Sentences with phrase «pragmatic sense»

Thus it makes pragmatic sense to me to focus our attention on a medium term adaption policy, whilst investing heavily in cleaner cheap sources of baseload energy, such as thorium fission and gen4 fission reactors and, in the slightly longer term, nuclear fusion reactors.

That he comes here to say «I won't come here to defend myself against this Gish Gallop» makes no pragmatic sense.

Helped by his pragmatic sense and experience as a salesman he manages to survive there for 28 years.

The decision to group the works according to sites that have been significant for Benglis» work — Greece, New York, India and New Mexico — makes practical, pragmatic sense but feels somewhat unequal to the inventiveness and consistency of the works themselves.

With the exception of isolated pockets, like the Florida Virtual School (where funding of some online courses will soon be tied to passing an external exam), the conversation about accountability for online credit recovery has not been nearly as robust and far - reaching, in either a political or a pragmatic sense.

It simply makes the most pragmatic sense to see what it is you really need — and why — to focus the training design.

It is interesting to me, with its pragmatic sense of mystery, how much Sicario is the flip side of Ridley Scott's The Counselor.

In a very pragmatic sense, if you were doing 100 pounds on bench press for three sets of 10 last week, maybe this week we're either trying to either increase it to 105 or we're trying to do more than 10 reps or some kind of combination.

But significantly, such conduct is held to be wrong not just in a pragmatic sense but also in a theological one.

Even when Wendy's actions put his own life in danger, Marty is selfless, and even forgiving in the pragmatic sense (he still needs her help to prevent the mob from carrying out a hit).

May I emphasize the fact that the elements and functions coming from the superconscious, such as aesthetic, ethical, religious experiences, intuition, inspiration, states of mystical conscious - ness, are factual, are real in the pragmatic sense... producing changes both in the inner and the outer world.

This is why, in a purely pragmatic sense, email is by far the best answer to this question to how to market on a budget.

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It was a brash move for an exploration and production firm to tack on a high - end jewel retail arm, but it made perfect sense to the pragmatic Gannicott, who liked the efficiencies of operating in what he described then as «the two bookends of the diamond pipeline: mining and retail,» and who also saw the brand's prestige as having great potential in such emerging luxury markets as China.

«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.»

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Common sense is completely subjective and there is actually no reason to rate a moral decision reached due to «common sense» over a moral decision reached due to say pragmatic or utilitarian concerns.

I take a more pragmatic view based on observation and common sense.

Religious forms and structures, then, are important to Murdoch for pragmatic reasons: they are pegs on which to hang spiritual experiences that might otherwise be too amorphous and indefinable to be made sense of.

In a sense, this is to out - James William James; it is the ultimate pragmatic concept of God.

It was pragmatic in the sense that it becomes increasingly aware of the contingent circumstances of history which determine how much or how little it is necessary to emphasize» such regulative principles as justice, equality and liberty.

This issue is, for Boff, not only a pragmatic one, for instance in the sense of seeking to gain more space for free theological thinking and publishing through the reduction of control by hierarchy.

This vulgarly practical and relativistic theory of truth perhaps most closely approximates the current, popular sense of the word «pragmatic,» and one can find warrants for it in the writings of all the pragmatists, even including some of James».

This pragmatic argument comes straight from the American sense of purpose.

RS: What I have got out of it, put very simply, is that Whitehead's criticism of the existing scientific view is not that it is pragmatic, or empirical, or based on sense - data, but that it is based on a kind of theory about the nature of the world, and that this has imparted a view of time and space and how the mind works.

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).

My scientific thinking has been most influenced by the liberal behaviorism of Neal Miller and the psychobiology of Curt Richter — rough - hewn, pragmatic, common - sense approaches.

The UK, by contrast, has been contradicting itself at every turn - to the point of surprising Germans, in the sense that they tend to view the British as pragmatics who get things done.

It's at this point you need an icebreaker; you need an alternative, another option for all of these sensible and pragmatic people who resent partisan gridlock because it just doesn't make any sense to them.

From a pragmatic standpoint, though, this makes no sense.

In the acting department, Lucy Liu as O - Ren Ishii delivers an arresting performance, evil yet pragmatic, and with a sense of malicious innocence and elegance, that elevate her character form bloody murderer to a stylized female samurai.

For me, the sense of story in a game overcomes the tiny pragmatic problems it may have; Spiderman Unlimited for Spiderman fans adds to the Spidey story, which makes it worthwhile and engaging.

This widespread sense of unease lent an impetus to the intellectual critique and shifted the debate toward less ideological and more pragmatic objectives.

And for those who do not sit firmly on either side of the charter debate — such as those curious about the possibilities for pragmatic solutions that might make public education more responsive while maximizing social well - being — waiting for more and better research also makes sense.

The Outback oozes appeal in the pragmatic transportation sense, if not the car - folk sense.

Lizzie is haunted by her first love (a revolutionary Irishman), burdened by a sense of duty to right past mistakes, and torn between a desire for independence and the pragmatic need to be cared for.

For me, the sense of story in a game overcomes the tiny pragmatic problems it may have; Spiderman Unlimited for Spiderman fans adds to the Spidey story, which makes it worthwhile and engaging.

Lara has always been a pragmatic survivalist with a keen sense of adventure; to decide that she needs to be tortured in order to be able to kill goes against what we know of her history and personality so far.

Yet it is also clear from Hofmann's writings that, apart from a persistent undercurrent of a mystical, rather Germanic sense of the spiritual in nature, his approach to teaching was profoundly informed by his pragmatic understanding of vanguard modernism.

With their corresponding diaries, they represent two sections of the installation, Mina's factual and pragmatic account and her husband's contrasting record evoking a generosity of spirit and a sense of romanticism.

But — only in part do you remind me of them because the other part of you is the pragmatic artist who has gotten past the «starving for art» martyrdom & found a way to be successful without sacrificing your sense of self, what makes you unique as an artist.

That's because the most useful discourse tempers science with engineering, mathematical analysis with common sense, the vigor of capital with the dignity of labor, and pragmatic utility with the quality of mercy.

But on climate change we agree: Taxing the sources of carbon pollution is a pragmatic, bipartisan, common - sense solution.»

Beyond this common ground, we fall on different points of the spectrum between James's pragmatic approach, where he proposes giving decision makers information as our «best guess» about future outcomes nonetheless, and Lenny's highly skeptical position — namely, there's no hope in approximating the real world in any useful sense.

Lee's formulation seems admirably pragmatic to me, in all the senses I can imagine.

Weil's Tax lawyers deliver value to clients by providing creative, strategic solutions that make sound business sense and are pragmatic commercially.

There are times when such inferences are based on a «robust», though nonetheless legitimate, exercise of fact finding... Here I do not consider that such an inference requires a particularly «robust» approach to fact finding; instead, I consider it to be both pragmatic and an exercise of «common sense».»

Danny is approachable and easy to work with; providing a pragmatic and common - sense approach to complicated legal issues

Not apply the robust, pragmatic common sense approach because expert evidence was applied.

The fact of this evidence, given that the trial judge accepted it, eliminates the need to resort to the Snell robust and pragmatic, common sense approach.

If, as seems to be the case, the trial judge in the new Fisher trial did apply the Snell robust and pragmatic common sense approach, then, assuming there is an appeal and assuming that Aristorenas is still good law once Clements is decided, the Court of Appeal may have to determine whether Fisher is consistent with Aristorenas.