Sentences with phrase «pragmatism comes»

I'm more concerned about the volume of water in the glass and if it would suffice to quench my thirst... Perhaps this deep rooted cynical pragmatism comes with being an engineer in an industry that is more of a sausage fest than the average meat packing plant?

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In the resources sector, that sort of pragmatism can be unusual: Given the tremendous capital outlay involved in developing a mine, it's easy for executives to get attached to projects in anticipation of a payday that may never come.

«What I've found as an individual coming here to the US is that the level of pragmatism you have here across the board, from your doorman to the highest - level executives, is phenomenal,» he said.

We live in a time of grand explanations of Obama — Dinesh D'Souza's post-colonialism, Stanley Kurtz's socialism, and James Kloppenburg's pragmatism have all come to the fore recently.

People's moral and civil rights are nowadays subjected to mundane abuses of Federalism, the father of adoption's secularism and divorcee of theocracy whose many so many autocrats are of the abolitionists within Christendom's creeds of embittered many; now marrying into the servile atheists euphemisms giving rises to the ever damned younger infidels of socially perverse and vulgar demeaning pragmatisms via emotionalized pleasurable natures, leading down the future's committed vile systems of embittered communalisms reaping the awaiting harbingers» coming wraths of despotisms accruals.

Each of these rather different versions of pragmatism varied from the rest and, often as not, actually came into logical conflict with some of them.

That attention comes at a particularly apt time, as feminist critics argue that society tends to discourage «nurturing» attitudes in favor of the «domination» stance that runs through Bacon and Descartes, and seems inescapably built in to modern pragmatism.

There is a chilling sense of history coming alive to haunt the club in those comments, as if Shanks has turned in his grave one too many times over the lack of pragmatism.

Although it looks like Wenger has put his stubborn approach aside and opted for less subtlety and more pragmatism and has come to the realisation that this is what is needed.

As the bulk of union effort in this race focuses on helping Corbyn, pragmatism will need to come from different sources.

A look at the decisions Obama has made since becoming the nominee — opting out of public financing, reversing course on the domestic surveillance bill, etc. — suggests a real strain of pragmatism in his thinking that further bolsters the «steady hand» argument when it comes to his vice presidential selection.

Sayadi's thinking is the kind of pragmatism the Tunisian government wants, and in recent years it has come to see science and technology as important tools of national advancement.

Germany is quite an amazing country, where unlimited freedom to work and explore new directions meets strict order and iron discipline, where unlimited resources come up against strict planning and careful pragmatism, and where politeness and courtesy are mixed with a special sense of humour and generosity.

So finally, even if in his Einsteinian pragmatism God could only be accurately described as the Old One, surely there was a faith in that image, perhaps an agnostic's faith, that made it presumptuous for any human being to come to any conclusion about the goodness or incomprehensible amorality of God's universe or the souls it contained until we at least learned the laws that governed it.

Johnny's queer but, refreshingly, «God's Own Country» is not the coming - out narrative one might expect; he's not in denial about his sexuality, nor are his elders, who demand of Johnny a life that impedes his self - expression out of pragmatism, not prejudice.

And so the recognisable character motifs — her pregnancy; her watchful smarts; her lack of cussing; her comfy pragmatism; even her accent all come across as little easter eggs to the film's fans, while still allowing Tolman room to create a totally different character.

The secretary's brand of pragmatism has resulted in a «real lack of consistency when it comes to NCLB implementation,» according to Andrew J. Rotherham, co-founder of Education Sector, a Washington think tank, and a former education aide to President Clinton.

However, coming from a commercial background, I'm equally passionate about emphasising real world pragmatism.

Pragmatism When it comes to addressing educational inequality, there's no single problem or single answer.

When it comes to fighting attempts at video game legislation, the ESA has traditionally chosen pragmatism over principles.

By this time, abstract art in the public imagination had come to be equated with the clean lines and aesthetic pragmatism of the machine - age.

As Westfall puts it, abstract art «had come to be equated with the clean lines and aesthetic pragmatism of the machine - age.»

When it comes to political activities (rather than scientific ones), I think Mann needs a lesson in pragmatism.

The next failure to compromise came in the fight over adding a «safety valve» provision to limit unanticipated high costs from greenhouse gas restrictions, something Joe Romm and many others rejected out of hand at the time, even though Romm last year (around minute 37 in this videotaped panel discussion) noted the need for pragmatism to get things started: «The game changer for the world isn't between no price for carbon and a high price.

As outlined over the past decade in articles at Science and Nature, and in reports such as the Hartwell paper and Climate Pragmatism, various experts have argued that political success will only come by pursuing a diverse portfolio of policy solutions and technologies, implemented across levels of government and through the private and nonprofit sectors.

When it comes to external counsel, Connolly values pragmatism and an understanding of the client's business, and believes in building long - term relationships with the right firms.