Circumspect Sentence Examples

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  • It was done in a circumspect manner.

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  • In this situation you need to be very circumspect about claiming interactions.

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  • He is equally circumspect on the issue of whether outside promoters will manage these tours.

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  • As foreign minister he was cautious and circumspect.

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  • The circumspect approach to the ridge now loomed above him.

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  • Stephen was a keen and circumspect politician, and for his future security contracted, during his father's lifetime, a double' matrimonial alliance with the Neapolitan princes of the House of Anjou, the chief partisans of the pope.

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  • But he was certainly a prudent and circumspect ruler of blameless life, possessing, as Arnold of Lubeck (c. 1160-1212) expresses it, "the sober wisdom of old age even in his tender youth."

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  • He gives several reasons for this in his letter to the king, but in all probability his chief motive was that pointed out by Spedding, that in the court of king's bench there would be less danger of Coke coming into collision with the king on questions of prerogative, in handling which Bacon was always very circumspect and tender.

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  • This is a circumspect simple track with slow plodding bass sharing main duties with a looped wailing female vocal.

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  • He knew this to be the only policy that would be supported by the Afghan nation; and although for some time a rupture with Russia seemed imminent, while the Indian government made ready for that contingency, the amir's reserved and circumspect tone in the consultations with him helped to turn the balance between peace and war, and substantially conduced towards a pacific solution.

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  • As foreign minister he was cautious and circumspect, but when war was necessary he prosecuted it vigorously and left nothing to chance.

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  • Loisy's lines; "L' Abate Loisy e it Problema dei Vangeli Sinottici," four long papers signed "H," in Il Rinnovamento (Milan, 1908, 1909) are candid and circumspect.

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  • Margaret's foreign policy was sagaciously circumspect, in sharp contrast with the venturesomeness of her father's.

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  • According to the Free Dictionary.com, the definition of discreet is "marked by, exercising, or showing prudence and wise self-restraint in speech and behavior; circumspect."

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  • Could there be a better illustration of why real scientists are so circumspect about such claims?

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  • The FHA was also circumspect about the calls for more data sharing between lenders.

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