(a.) Proceeding from, or dictated or characterized by, prudence; prudent; discreet; sometimes, selfish or pecuniary as distinguished from higher motives or influences; as, prudential motives.
(a.) Exercising prudence; discretionary; advisory; superintending or executive; as, a prudential committee.
(n.) That which relates to or demands the exercise of, discretion or prudence; -- usually in the pl.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ABI figures revealed that the best annuity for someone who is a heavy smoker and has severely impaired health was at Prudential, which paid out 46% more than the worst, from Friends Life.
(2) Prudential chief executive Tidjane Thiam has probably had worse moments than Wednesday's dressing down from the Financial Services Authority .
(3) However, the governor of the Bank, Mervyn King , will chair both the committee and the prudential authority, and is expected to exercise ultimate control over all areas of supervision.
(4) The City regulator also used its Prudential Risk Outlook to reveal that the UK's biggest banks have been told they must have enough capital to withstand a plunge back into recession in the next four years.
(5) At St Edward, a joint venture between housebuilder Berkeley and insurer Prudential’s M&G property arm, 43% of staff are female.
(6) Thiam returned to McKinsey and came to prominence in the UK when he joined Prudential’s rival Aviva.
(7) City analysts said Prudential's aim to tap investors in the coming two months follows huge demands on the purse strings of investors who have been asked to back fundraisings by London-listed companies worth almost £60bn over two years.
(8) Less than a third of women expect to be "financially comfortable" in retirement, according to figures from Prudential.
(9) The Financial Conduct Authority and the Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority are investigating, as is the accounting body the Financial Reporting Council.
(10) Two black FTSE 100 bosses come to mind: Tidjane Thiam, who left Prudential for Credit Suisse last year, and Arnold Donald at Carnival.
(11) The three made their announcements after Standard Life, Aviva and Prudential’s M&G barred investors from withdrawing their cash earlier in the week.
(12) In the end, shareholders took out their anger by ousting Harvey McGrath as chairman of Prudential in 2011.
(13) Hector Sants, the current boss of the FSA, will take on the role of chief executive of the first overseeing agency, which will be called the Prudential Regulatory Authority.
(14) It was perhaps good training for running Britain's top financial watchdog (the FSA will be split into two, with "prudential" regulation of the financial system going to the Bank of England, and supervision of products and sales coming under Wheatley at the FCA).
(15) King, who will now be in charge of macro-prudential supervision as well as interest rates said tonight: "I welcome these new responsibilities.
(16) Chief executives of companies such as Burberry, Tesco, Vodafone, BAE Systems, Prudential and GSK were keen to take a final opportunity to lobby the prime minister in advance of the meeting of political leaders in Northern Ireland.
(17) Prudential's proposed $35bn (£23bn) acquisition of AIA fits this profile.
(18) My assessment of recent history is that there has not been a case of a major prudential or conduct failing in a firm which did not have among its root causes a failure of culture as manifested in governance, remuneration, risk management or tone from the top,” Bailey said.
(19) Once the deal is finalised, Prudential will integrate AIA with its other Asian operations.
(20) The FSA said Prudential should have informed it about such a big acquisition; instead the regulator found out when the planned takeover was reported in the press.
Thought
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Think
() imp. & p. p. of Think.
(n.) The act of thinking; the exercise of the mind in any of its higher forms; reflection; cogitation.
(n.) Meditation; serious consideration.
(n.) That which is thought; an idea; a mental conception, whether an opinion, judgment, fancy, purpose, or intention.
(n.) Solicitude; anxious care; concern.
(n.) A small degree or quantity; a trifle; as, a thought longer; a thought better.
Example Sentences:
(1) Reactive metabolites which suppress splenic humoral immune responses are thought to be generated within the spleen rather than in distant tissues.
(2) To determine the accuracy of double-contrast arthrography in complete rotator cuff tears, we studied 805 patients thought to have a complete rotator cuff tear who had undergone double-contrast shoulder arthrography (DCSA) between 1978 and 1983.
(3) Blood pressure control was marginally improved during the study and it is thought possible that better patient compliance might explain this.
(4) The amino-terminal region of a 70 kDa mitochondrial outer membrane protein of yeast and the presequence of cytochrome c1, an inner membrane protein exposed to the intermembrane space, are thought to be responsible for localizing the proteins in their final destinations after synthesis in the cytosol.
(5) "The sending off was a joke, and I thought the penalty was even worse," Bruce said.
(6) The macrophage-derived product, interleukin 1 (IL 1) is thought to play an important regulatory role in the proliferation of T lymphocytes; however, its mechanism of action is unknown.
(7) Critics say he is unelectable as prime minister and will never be able to implement his plans, but he has nonetheless pulled attention back to an issue that many thought had gone away for good.
(8) Adding a layer of private pensions, it was thought, does not involve Government mechanisms and keeps the money in the private sector.
(9) Until recently, the control was thought to be governed by single, dominant genes, located within the I region of the H-2 complex.
(10) She was not aware that it was an assassination attempt by alleged foreign agents.” If at least one of the women thought the killing was part of an elaborate prank, it might explain the “LOL” message emblazoned in large letters one of the killers t-shirts.
(11) Likewise, they had little or no effects on the fluorescence anisotropy of TMA-DPH, which is also thought to be located in the interfacial region of the lipid bilayer, either when the probe was located in the outer layer of the plasma membrane or when the probe was located in the inner membrane compartment.
(12) Sheez, I thought, is that what the revolutionary spirit of 1789 and 1968 has come to?
(13) My thoughts are with all those who have lost loved ones or been injured in this barbaric attack.
(14) This behavior consists of a very rapid bend of the body and tail that is thought to arise from the monosynaptic excitation of large primary motoneurons by the Mauthner cell.
(15) So we concluded that duplications and accessories should be thought to have similar meanings with the ordinary branching patterns of MCA in the occurrence of aneurysms.
(16) Why is it so surprising to people that a boy like Chol, just out of conflict, has thought through the needs of his country in such a detailed way?” While Beah’s zeal is laudable, the situation in South Sudan is dire .
(17) "While I wouldn't necessarily concur with all the specific recommendations of the report," Barker said, "there is one clear message that I do agree with: that solar has far more potential than has previously been thought."
(18) Although histologic proof of regression is not available, this experience suggests a more favorable prognosis than previously thought possible.
(19) He was often detained and occasionally beaten when he returned to Minsk for demonstrations, but “if he thought it was professional duty to uncover something, he did that no matter what threats were made,” Kalinkina said.
(20) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.