People who are not subject to the authority of the law may then obey the rules for prudential reasons, or because even though they have no duty to obey, disobedience will do more harm than good.

When he attacked St. Jerome's book against Jovinian for prudential reasons, Jerome wrote him two letters (Epp.

The gist of the petition, which, for prudential reasons, was not published, may be gathered from a subsequent letter by Gookin to the Protector on 22 Nov. 1656 (Thurloe, State Papers, v. 646-9).

Perhaps there are good, prudential reasons for stopping short of prosecuting those who authorized this vile offense to elementary morality for the crimes against American and international law that it entailed.

I also part company with Andrew's sweeping embrace of means-testing, but mainly for prudential reasons.

The court did, however, cite a "prudential" reason for denying me the right to bring this lawsuit, saying that the federal judiciary should "leave delicate issues of domestic relations to the state courts."

No matter if my work is unusual, no matter if it is unfit, for prudential reasons, for their pages, surely there must be some sparks in it, somewhere, a few, to warm them to some sort of appreciation.

But in the oppressive climate reigning in the Roman Catholic Church, it is not difficult to imagine some of the "prudential" reasons not to make this potentially important contribution to the public debate.

After many years' labour the Church History was completed in three folio volumes published in 1737, 1739, and 1742 at Wolverhampton, though for prudential reasons Brussels appears on the title-page.

The former agrees with Hart that it is compatible with great iniquity, arguing that evil regimes would have good prudential reasons for complying with it.