Sentences with phrase «not pragmatic»

The movement's «bottomless advocacy agenda... serves polarizing constituency - building politics, not a pragmatic agenda for shared global growth and prosperity,» Foreman suggests.

The 3DS was not pragmatic, and it's still doing well.

The 3DS was not pragmatic, and itâ $ ™ s still doing well.

The DS was not pragmatic, and it did well.

We're nothing if not pragmatic, so we changed course and used the index funds for the next 11 years with good success.

Cuomo is nothing if not pragmatic, especially when it comes to national politics.

For all the hysterical reporting since last Friday of the weird, antiquated and downright despicable positions that the DUP have taken across a range of social and political issues, they are nothing if not pragmatic.

today we do nt play beautifull football (not a pragmatic one eather, thats for sure).

Clifford, who learned the pro game under both Van Gundys, is nothing if not pragmatic.

Wenger is not pragmatic enough.

That — ironically — is a theological & philosophical objection, and not a pragmatic one.

What Pete Seeger never left, of course, was the left: not the pragmatic liberal world of Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, and Scoop Jackson, but the hard left that created Stalin's Popular Front in the «30s and later spelled the country's name «Amerika» in the «60s.

It is very much a practical discipline, but not a pragmatic one.

They each had a clear and visceral, if not pragmatic, understanding of finance, competitive markets and how companies operate.

clearly the issue isn't pragmatic.

20 year term life insurance isn't a pragmatic option if you have a serious medical condition.

Not exact matches

You will save money, but this may not be the most pragmatic solution.

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.

«We're not going to see a complete redo of Dodd - Frank, nor should we... We're going to see some sensible, pragmatic common - sense changes to eight years of regulation... Things won't happen in a dramatic way, but it will definitely happen.»

«We are taking a pragmatic approach to eSports so this is just one of the first steps, but down the road we can envision the opportunity for large - scale live spectator - filled events that not only highlight the game, but some of the NBA athletes that represent our brand alongside other pop and fashion icons,» Argent says.

Don't react to the president's rhetoric, but to pragmatic proposals.

«He always said through the (global economic) crisis when he was running up very substantial deficits, which would not be his preferred approach, «I'm not an ideologue, I'm a pragmatic person,»» Pothier said in an interview.

«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.

These are pragmatic people, they know they need to work with him, like him or not.»

Consumers are still, in the end, pragmatic and self - interested (and finding a decent hotel room in Manhattan can be such a prize that it wouldn't matter if Rodrigo Duterte's name were on the building).

Conservatives are often closer to pragmatic, irrational and authoritarian policies — which was one reason the late great free - market economist Friedrich Hayek wrote «Why I am not a conservative» as a postscript to his book The Constitution of Liberty.

Ms. Jansen responded that she is not a member of the federal Conservative Party and is under no obligation to support their candidates (her pragmatic reply is unlikely to appease her Wildrose critics).

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

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.

What Carl Trueman rightly calls «comprehensive confessional commitment» is not what the CCCU has in mind because it offers only a basic theological commitment for pragmatic, practical, and strategic common concerns.

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.

All of this doesn't mean that emotions have nothing to do with racism but that racism is something more pragmatic than senseless, wanton emotion and violence.

I do not know if I am a coward, pragmatic or I just do not care about this issue enough.

Being, to use your term, pragmatic about it, I admit my ignorance and posit that the answers to any and all of your questions have absolutely no bearing on whether or not I believe in a god or gods.

With Kennedy dead, there were no answers left in the old pragmatic liberalism» hence the New Left's loathing of two of the last standing pragmatic liberals, Hubert Humphrey and Henry M. Jackson (not to mention the New Left's rabid hatred of the most legislatively successful liberal president in history, Lyndon Johnson).

Being pragmatic, science has not been able to answer any of the above questions and so many more.

Celibacy does mean that a priest can be more easily moved around, and no doubt it does cost the Church a lot less money, but it is not entered into for these purely pragmatic reasons.

«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.»

It seems that proponents for change aren't interested in the deeper reasons for the Church's unique vision of celibate love, dismissing it as merely a pragmatic discipline.

This largely, though not totally, functional, pragmatic view of truth stresses heavily the implications of certain models for the quality of human and nonhuman life.

From a pragmatic point of view, I couldn't care less about a prayer before a Gov» t meeting.

But cautions are not likely to receive much attention because of what Pritchard identifies as a strong pragmatic bias toward what is immediately useful.

In any case, where purely rational criteria can not guide us in judging among claimants to ultimate truth, pragmatic considerations loom large as providing criteria.

4) The pragmatic task makes normative judgments by locating today's issues in the symbolic world of the NT.

A few theoretical chemists have openly considered the extent to which these are not merely pragmatic issues of how to proceed and how to apply the theoretician's results (which are considerable) but are issues of philosophical interpretation and metaphysical presupposition.

The pragmatic effects of common law are what ultimately define it, not the notions of the academy.

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

The draft supports these values not just by pragmatic calculations but by a kind of «spiritual vision,» conceived broadly enough to elicit support from many different religious traditions.

Mays complains that even if physical concepts were more than pragmatic devices (which they are not, according to Mays), this isomorphism between forms of energy and sensory qualities does not hold (PW 210-16/231 -38).

The nation would function in the pragmatic yet the citizenry would recognize that it did not represent mankind (past, present, and future).