Sentences with phrase «need pragmatists»

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Since he joined the drug trade as a teenager, Chapo swiftly rose through the ranks, building an almost mythic reputation: First, as a cold pragmatist known to deliver a single shot to the head for any mistakes made in a shipment, and later, as he began to establish the Sinaloa cartel, as a Robin Hood - like figure who provided much - needed services in the Sinaloa mountains, funding everything from food and roads to medical relief.

Like the pragmatists, who also thought they were attacking the Enlightenment, they in practice need to presume a more universal moral standard in order to operate.

But the pragmatist contemporaries of the positivists offer us a needed correction to this notion - praxis itself as an evaluative standard.

The pragmatists in the WFP argue the party needs to run as high a profile a candidate for governor as possible to ensure receiving 50,000 votes in that race this fall and preserving its ballot line for another four years.

The Conservative leader is a pragmatist; he recognises that he needs the press as much as he needs the voters who buy their papers.

«At the moment, New York needs a caring pragmatist willing to address real concerns raised by caring parents and educators who see a system being manipulated from above to the detriment of their children,» he said.

, who worked with Corker on housing reform, said Corker's retirement is a «wake - up call» that the chamber needs more pragmatists.

Andrew Cuomo says his father called himself a «progressive pragmatist» whose soaring rhetoric was inspired not by what people wanted to hear, but what he needed to say.

The pragmatist in me (the part repulsed by confusing literature and nebulous dialectical philosophies) knows that we still need places like Cooper, imperfect means of strengthening the bonds that keep the art world from floating away into space.

The pragmatist perspective is the most compelling to me, in the similar vein to the conversations you and I have been having on this podcast about tech competence, which is, coding is a part of the future that is happening, and therefore having some minimal, reasonable understanding of it just so you know what's going on in the world, I find that moderately compelling, which, again, doesn't mean you need to build software, but it might mean you need to understand conceptually what the difference between front end, and back end, and SQL, and Ruby, and these things are, but really at a basic, bare competence level, and even then it's kind of a «maybe» in my mind.