Sentences with phrase «at pragmatic»

However the world is in thrall to the «just in time» mentality of financial wunderkinds who do not value those «old fashioned» concepts, looking instead at the pragmatic usability of everything, seeing a book that lives on a shelf and is only taken off once a year, or once a decade, as an unnecessary encumbrance, not earning its space in a world where everything has to be costed, to be accountable for its existence.

Cullen Roche at Pragmatic Capitalism comes to the defense of index investing in part by noting that the secondary market, where all of this activity occurs, is not the economy.

However we are not likely at this point as Cullen Roche at Pragmatic Capitalism writes:

Cullen Roche at Pragmatic Capitalism finds the idea of «passive portfolios» to be an oxymoron.

Cullen Roche at Pragmatic Capitalism argues that active managers can add value especially in a bear market but the fees charged are still too high.

If you're writing non-fiction, such as the books on programming and management we publish at the Pragmatic Bookshelf, you still need to consider the reader's journey.

Last week Amanda Ramsay won the «top of the policies» vote at Pragmatic Radicalism's top of the policies event in Bristol, chaired by Maria Eagle MP, shadow transport secretary.

Purchase spoke of his despair at the pragmatic rightwing views which he believed the Labour leadership had stolen from the Conservatives and which failed to meet the needs of those he called «our people».

James Scott, press & policy officer for BASC Scotland said: «We are pleased at the pragmatic approach being taken by the Scottish Government.

But then Collins is at his pragmatic best in trying times.

Waterhouse will be looking at the pragmatic delivery of smaller batches and the customised product offers.

Then a look at pragmatic operations with inside and outside locations will be followed by a conclusion about the container - content relation in general.

Not exact matches

Harvard's Michael Porter argues that cutting coal in favour of natural gas is the most pragmatic solution at the moment

«This is a much - needed, pragmatic look at U.S. electricity reliability and resilience, including the priority of maintaining critical clean baseload power as electricity markets change,» said Rich Powell, director of ClearPath, which advocates for nuclear and hydropower.

In each of these cases, Apple has come off as pragmatic at best or as a follower at worst.

It's long since time for politicians on both sides of the aisle to look at the facts — and beyond the unfounded fears — about immigration and start enacting pragmatic solutions.

«Brexit could embolden the increasingly popular DF to push for its own referendum project... the DF may at the very least further limit the pragmatic Venstre party's room for maneuver on EU issues,» Barroso said.

It's clear that the growth is due to a confluence of factors: Welch's reputation and brand; a pragmatic education based on Welch's well - known dictums; the relatively low $ 39,000 price of the program (Indiana University's Kelley Direct program costs $ 66,000, while the University of North Carolina's MBA@UNC is priced at $ 99,700); and high levels of student satisfaction.

That is a very pragmatic view that appears to be at odds with Yale's outlook on the topic.

«It is possible that those two countries [Canada and Mexico] will offer concessions, not unlike Japan's pragmatic response to the U.S. protectionist push in the 1980s,» said Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics.

«It's important to be honest and pragmatic about where we are now,» says Roy Smythe, chief medical officer for strategy and innovation at Philips.

After devastating famine in the late 1950s followed by social upheavals of the Cultural Revolution in the»60s and»70s, China turned to a more pragmatic approach to economic development when Deng Xiaoping ascended to power at the end of that period.

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

It is too soon to tell whether he will adopt a more pragmatic, flexible approach at the central bank, which under Mr. Trichet came to be seen as rigid.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Moscow and Beijing have transformed their relationship from being Cold War adversaries to become pragmatic partners with a common goal of pushing back at a Western - dominated international system.

The group's vice president for international economic affairs, Linda Menghetti Dempsey, told a congressional subcommittee in April that such an effort would be «at once both a radical idea and, in our estimation, the most pragmatic and effective way forward» on trade with China.

Author or contributing author of dozens of scholarly and practitioner articles, books and programs, Richard's work has been described by various faculty at Harvard, Yale, London Business School and elsewhere as «great & much needed,» «wonderful and pragmatic,» «thorough» and «nothing short of remarkable,» as well as by Fortune 500, NYSE, FTSE and other company leaders as «leading edge,» «ground - breaking,» «valuable guidance,» «indispensable,» «compelling» and «exceptional.»

In such conditions a pragmatic economic principle is at work: Debts that can't be paid, won't be.

Rand is a clean energy champion who looks at the challenges of climate change through a pragmatic economic lens.

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.

While this strategy works just fine for large publishers that already have established brands and get thousands of shares on any new article they publish (such as Mashable or TechCrunch), a more pragmatic approach is needed for just about every other business.It's true that getting quality inbound links starts with great content on your client's website, but the missing link is getting journalists, contributors, authors, and editors at quality publications to become aware of that content so that they can link to it when writing relevant stories / articles.

He finishes with what amounts to a slight left jab at Carl Trueman who said the connection at CCCU is «pragmatic»:

Marrying mostly among themselves, and at a high rate (in 1989, Helmreich reports, 83 percent of survivors were married, compared to 62 percent of American Jews in the same age group), they often resorted to what Helmreich calls «pragmatic marriages»» made more for a bed, a blanket, and security than for any grander dreams.

It really does nt matter what my beliefs system was, let's just say it was based on chaos theory and science as applied to occult arts, I have since moved on to more pragmatic beliefs but I clearly recall how oppressive they were and surprised at how much propaganda they spread that was based on their ignorance.

The transformation of the pragmatic, results - oriented, rationalist liberalism of John F. Kennedy, first into the New Left and subsequently into postmodern American liberalism, put the imperial autonomous Self at the center of one pole of American public life, where it displaced the notion of the free and virtuous society as the goal of American democracy.

Given the range of forms, uses and attitudes of prayer, the poverty of a monochromatic prayer life seems tragic and wasteful: at the risk of sounding too pragmatic, prayer could be serving many more functions for most of us than we allow it to.

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.

But because all of this is at a rather nebulous level of experience, it seems to many people to be either wishful, romantic thinking or weak by comparison with the tough, pragmatic, hard - nosed realism of action.

(i) it has the character «given» for it by the past; (ii) it has the subjective character aimed at in its process of concrescence; (iii) it has the superjective character, which is the pragmatic value of its specific satisfaction qualifying the transcendent creativity.

It is important to realize, however, that this pragmatic justification of CE underwrites only its general reliability at best and by no means guarantees its universal infallibility Even if generally reliable because of its survival value, it is quite possible that on a particular occasion an experience of CE via «withness of the body» might be misleading, illusive, or even delusive.14

The city at its best generates its initiatives from dreams of a great and unlimited future, not from short - term or purely pragmatic ideals.

Another way of arriving at the same conclusion is to note that Whitehead explicitly identifies the superjective nature as «the pragmatic value of his specific satisfaction qualifying the transcendent creativity in the various temporal instances» (PR 135).

Though it seems that the resulting concept does match a space in nature, it is the space at a temperature of absolute zero, and the match with our social, pragmatic spaces is not good at all.

They lead him to the great 20th - century Baptist theologian E. Y. Mullins, whom Bloom elevates at least on pragmatic grounds to a rank above Jonathan Edwards or the Niebuhr brothers.

In fact, considering the lack of proof of your god (or of any god), the most pragmatic approach would be to conclude that no god exists at all.

Yet even in areas where pragmatic and secular terms typically rule the debate, charity remains at the forefront of Novak's concerns.

In answering more pragmatic question about how an artist can deal with «working for free» issues, I always advise artists to set expectations first, whether the task at hand is a) volunteer work, or b) professional.

So in the final chapter, Lanzetta questions post-Conciliar approaches to ecumenism where the «dogmatic» (to do with knowing the truth) is juxtaposed to the «pastoral» «which starts out from the historic and pragmatic fact, and on behalf of this aims at possible dialogue, without changing teaching, but de facto neither improving understanding of it, but even with the risk of altering its significance by virtue of the dialogue method chosen...».

It simply becomes arbitrary, or at best, pragmatic.

Carl Trueman, our friend and brother at Westminster Theological Seminary, has critiqued Union's departure from the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) on the grounds that our relationship with the CCCU has been «really pragmatic and only very superficially theological.»