But the doctor, with excess of caution, declared that he would make a third trial.

Lawyers here see this as an excess of caution, one further delaying what is already an interminable trial.

But can an excess of caution be counterproductive?

He prepared to whisper in her ear, then, with a sudden excess of caution, crossed the room swiftly, opened the door, and looked out.

A federal law enforcement official said yesterday that the memo was prepared "out of an excess of caution."

It leads to an excess of caution.

Clearly the Order was prepared in some haste, but it cannot be brushed aside as having been made out of an excess of caution.

"If adjustments have to be made out of an excess of caution, they will be made," she said.

Mayor Giuliani said in a statement after yesterday's order that he was confident the judge "is acting only out of an excess of caution."

"An excess of caution is suspicious, eh?"

"An excess of caution prevents us from doing so, of course, because we are so worried about the safety of air travel."

Reynolds was quite sure, however - excess of caution prevailing again - that he purposely kept the diversion memo out of North's hands.

"Out of an excess of caution, there are probably additional review processes that we can go through," Mr. Giuliani said.

Sometimes the witness does not understand the question, or may in an excess of caution or apprehension read too much or too little into it."

Perhaps it was an excess of caution, due to his isolated position in the enemy's country, and perhaps it was the loss of Jackson.

In the absence of a model tested in the field and more advanced technologies, an excess of caution led to very heavy damage and inconvenience.

An excess of caution seems to stop five members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

"It's just out of the excess of caution," said Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani at a news conference yesterday.

Asked about those similarities, Mr. Fischbein said the firm had registered as lobbyists for those other companies out of "an excess of caution."

"It is incumbent upon us, even if it turns out to be an excess of caution, to protect the interests of everyone who participated in the wagering."

"Out of an excess of caution, we submit all these blood tests," Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said at a briefing for reporters.

"What we are doing, we are doing out of an excess of caution," Mr. Giuliani said during the afternoon news conference at City Hall.

Certainly, in its execution of the attack the Fifth Army had displayed a cumbersomeness and excess of caution that would never have been countenanced by most of Hitler's captains.

Mr. Letterblair nodded approvingly at an excess of caution worthy of the best New York tradition, and the young man, glancing at his watch, pleaded an engagement and took leave.

"No; but I thought that I heard vague sounds below us, and, as I don't exactly know where the wind has carried us to, even an excess of caution would do no harm."