Sentences with phrase «pragmatists on»

The leaders of the world's cities are the great pragmatists on the world's stage.

Between the unrealistic dreamers on the one hand, and the asinine turbo - pragmatists on the other, not enough is getting done, not enough will get done, and in another 2000 years we'll dig up the hard disks on which these articles appear and see that things might be the same then, too.

Not exact matches

But McGeoy, ever the pragmatist, has a warning: «Be on the leading edge — not the bleeding edge.»

I will leave a fuller defense of Edmund Burke to Yuval Levin, who is an expert on the subject, but Marr badly mischaracterizes Burke as a kind of Deweyan pragmatist and experimentalist, when in fact Burke believed in the authority of tradition and precedent, in a predisposition toward reverence for the past, in the notion of God - given rights, and in the necessity of transcendental beliefs and institutions as a grounding for political society.

Back then, even for a pragmatist like James, Christianity was the kind of thing you had to take a stand on.

Another prominent liberal of an earlier generation, Governor Andrew Cuomo's father, Governor Mario Cuomo, a self described «progressive pragmatist,» also opposed casino gambling on the same grounds which Mayor LaGuardia did.

I feel that Rorty is toying with the pragmatists here by not taking seriously their insistence on the importance of considering the practical effects of our ideas.

He goes on to say that «interesting philosophy» of the sort done by the pragmatists is really «a contest between an entrenched vocabulary which has become a nuisance and a half - formed new vocabulary which vaguely promises great things.»

In this season of crisis in American religion, Jayber Crow is a consoling reminder of that faithful pragmatist in Jesus» sermon who builds his house on the rock so that it can withstand the storm and the flood.

Quite apart from this problematic classification of Anglo - American realists and American pragmatists (cf. GMPT 136 - 80) such conventional associations tend to obscure, rather than elucidate the influence of evolutionist theories on Whitehead's philosophical development, and do nothing to clarify the actual influence on, or to evaluate the compatibility of evolutionary cosmologies with, Whitehead's philosophy.

As a linguistic pragmatist I don't believe a tight definition is possible (and yes, I did epistemology in college, but I also did linguistics and psychology and they win out on this one).

And Gibson, despite his conservative views on some hot button social issues — most notably, abortion rights — has insisted that he is, in fact, a middle - of - the - road pragmatist, perfectly situated, ideologically speaking, to represent the swing district that is now NY - 19.

«Competitiveness» can be used as a convenient excuse for opposing popular tax rises on high earners, while presenting the right as sensible pragmatists and the left as unrealistic ideologues.

Conflicting views are offered as to where Osborne lies on the spectrum between pragmatist and ideologue.

The former governor, ever the political pragmatist, did not let that stop him from jumping on the Paladino bandwagon after the mad - as - hell Queen City champion defeated Pataki's preferred gubernatorial contender, former Rep. Rick Lazio, in the 2010 GOP primary.

Tony is one of the few Republicans not involved in the mess going on with the local and national GOP, he's a pragmatist and a grassroots campaigner.

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.»

For a time, a grand bargain between idealists and pragmatists allowed the party to flourish with a simple formula: Cantor and company could strategize and dream big while organized labor underwrote the movement with cash and bodies on the ground.

Since then, Maloney has focused on building a record as a pragmatist who is willing to both vote against his party when necessary and reach across the aisle to work with Republicans to get things done.

As both a pragmatist and a democrat, Cook declared his support for a Scottish parliament in a television studio on election night, and became a convinced advocate of the reform.

, who worked with Corker on housing reform, said Corker's retirement is a «wake - up call» that the chamber needs more pragmatists.

Like Gibson, Faso found electoral success by running as a moderate pragmatist with a firm grip on bread - and - butter issues — like the cost of home heating oil and price supports for dairy farmers — that matter to Hudson Valley residents, regardless of their ideology.

On his campaign website, Wadkins bills himself as «A new kind of Democrat: optimist, pragmatist, scientist.»

With this, the film becomes more sure on its legs — particularly after what should have been strong performances from heavy hitters Buscemi and Sevigny, but instead served mostly to run narrative paces (Buscemi as a surrogate father, Sevigny as a surrogate pragmatist) for Charley and Pete.

The patriarch, Andy (Martin Freeman) is the pragmatist, which the film establishes very early on when he climbs aboard a partly - sunken boat wearing full fishing gear.

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.

Both domestic dramas with a hint of the supernatural, they showcase a pair of imperfect pragmatists — respectively, Gloria (Carmen Maura) and Raimunda (Penelope Cruz)-- caught in the crucible of their everyday lives with no signs of slowing down, spinning an interminable amount of plates only to wash them straight after so they can serve their families dinner on time.

Above all, I am a pragmatist who works (and lives) with real teachers, real librarians, real administrators, and real students on a day - to - day basis, and I recognize that normal people tend to think about technology a great deal less than technology enthusiasts do.

Daniel Pink, best - selling author of Drive, says Wolk writes «with an idealist's heart and a pragmatist's spine, [and] he shows how to build an education system centered on students and true to the ideals of freedom, rigor, and fairness.»

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

Many pragmatists and scientists see attempts to link warming to temporal weather patterns (e.g. Sen. Feinstein's recent remarks on Capitol Hill) as a mistake, one that undermines the real debate.

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 «climate pragmatists,» such as Victor, Stern, and myself, argue that the point of Australian climate policy is not to solve the global climate problem, or to solve the problem of emissions from international trade, but rather to achieve politically feasible forward progress on domestic climate policy that can help set the foundation for future global policy (which as you and Victor have pointed out is the only way to deal with leakage, including coal exports).

Malcolm Turnbull prides himself on being a pragmatist.

In Edward Struzik's new book Future Arctic: Field Notes From a World on the Edge, he avoids the apocalyptic and offers a vision of how pragmatists could tackle some of the region's many environmental problems.

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.

If Zuckerberg is indeed a privacy pragmatist — as many people are — that's convenient for him: Facebook and other big tech companies tend to favor restrictions on data's use over restrictions on its collection.