The University of Tennessee's Walters Life Sciences building, is a model animal facility, spotlessly clean, careful in obtaining prior approval for experiments from an animal care committee.
Casting his reputation for caution to the winds, Mr Barroso also queried the legality of such German ideas as suspending voting rights for euro-zone miscreants.
Consumers, in the U.S. at least, are acting cautiously with the savings they're getting at the gas pump, as the memory of the recent great recession is still fresh in their mind.
This was our common opinion, we hoped that the Chinese auto makers committed to assembly could size up the situation, and took a cautious attitude towards it.
Before staring on a sea voyage, prudent navigators learn the sea charts, study the sailing directions, and memorize lighthouse locations to prepare themselves for any conditions they might encounter.
The theory sounds eccentric but once he starts to explain the detective work that went into his deduction, the scepticism gives way to wary admiration.