Sentences with phrase «pragmatists at»

Whether we like to admit it or not, many of us pastors are pragmatists at heart.

The conservative wing of the church is itself a fragile coalition, including those who lean in a catholic direction, those who are card - carrying charismatics, those inclined in an Anabaptist direction, and those who are really pragmatists at heart but for the moment lean to conservatism out of convenience and traditional piety.

Not exact matches

Analysts said his death at the age of 82 was a blow to Iran's pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani ahead of presidential elections in May as he played a key role in Rouhani's landslide election victory in 2013.

Even a casual look at how a regime dominated by fanatical communist ideologues could be converted into one led by consummate pragmatists should be especially useful for Trump.

«He is a pragmatist,» says Olivier J. Blanchard, the director of research at the International Monetary Fund who received his economic doctorate from M.I.T. in 1977, a year after Mr. Draghi.

At many points the influence of John Dewey and other pragmatists will be evident, particularly their belief in democracy as a comprehensive way of life, their confidence in the wide relevance of the scientific spirit and methods, and their commitment to education as a moral enterprise.

For the pragmatist James the cross-cultural study of religion was essential because it presented human beings at the passionate peak of their shared experience.

It was his advanced study at Columbia University that had radicalized him and made him a pragmatist.

But as the pragmatists were transforming higher thought at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Chicago, and in the culture at large, another thinker was extending pragmatism well beyond the instrumentalist conception.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

By New Testament times the tension between prophecy and politics was expressed in the opposition between pragmatists like the Saduccees and Pharisees, who sought to adapt national life to the inevitable powers of the world, and visionaries like the Essene monks at Qumran or John the Baptist who anticipated the emergence of a new age of holiness after God judged this evil age.

Ideologically, we can perhaps see an eternal struggle between the pragmatist and the romantic at the heart of football, a deep - seated and universal struggle that finds expression throughout the games history, be it the Argentine struggle between the bilardistas and menottistas, or Mourinho and Guardiola's bunfights.

At the same time, the pragmatist in me sees the utility.

Voters at a polling place on West 58th Street said they cast their ballot for Quinn because they liked her «record of being a pragmatist.»

Keynes was the ultimate pragmatist, and at times this made him an elusive target for Hayek.

«At the moment, New York needs a caring pragmatist willing to address real concerns raised by caring parents and educators who see a system being manipulated from above to the detriment of their children,» he said.

Maloney had campaigned from the outset as a pragmatist with an independent voting record, touting his collaboration with Republicans at all levels of government and recent endorsements of him by state Sens. William Larkin Jr. and Greg Ball and New Windsor Supervisor George Green, all of them stalwart Republicans.

Altruism aside, I am at heart a pragmatist.

He is the author of two books — Islamic Identity, Postcoloniality and Educational Policy: Schooling and Ethno - Religious Conflict in the Southern Philippines (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and Teaching at the Crossroads of Faith and School: The Teacher as Prophetic Pragmatist (Lanham: University Press of America, 2002).

Pragmatists will always defer to mainstream gatekeepers who can generally be relied on to provide a steady stream of at - least - pretty - good offerings.

She listened to lectures by American pragmatists like John Dewey at The Cooper Union and other great thinkers at The New School for Social Research.

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.

Late in 2010, Jonathan Foley, who directs the Institute of the Environment at the University of Minnesota, wrote «Becoming a Climate Pragmatist,» an essay published online then and the following spring in the institute's magazine, Momentum.

I think Jonathan Foley, the director of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota, had it right when he wrote this spring that he had become a «climate pragmatist,» adding:

«The liberal blogosphere reserves its bitterest contempt not for the loathsome battalions of the right — Bush loyalists may be criminals and sociopaths, according to the left, but at least they are true to their beliefs — but rather for the centrists and pragmatists in politics and the media who apparently believe nothing, and who in their intellectual and moral depravity affect to see both sides of an argument.

At the start of our journey I said the roads of Disruptors, Pragmatists, and Liberal Arts Majors would quickly diverge, and I fear we've come to that fork in the road.

I am a pragmatist — Contract for practitioners lies at the root of much of what they do in commercial / corporate work.

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.

At the core of my bleeding heart pumps the soul of a pragmatist.