell you the people that I’ve executed, when they committed crimes, they didn’t, wasn’t thinking about the death penalty and a lot of them were high, or a lot of them in the generation of people we’re dealing with today don’t have a lot of forethought about the end result,” he said.
  • (9) Manchester City – except they’ve planned it with skill and forethought, whereas we didn’t.
  • (10) Citing community feedback about the riots, the report concluded: "Either the violence was spontaneous without any degree of forethought or … a level of tension existed among sections of the community that was not identified through the community engagement."
  • (11) which might carry off "Lear" without forethought is not his, but if sheer acting ability and intelligence can make Lear live for us in the theatre, then Mr Redgrave's interpretation, taken wholly, is one of the most interesting and vivid lessons in the way to play the part.
  • (12) It is demonstrated, by analysing data taken from the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia database, that zero crossing analysis can sometimes be used t distinguish between different arrhythmias, but forethought concerning the number of sum and difference operations to be taken on the original data set is required when computing the higher order crossing counts.
  • (13) The preparation of overlapping electron micrographs (particularly from transmission electron microscopy) requires special forethought in planning, exceptional skills in microscopy and photographic techniques, as well as in display preparations which are unique in their handling and execution.
  • (14) Trump blundered into it on Wednesday when, with little evidence of forethought, he said in a TV interview that abortion ought to be illegal and women who underwent such an illegal procedure should face “some sort of punishment”.
  • (15) The key to successful arthroscopic surgery is careful forethought, meticulous planning, constant education, and a dependable team.
  • (16) Selection of a nuclear medicine computer system is a process that should be approached with care and forethought.
  • (17) Although this method does not determine the actual drug concentration per se, subversion of the monitoring procedure for many solutions would require considerable forethought and scientific knowledge.
  • (18) However, many times medical problems occur which no amount of safety and forethought could have prevented.

Prudence


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being prudent; wisdom in the way of caution and provision; discretion; carefulness; hence, also, economy; frugality.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The arches can be restored with atraumatic fixed prostheses but prudence is required.
  • (2) With every year and every budget its continued use was an annual testament to dependability, continuity and fiscal prudence.
  • (3) The unexpected presence of this previously unknown ADH variant in livers of M. nemestrina demonstrates the need for prudence in assignment of ADH isozymes.
  • (4) Although studies to date have failed to show conclusively that nurses and pharmacists are at risk to the carcinogenic, genotoxic and reproductive effects of these agents, prudence would dictate that every effort be taken to minimize their exposure during the handling and disposal of antineoplastic drugs.
  • (5) Until these data are available, we must maintain prudence in the selection (design) of premedicant regimens and carefully monitor all children receiving these "cocktails."
  • (6) Rather than get rid of the baby with the bathwater, could we not link morality with prudence and target abusive claims?
  • (7) He has six children: Prudence, from his first marriage, to Patricia; three by his second wife, Anna, who he divorced in 1999; and two young children with his current wife, Wendi.
  • (8) With care and prudence, many of these lesions can be successfully excised, or at least managed, so that the effect of these sometimes devastating lesions can be ameliorated.
  • (9) The Glazers must've expected that they were getting a wee, ginger, fledgling Ferguson; David Moyes surely imagined that the great day had come after years of stability and prudence at Goodison Park, frugally guarding the Toffees, he was finally to be given the reigns of the all-conquering devils.
  • (10) When using topical methods, prudence should prevail to avoid ingestion of fluoride.
  • (11) An appeal is made for prudence and not hysteria in relation to the use of mineral fibres of all types.
  • (12) And with the return of big-spending policies to combat the downturn, we have the tearing-up of the early Brown emphasis on prudence.
  • (13) We suggest that, though some prudence and caution is advised, this appears to be a safe and feasible adjunct in the treatment of cholelithiasis.
  • (14) The problem is very common, and it is hoped that with continued clinical prudence we can advance and improve our treatment modalities, particularly in those areas in which we fall so short!
  • (15) These findings draw attention to the cardiovascular side effects of interferon-alpha and advise prudence in high-risk patients.
  • (16) Odey, a veteran City agitator who has picked fights ranging from opposition to Railtrack's nationalisation to "shorting" the shares of struggling banks, was once married to Murdoch's oldest daughter, Prudence.
  • (17) "That is going to take some time, some care, and some prudence."
  • (18) Up the date any response is noted but the authors think that some prudence is necessary in the evaluation of the results especially because of the incomplete removal of disc in young patients.
  • (19) For this reason the authors recommend prudence and avoidance of very strong treatment.
  • (20) Appalling way to run an economy no wonder many top EU countries laugh at our so called economic "prudence".