Sentences with phrase «so pragmatic»

Support for oil exploration, as I wrote earlier this month, is a prerequisite to passage of a bill, so a pragmatic president is walking his usual very fine line, with what appears to be a smart focus on the long haul.

Of course, no politician wants to see a revolt by parents who can't get their children into the school next door, so a pragmatic approach would be to mix places allocated by proximity with those allocated by ballots or banding, as Haberdashers Askes Academies in South London has done.

Nowadays men are so pragmatic and so rarely romantic that just a single flower will make this girl feel desired and feminine.

«Everything that we do is so pragmatic and proactive.

He showered his soon - be-successor with praise, saying it is rare to see a candidate who is «so honest or so pragmatic about the future.»

«I just feel the way the club is so pragmatic in its decision making, I don't see Arsene leaving.

Not exact matches

«We are taking a pragmatic approach to eSports so this is just one of the first steps, but down the road we can envision the opportunity for large - scale live spectator - filled events that not only highlight the game, but some of the NBA athletes that represent our brand alongside other pop and fashion icons,» Argent says.

And like so much of Google's new hardware, the Pixel Buds are far more pragmatic than flashy — and pragmatic is nice.

So were the market bulls right and I was wrong to say «stay pragmatic?»

So in conclusion, the situation will get worse for every Muslim unless they come with a pragmatic leader who preaches respect and coexistence with other religions and get rid of the nonsensical beliefs like mentioned above plus the veil and mistreatment of women.

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Karalen approached the issue from a pragmatic standpoint which so happen I support.

I'm guessing Obama is neither an atheist or a Christian; he's too pragmatic and logical to much of a believer in anything so he's probably agnostic.

As James expected the camping party to get back to the useful business of chopping firewood and cooking supper once he had «assuaged the dispute» by his pragmatic observations, so the application of process thinking in reference to the canonical wars now ravaging American higher education should be the means by which faculty might be led back from endless idle arguments to their real and proper work of designing good courses and teaching them well.

Being pragmatic, science has not been able to answer any of the above questions and so many more.

Where America was once pragmatic — and gloriously so, in that the «can - do» mentality of Americans was part of what made the country great — that pragmatism has become tied to psychological needs.

In historiogenetic terms, the republic has moved so far toward the pragmatic that historical reality is experiencing a Hegelian distortion, exemplified by a «progressive» desire on the part of elements of the elite to move toward «empire» and the perverse influence of foreign ideologies.

Our day - to - day pragmatic so - called «value - neutral» decisions are ranked in importance by the practical needs of such a world.

So in addition to the canonical regulation, the position of the Cardinal is eminently pragmatic.»

So if Royce failed to construct a genuine «community of the saints,» his Beloved Community was certainly a vast improvement on the pragmatic, Darwinian worlds which James and Dewey helped build.

Harrington calls his act «walking a tightrope between the sectarian irrelevance of the visionary whose vision is not connected with anything that's going on in this society, and the pragmatic irrelevance of those who so perfectly adapt to the daily struggle that they lose sight of the larger struggle.»

For example, there are those who have tried existential and personalistic categories; those who have applied linguistic analysis to biblical statements; those who have advocated the dehellenization of traditional formulations; those who have experimented with political and social categories of the secular city; those who believe in the relevance of pragmatic philosophy or Whiteheadian process philosophy, and so on.

So in the final chapter, Lanzetta questions post-Conciliar approaches to ecumenism where the «dogmatic» (to do with knowing the truth) is juxtaposed to the «pastoral» «which starts out from the historic and pragmatic fact, and on behalf of this aims at possible dialogue, without changing teaching, but de facto neither improving understanding of it, but even with the risk of altering its significance by virtue of the dialogue method chosen...».

Wesley reluctantly blessed the separation for a pragmatic reason: so many people were entering the church through Methodist ministry that there weren't enough Anglican priests to serve them the Lord's Supper.

As the former worshipped efficiency and the pragmatics of material production, so the latter invested the urban proletariat with ultimate historical significance, a twist on Hegel's «Last Man.»

James, who in so many respects offers pragmatic Christian wisdom, gives no answer to such a question.

However, it is clear that as far as physical blemishes were concerned, «the test was purely pragmatic; thus if the cohen [priest] was so well known that his blemish raised no curiosity, «the ban was removed» (Jewish Encyclopedia).

Consequently, radical empiricism fully conceived is not only an epistemological notion, but a pragmatic notion.3 (The pragmatic side of this lesson has been overlearned by most of today's neopragmatists, who are so skeptical of epistemological beginnings that they seem to treat knowledge as sheerly speculative and fasten to pragmatic tests to determine the viability of a speculation in a world that, for all they sometimes seem to know and care, is made only of words and wild guesses about how words might be newly arranged.)

So I carefully dressed Evelynn in her older sister's hand - me - down Christmas dress, but the older two couldn't be bothered: fashionista Anne wanted to wear harem pants and a lotus dress, pragmatic Joseph preferred his red hockey t - shirt.

It seems to me that, so far as public policy is concerned, some version of pragmatic pluralism is indeed the only live academic option.

For the perfected actuality passes back into the temporal world, and qualifies this world so that each temporal actuality includes it as an immediate fact of relevant experience» (351) 3 Some interpreters refer also to Whitehead's reference to the «superjective nature» of God in Process and Reality: «The «superjective» nature of God is the character of the pragmatic value of his specific satisfaction qualifying the transcendent creativity in the various temporal instances» (88).4 In this case, however, the actual warrant lies again on page 351, as it is under the light of that particular passage that the «superjective character» on page 88 is interpreted as a reference to the objectification of the consequent nature.

«Christocentric universalism» in theology, and «pragmatic realism» in ethics, so far as they played a strong role, were always provisional.

For myself I nevertheless find the discontinuities in nature so great and so obvious that I stick to the dualist position as an essential attitude of mind — I am, so to speak, a pragmatic dualist.

We see this by recalling the so called Modus Ponens principle of pragmatics.7

So I was interested to see whether the references Rauch provided really did represent serious efforts to show that one could accept same - sex marriage while still rejecting as a matter of principle, and not merely on pragmatic or prudential grounds, the idea of plural or polyamorous marriages.

While they must live and cope with realities of ontological import daily — suffering, love, death, the meaning or meaninglessness of their existence — they do so from an almost exclusively pragmatic and utilitarian perspective.

But he added as a good pragmatic empiricist, «We only assert this, that Success by unconverted Ministers» Preaching is very improbable, and very seldom happens, so far as we can gather.»

I take a more pragmatic approach and halve mine so that the juices can get to cooking and thickening right away, speeding up the process even further.

I just don't think it's pragmatic to discuss restricting guns because it is a non-starter with so many.

so in last 2 seasons wenger started being a bit more pragmatic, paying a bit more attention to defending.

Although his tactics were very pragmatic but he screwed so so bad at the most important moment and the sad part was his mentality.

Wenger might be smart (so he says) and a believer, but he is far from being pragmatic and crucial when necessary.

If Wenger is courageous enough to put aside his football experiment of the last 12 years or so and be a bit more pragmatic as well as using a players in a tried and trusted formula, then we can definitely compete on all fronts...........

I've always seen Arteta and Mertesacker as pragmatic choices that are keeping the captaincy warm until someone either grows onto the role (Wilshire or Ramsey for instance) or someone new is brought in who is already a leader and can take the armband after a year or so (Howedes for instance)

The boss is usually pretty pragmatic so he should be able to see that things will quickly get better for the Gunners, both on and off the pitch.

Thumbs or like / dislike are very popular online and seems to be the most pragmatic option so I would say leave things as they are but am open to other options

Because if they don't, I'm not sure why they're being so sleepily pragmatic this offseason.

The club's transfer business has been presented to us as a pragmatic purchase of proven Premier League performers (but then so were Ayew, Fonte and Snodgrass) when in fact it is no more than a short term survival strategy.

With seven days to go in the transfer window, time is running out for Spurs to make any deals happen this winter, with the club taking a very pragmatic approach so far, but this could be about to change.

European style might seem Pragmatic, but, so what?