Sentences with phrase «pragmatist known»

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.

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This is particularly the case with a myth which, with all its other disadvantages is outspokenly pragmatist and propagandist in character, and which ignores the question of truth to such an extent that it no longer exists even in untruth, but in a chilly no - man's - land between God and the devil.

But they mostly talked Staten Island — because pragmatists like Oddo know you can't waste a mayoral visit to the so - called «forgotten borough.»

Philip, on the other hand, is slightly more of a pragmatist, and concerned with what the future holds for their children (ages 13 and 7), who know nothing of their double lives.

Duncan, known for transforming underperforming schools and experimenting with new models, has a record as a pragmatist with a taste for innovations.

Mehta believes in the dream, too, but he's also a pragmatist: He knows that reality, especially the reality of fixing schools, is much more complicated.

Being a pragmatist, and knowing that neither bull nor bear markets last forever, he developed a trading model that combines elements of both models into a hybrid fundamental - technical methodology.

We assume Levine wanted players to avoid harvesting the kids for precious Adam, but we're pragmatists — we knew harvesting would provide us with more of the magical juice, and what's one girl's life when compared to, let's say, having bees living in your arms?

Josef Albers: Art as Experience looks at the relationship between Albers's pragmatic (and Pragmatist) teaching and his art, presenting previously unseen works by Albers's students from the Bauhaus and elsewhere, along with little - known studies and other art by Albers himself, and reveals the vibrancy and extraordinary impact of Josef Albers's groundbreaking pedagogical methods.

In our verbal exchanges, I came to realize that Hafif wasn't so much a practitioner of Zen (as many would no doubt falsely believe) as she was, ultimately, a «self - reliant» American pragmatist of the first order.

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.