Sentences with phrase «pragmatic rather»

The State profiles show that, as land managers, States invariably adopt a pragmatic rather than an adversarial approach to these negotiations, finding practical solutions to address the differing interests of the parties.

The Braven Ready Solo won't win any design awards with its bulky form factor and all - black look but it's design is pragmatic rather than aesthetically interesting.

This was done for pragmatic rather than political reasons, because ratification provides the same set of legal obligations on all Kyoto parties and thereby provides the basis for the harmonisation of trading systems.

Fascism was always a broad Church — Franco's embrace of the Catholic Church contrasts with Nazi Germany's ambivalent attitude towards Christianity; Goering and Speer were appalled by Hitler's antisemitism (albeit primarily for pragmatic rather than moral reasons); Ernst roehm and the other leaders of the SA were liquidated because their anti-capitalist attitudes clashed with Hitler's desire to ally with the German industrialists.

In short, the green movement has become pragmatic rather than ideological.

Also, cat lovers tend to be less compliant than dog lovers, being more pragmatic rather than to abide by the rules.

I'll go with a book that's pragmatic rather than visionary.

That's what I meant when I said his argument there is pragmatic rather than metaphysical.

Cohen has long viewed his legal career through a pragmatic rather than high - minded lens, said former Cooley Law School classmate Greg Crockett, now an attorney in Okemos, Michigan.

Not exact matches

Rather than judge Canada's success on abstract measures, which have little meaning to average folk — GDP, productivity, trade balances — Trudeau's candidacy is built on a pragmatic mantra: «A strong economy is the one that provides the largest number of good jobs for the largest number of Canadians.»

Owning a Betamax in the era of TiVo and ReplayTV — devices that store programs electronically rather than on tape — epitomizes Buchsbaum's utterly pragmatic approach to home - office technology.

«But, when it comes time to govern, [presidents] frequently implement much more pragmatic policies that attempt to level the playing field rather than rewrite history.»

Next, the soul gives us real intelligence — the ability to know the truth and value of things absolutely rather than just in terms of their pragmatic use for ourselves.

The Sadducees were a loose confederation of wealthy and powerful men, who took a secular — pragmatic, rather than a spiritual — ideological stance with regard to the Jewish nation and its spirituality.

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'm a rather pragmatic individual.

He concluded that since the overwhelming emphasis of these courses were upon skills acquisition and refinement, rather than any serious consideration of theories or theologies of communication, «the discipline is not considered important enough to warrant exclusive attention» in theological education.An overly pragmatic concept of speech instruction illustrates what Amos Wilder once warned against while developing his Theopoetic:

The book marks his movement politically toward pragmatic liberalism of the Franklin D. Roosevelt types and philosophically toward irony rather than tragedy in his philosophy of history.

This is, however, a rather pragmatic approach to truth — not that I'm against pragmatism.

Our discussions about the duty of Christians to the current American political order must be conducted with care, in a manner that is formal rather than intuitive, deliberative rather than spontaneous, regulative rather than pragmatic.

For the latter, truth is a pragmatic device by means of which men are enabled to gain satisfactions as biological and temporal rather than as rational and eternal beings.

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.

Buber — who was, in an elevated sense, a pragmatic realist — worked continually for these aims and insisted that the new «political enterprise» (the State of Israel) was normatively subordinate to the «religious idea» (Zion), and «that as long as such a reality [i.e., the idea of Zion] lives, history should be responsible to it rather than that it should be responsible to history» (preface to Israel and Palestine: The History of an Idea).

It comes from a real and pragmatic position, rather than a dictatorial (because the marketing bod says we have got to.)

While every Arsenal fan will be urging the players to give absolutely everything for a victory over table topping Leicester City tomorrow, our manager is often a bit more pragmatic than that and whereas we used to sometimes get caught out when throwing players forward, Arsene Wenger will now sometimes make sure of the point rather than risking all for the win.

There are some amongst the Arsenal faithful who would be somewhat disappointed if the Argentine did get the nod given his pragmatic — at times rather stifling — style of play.

Wenger sees himself as an ideological guru, or some kind of pied - piper, rather than a pragmatic manager.

It turned out to be a pragmatic window for the Hammers, rather than an exciting one, and much still rides on the continued fitness of Andy Carroll, the only remaining credible striker option in the continued and long running absence of Diafra Sakho.

So rather than getting into «Nanny State» debates about the proper role of government, my focus on this blog will always be purely pragmatic; if the school lunch program is here to stay, let's talk about how to make it better.

Being on such a tight budget, I have had to make my choices purely for economic rather than pragmatic reasons.

Cuomo followed this statement with a rather pragmatic answer regarding his so - called «citizens crusade» and how he plans to push through his agenda, saying:

There is undoubtedly a strand within the conservative tradition that is essentially pragmatic, seeing the job of the ruler as being to guide the ship of state wisely through whatever waters it may pass, rather than setting about, as Cameron himself put it «great schemes to remake the world».

Perhaps after that retreat and the specific resolutions and implementation mechanisms it outlined, the Vice President and his colleagues may be able to exert the required impact on the nation's economy based on pragmatic, proactive and rational economics rather than the president's probably well - meaning but misguided ideological positions.

Bringing in ideology usually screws things up because people are pragmatic - they want the government to do its job properly rather than impose its ideas on them.

Undoubtedly influenced by the experience of the Iraq war and occupation but also influenced by the «war on terror» he inherited, Obama pursued an eclectic mix of «pragmatic» rather than «principled» foreign policies.

His gaze is primarily philosophical and philological rather than political, pragmatic (or even religious), as well as Eurocentric with a strong focus on France with its long tradition of intellectual and ideological activism.

He has been a loyal, pragmatic ally trying to help, rather than undermine, the coalition government, even if this made him look weak and dull.

I reckon that is almost everybody who is in the park in current politics, perhaps excepting only the «pragmatics», who do not know what they think except that it may be rather dangerous to have any ideological framework at all.

The reason for the SNP supporters» avidness may lay in their personal rather than pragmatic attachment to their party.

Rather than being utopian or idealistic, such steps are pragmatic and serve realist state interests.

For all my misgivings and regret I would much rather have moderate pragmatic Tories in power than a bunch of flat earth Trotskyites.

Rather, pragmatic and practical rationality is expected to guide a state's conduct.

From my extensive fieldwork in these marginalized regions in Colombia, I learned that people often make a pragmatic decision to support FARC or ELN, rather than an ideological choice.

He said during the NPP era, where the country was under HIPC, corporate tax was 32 percent which was very high, but the NPP took a pragmatic step to rather reduce the taxes to 25 percent, to save the situation, thereby realizing more revenue for the country.

David Cameron has belatedly realised that Michael Gove's ideological drive is no substitute for measured, pragmatic reform of the education system.Time after time he has chased newspaper headlines rather than engage with teachers.

Half of voters see Cuomo as a moderate and, by a two - to - one margin, voters see him as a pragmatic, rather than partisan, Democrat.»

We've allowed ourselves to be defined as purely pragmatic — concerned with winning elections alone, rather than winning for a purpose — thereby ceding the mantle of principle to the far Left.

In a 2007 interview with Computer Weekly, Miller advocated a «pragmatic,» «long - term» approach to information technology, and that projects should «keep to a path that has strategic coherence, rather than bending every which way with the monthly or quarterly demands of the business.»

One of the pragmatic reasons the union officials who play such a big role in the WFP's operation wanted to give him its nomination rather than backing an obscure law professor whose lack of name recognition at the time was equaled only by her paucity of funding was that they felt more confident he could produce the 50,000 votes on the WFP line necessary to preserve its spot on the state ballot four years from now.

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.