Sentences with phrase «also pragmatic»

He's ambitious in his vision, but also pragmatic.

Practice head David Whitaker specialises in property joint ventures, residential developments and acquisitions and disposals, Jonathan Moore advises on development transactions and David Coleman «is very knowledgeable and detailed, but also pragmatic and takes a commercial view in terms of the overall transaction».

[Mayor] Mussatto said it was important for councillors not to focus on just the harm caused by fossil fuel, but also pragmatic solutions that an ordinary person could implement, such as taking transit or not idling unnecessarily, «I couldn't live without my vehicle, but I can certainly reduce the number of trips I do use it for,» he said.

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But I am also pragmatic — in fact, hyper - pragmatic, to quote Alan — in sculpture - making, and that's what drives my theorising.

I am intense yet gentle, creative and also pragmatic, a dreamer yet a realist, a believer and a thinker and doer.

But while Delahaye believed in his idea, he was also pragmatic.

Silver is sick of all of us talking about tanking every spring, but he's also pragmatic and this lottery reform plan represents incremental progress.

However, at the same time, it is also pragmatic to look at every match as a finale and learn as much as you can — especially from losses.

It is also a pragmatic lie.

But for Uniqlo, it's also a pragmatic move.

Not exact matches

It was a brash move for an exploration and production firm to tack on a high - end jewel retail arm, but it made perfect sense to the pragmatic Gannicott, who liked the efficiencies of operating in what he described then as «the two bookends of the diamond pipeline: mining and retail,» and who also saw the brand's prestige as having great potential in such emerging luxury markets as China.

As pragmatic as this might be, it can also lead to insipid features that aren't relevant to users, or require you to ignore users» needs altogether.

Sure, the conceit of the book is that teams have many pitfalls, but the authors also discuss very pragmatic ways to avoid them.

Publicizing the results can also help too: it paints your business as responsive to customer concerns, and willing to make pragmatic changes.

On the international stage, Deng also pursued a pragmatic foreign policy that served only one objective: supporting China's economic growth.

Also, at least Brian Mulroney has called for the phase - out of supply management over time, a sensible pragmatic approach.

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Chen is also quite pragmatic about the benefits of accepting a currency that is largely unregulated.

Yet recent evidence suggests that fixed - income exposure could also benefit from pragmatic, well - thought - out smart - beta processes to portfolio construction.

It is important, to pick up the point he made about pragmatism, that we adopt a practical, pragmatic approach to the future, ensuring that we have the relationship we want with the European Union that will be good for the United Kingdom, but also good for the EU27.

While it is important for Canada to push for Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP)- level and China - Australia FTA (ChAFTA) + standards, Canadian negotiators must also be pragmatic about the degree of liberalization China's government is willing to undertake in the next decade.

While AMLO is a headstrong populist, he has also shown himself to be a pragmatic governor and a capable leader.

Prime Minister Harper has shown that he is in fact not just a fiscal conservative, but also more importantly, that he is a pragmatic fiscal conservative.

I also need to embrace the fact that being pragmatic and exposed to the world might seem difficult in the beginning, but at the end of the day, it will help us improve and move on to the next level.

The emerging understanding of how widespread sexual violence is, especially in conflict situations, also points to transmission routes; the potential for moral and pragmatic leadership by faith leaders is enormous.

«But it also sends a pragmatic message to Muslims, Christians and Jews that it's possible to work together - not as a system of checks and balances but as friends.»

Of course children can also be much more pragmatic than adults often assume.

I believe that we are at a crossroads as a global Church, shifting and changing, just as we have done for centuries — from a pragmatic side of «what» we do and also a theological side of «why» we do it.

It also made for a pragmatic approach to problems, a recognition that if one solution as fated not to work another could be tried.

Also, God's opinions would hopelessly complicate our essentially practical, pragmatic choices.

Also contrary to Jones» conclusion is Richard L. Brougham's recent attempt to save Whitehead from this dilemma by accusing Bergson of over-emphasizing continuity while Whitehead's kinder, gentler notion of «simplification» could provide us with a thoughtful and pragmatic account of experience that did nor have to reduce discontinuities to «mere appearances.»

And would not the accompanying cultural values of that scientific society — pragmatic openness; tolerance; freedom of inquiry, of belief and of decision; the democratic process; and self - control — also increase?

There's the pragmatics of that also.

His view is probably like that described by van Buren: «somewhat empirical, somewhat pragmatic, somewhat relativistic, somewhat naturalistic, but also somewhat aesthetic and somewhat personalistic.»

This type of argument is again broadly evidentiary in nature, although it reflects not the «turn to the subject» characteristic of the appeal to individual experience, but rather a «pragmatic» or «linguistic» turn, as illustrated by Whitehead's observation that the evidence of human experience as shared by civilized intercommunication «is also diffused throughout the meanings of words and linguistic expressions» (cited in TPT 74).12 Such an appeal is an essentially historical form of argumentation.

â $ œIt also made for a pragmatic approach to problems, a recognition that if one solution as fated not to work another could be tried.

We historians of the ancient Greeks» democracy need to keep banging on not only about the virtues of their peculiar political form, but also about the key differences — theoretical, ideological, and pragmatic — between any modern versions of «democracy» and theirs.

For the perfected actuality passes back into the temporal world, and qualifies this world so that each temporal actuality includes it as an immediate fact of relevant experience» (351) 3 Some interpreters refer also to Whitehead's reference to the «superjective nature» of God in Process and Reality: «The «superjective» nature of God is the character of the pragmatic value of his specific satisfaction qualifying the transcendent creativity in the various temporal instances» (88).4 In this case, however, the actual warrant lies again on page 351, as it is under the light of that particular passage that the «superjective character» on page 88 is interpreted as a reference to the objectification of the consequent nature.

They also emphasize the pragmatic political fact that aid is not likely to be provided if the beneficiary states violated basic human rights.

Pius also brought a pragmatic desire to realize in this small town what his papal predecessor Nicholas V desired but could not realize for Rome: the «most perfect paradise» of the Vatican district, a City of God on the Tuscan side of the Tiber.

Much can also be gleaned on a pragmatic level about how best to open a church's arms to outsiders — not least Warren's insistence that the church gets no credit for new members, only for members turned into ministers.

But significantly, such conduct is held to be wrong not just in a pragmatic sense but also in a theological one.

And the secular Jews who founded modern Israel granted the Orthodox the right to control matters of personal life (marriage and divorce, for example) not only for pragmatic reasons (they wanted the political support of this group) but also because they realized that many, if not most, victims of the Holocaust came from its ranks.

«As a Christian I think this is us being gracious about this issue and also being sensible and pragmatic,» he said.

She not only revealed the gravity of food security challenges but also proposed very pragmatic and unique solutions.

While it's not new news that he prefers to adopt a more pragmatic approach and is rigid with his tactics in terms of wanting his forward players to also put in shifts for the team defensively, we've seen how it can have a negative impact as it could be attributed to Alexis Sanchez's poor form since arriving at Old Trafford in January.

The modern sport also gives kudos to pragmatic sides like Bolton, whose tactics, organisation and sheer effectiveness must be appreciated by any student of the game.

There's also Chris Archer, and even though he's inexpensive and the Rays should ostensibly contend, they'll always consider chances to be pragmatic and build a low - cost foundation.

But he also knows when to get a pragmatic approach and he's been (yes, slowly but now very firmly) adapting to the new tactical and managerial tendencies.