Sentences with phrase «more pragmatic terms»

In less prosperous and less romantic times, Christians have viewed marriage in more pragmatic terms as God's good gift of providing a partner with whom to work and live and make love.

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While fundamentally the consolidation of power could cut Turkey's structural growth potential, cyclically the destructive focus on short - term votes to win the referendum should give way to a more pragmatic focus on returning to growth,» the bank said.

The more pragmatic, long - term decision is to honor the promise.

The «truth» of a construal of the God - world relationship is a mixture of belief (Ricoeur calls it a «wager»), pragmatic criteria, and what Philip Wheelwright terms a «shy ontological claim,» or, as in Mary Hesse's striking remark, «God is more like gravitation than embarrassment» (Arbib and Hesse, 5).

There are very pragmatic reasons why we should confront this matter with more honesty and long - term commitment than we've done in the past, but the main reason goes beyond self - interest.

The document then avoids any further reference to «ridding the world of evil» and proceeds generally in somewhat less emotive and more pragmatic (but nevertheless grandiose) terms to discuss and project foreign - policy objectives.

Moreover, religious observers and publicists create for themselves pseudoreligious absolutes out of political machinery and programs that are more wisely and effectively viewed in pragmatic terms by the diplomatist.

I will maintain that even though data are indeed theory - laden, it is possible to make pragmatic distinctions between more theoretical and more observational terms in any particular context.

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 club's transfer business has been presented to us as a pragmatic purchase of proven Premier League performers (but then so were Ayew, Fonte and Snodgrass) when in fact it is no more than a short term survival strategy.

Now my own view is more pragmatic, and points to why the term austere is not a mood affiliating term as Tyler uses it — a term evoking mood without a context.

So maybe they're mixing it all up, allowing them to sound tough while actually pursuing a more pragmatic long - term approach.

The paper concludes that in light of this and other evidence of long - term anthropogenic change, we need to be more pragmatic in our conservation efforts rather than aiming for impossible «natural» states.

In more monetary or pragmatic terms, we design and print a color announcement that is mailed to about 700 venues across the United States.

(3) Abstraction has been described as «unknowable» before (in terms of all - black canvases, or seeking out the unperceivable), but here, in the context of feminist mark - making, «unknowable» has a more pragmatic use.

In its statement, the Global Climate Coalition said its reorganization was «part of a long - term initiative to refocus the public debate on climate policy to the issues at hand - namely, a policy contest between the unworkable Kyoto Protocol versus a more pragmatic and viable solution to the climate issue that relies on technology, innovation and American ingenuity.»

WoW... I am simply amazed at Lomborg... not that he buys the whole CAGW argument, he always did, but he struck me as someone more pragmatic in terms of how to deal with the potential impacts of warming.

Speaking to an audience of more than 100 ebullient supporters at EPA headquarters, the agency's administrator Gina McCarthy framed the move in both pragmatic and moral terms.

Even if little else (in terms of cohesive message, for example) can be taken as similar, I see a continuation of energy between Occupy and the battle for legal aid, albeit more refined, eloquent, concise, pragmatic, and persuasive in the latter, whereas that energy is chaotic, un (or mis?)