This has changed my perspective completely from thinking of non-voters as indolent to thinking that they're tactical, even-handed and pragmatic. |
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He was highly practical and would come up with pragmatic solutions on various issues. |
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Other exceptions to compositionality are idioms, figures of speech, and expressions which are subject to pragmatic interpretations. |
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But yesterday the spokesman for Standard Life appeared to indicate the board was now taking a more pragmatic approach towards mutuality. |
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The magazine is pragmatic, plainspoken, populist, contemptuous of the Right's narrowness, and incredulous before the Left's convolutions. |
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Once he has satisfied the creative side of his brain, the pragmatic side takes over and he meticulously fabricates and assembles his knives. |
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Nevertheless, incumbent officeholders, candidates, and aspirants are pragmatic to a fault, and their main concern is with winning elections. |
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Nord apparently does not understand that justification for methodological naturalism is purely pragmatic. |
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This policy was based on two pragmatic considerations, and no guerilla organisation would overlook these. |
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She's being pragmatic about the need to sell her house but she's using it as an opportunity to make a fresh start. |
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However, the spokesperson said the board would take a practical and pragmatic approach to prosecutions. |
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When a community of inquirers shares their information openly, the sum of their knowledge approaches the ideal of pragmatic truth. |
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The lesson has certainly helped me rethink my politics and become more pragmatic and realistic in terms of our own struggle. |
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And Hattie Morahan's Iphigenia is a nervily curious girl who finally embraces the pragmatic necessity of death. |
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We live in an era of the pragmatic and effective bricolage of objects and all sorts of media. |
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It's interesting, Antonia, because brides and grooms are so much more pragmatic these days. |
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That response satisfied the newsies, and probably solidified Capuano's helpful positioning as a pragmatic moderate in a left-heavy field. |
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It is sorrowful, rueful, and pragmatic and not quite as heart breaking as many others on his album Northwest Passage. |
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The pragmatic modernism of the architecture marries well with the unfussy vernacular of the old barn. |
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But in pragmatic terms, it was the most cack-handed loss of a golden opportunity. |
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Unfortunately, while it is eminently pragmatic, that doesn't mean that it's actually morally right. |
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Rejecting terminological inclusivity as unnecessary frees us to accept a pragmatic understanding of the working-class. |
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In contrast, the pragmatic policy, consistent with his own perception of the conflict, viewed the war purely as a military contest. |
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He wanted a pragmatic organization of skilled workers committed to collective bargaining for better wages and conditions. |
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It matters not whether government acts in the common good out of compassion or out of a pragmatic desire to aid social cohesion or other motives. |
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The pair are known as pragmatic, hard-nosed businessmen, and they are thought to have little sentimental attachment to the club. |
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This leaves us with the realists, who come across as sensible, pragmatic moderates. |
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Human beings construct their politics in terms of pragmatic, expediential goals. |
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They can also be used for the basis of better short term pragmatic decision making and long term strategic planning. |
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The family's pragmatic response to the loss of their cattle station has been a great gain for travellers. |
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We really have become a nation of nonideological centrists looking for pragmatic solutions to real problems. |
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But for all his intellectual gifts, his kingship was essentially pragmatic. |
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All three authors point out that as a composer Stravinsky was very pragmatic. |
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In all but four of the interviews, the creatives noted that pragmatic considerations override personal preferences and motives when creating ads. |
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Thus, in a tangible and pragmatic sense, systematics is the framework for all comparative biology. |
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His reasons for embracing the Falklands were more pragmatic than patriotic. |
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I know I am recommending a pragmatic rather than a principled stand, but that is what national interest and foreign policy is all about. |
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In other words, I think that rural people are pragmatic and contemptuous of the left's seeming obsession with expensive esoterica. |
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As I read history, most of the founders were sensible and pragmatic men rather than visionary idealists. |
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As a philosopher, he was known for offering a commonsense, pragmatic approach to those theoretical issues that he knew required clarity. |
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My reasons for condemning the designer dogskin coats are much more pragmatic. |
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The approach of Elizabethans and Jacobeans to non-Europeans was normally commercial and pragmatic. |
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Photographs convey their singularity and pragmatic making, but don't capture their sly humor and evocativeness. |
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He balanced my more radical views of industrial relations with his more pragmatic outlook. |
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I am a pragmatic person, although I do have a romantic streak, and there are practical advantages to being wed. |
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The whirlwind tour was meant to humanize the low-cost leviathan so often depicted as self-serving and ruthlessly pragmatic. |
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It is a conflict that occurs on the highest realms of thought and faces the fiercest of oppositions from the pragmatic, dull-witted masses. |
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They are doing the right thing for once, so I'm not going to knock them because their reasons are pragmatic rather than ideological. |
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However, let us not get carried away by this success and be realistic and pragmatic with our oil windfall. |
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The Democrats decided they needed a different, more pragmatic approach in order to win. |
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Certain civil servants were advocating a more pragmatic approach to the situation, however. |
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But, instead of retreating into pointless recriminations and bitter words, he sought a pragmatic way forward. |
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We have long prided ourselves as being an exceedingly pragmatic and practical people. |
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But she's a pragmatic sort of kid, and she has kept smiling gummily as she waits for a whopping great cash injection from the tooth fairy. |
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An emphasis on this element indicate a practical, cautious, and pragmatic approach to life. |
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The question in today's edition encapsulates the government's pragmatic approach to labour relations. |
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Russians, he continued, should drop their illusions about the West and be quite pragmatic and even cynical in dealing with the West. |
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The result is an anachronic set of dialogues between introspective, idealistic, pragmatic and educated-sounding American characters. |
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Discs are the pragmatic suit. Sometimes people see them as plodding and a bit slow, but this is unjust. |
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Even if we forget about principle and adopt a pragmatic stance, there is little to be gained in appeasing gross violence by the powerful. |
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This review represents a pragmatic evaluation of two broad strategies of surveillance. |
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Those viewers of the more left-brained sort that experience love in a more pragmatic form most likely don't relate to that. |
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The traditionally so pragmatic, unintellectual conservatives are currently unusually well served in programmatic terms. |
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The results of this study show that participants had a pragmatic view of the preoperative skin test. |
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Thus his apparent liberality on this question rested on pragmatic considerations rather than on principle. |
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Other agents say their own negotiating strategies were a pragmatic response to a market they perceive as rigged. |
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It is a paradox that Augustine would not have accepted, but it is rooted in the pragmatic imagination as a workable metaphysics. |
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He is pragmatic about the idea of trendily shod herder kids loafing about the steppe. |
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The prefrontal lobe is known to be involved in pragmatic language processes and complex social cognition. |
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On the contrary, syntax is indispensable for a pragmatic language and pragmatics is indispensable for a syntactic language. |
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He was a political philosopher who became notorious for his ruthlessly pragmatic ideas. |
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Labour is pragmatic in what it does, it makes no bones about that sometimes it will lean left sometimes right. |
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If pragmatic managerialism was the order of the day what was the role of politics? |
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Other vessels and potsherds are decorated with animal figures that suggest a usage other than the merely pragmatic. |
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For decades, budgets have been slashed and visionary programmes terminated in favour of more pragmatic goals. |
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Today's aggressor is cunning, ingenious, pragmatic, and at the same time not limited by any moral constraints. |
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This is how what linguists term pragmatic markers have arisen in languages worldwide. |
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It is a pragmatic, strong-shouldered individual who excels in the art of compromise and is resourceful and dedicated to the pursuit of resources. |
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Many, perhaps most, are pragmatic people who deliberately cultivate a down-to-earth, practical image. |
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They came to favour Theravda Buddhism, which seemed more pragmatic and this-worldly in comparison. |
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There are many politicians in the free world who favor seemingly pragmatic cooperation with repressive regimes. |
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The very fact that a politician has strong convictions does not preclude him from being pragmatic. |
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Nationalist fundamentalism as a basis for French policy gave way to pragmatic intergovernmentalism. |
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Another aspect to this pragmatic understanding of American federalism is apparent in times of national crisis. |
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But these pragmatic matters have nothing to do with fundamental determinism. |
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Such references in the discussion are consistent with a pragmatic working document, not for sensationalism or public melodrama. |
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Indeed, for a pragmatic libertarian, the political landscape out there is pretty depressing at the moment. |
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Some less final, but highly curious methods have been used in the past to this pragmatic end. |
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There will be a balance of pragmatic and top-priority science with inspirational and groundbreaking exploration programs. |
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This is a programme that any pragmatic centre-right government could be proud of. |
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It favors pragmatic solutions over political partisanship and centrist positions over extreme ideology. |
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At the same time, this next generation of women is too practical, pragmatic, and tough-minded to be dismissed as ideologues. |
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This project, contextual and pragmatic, could have been the best of a bunch of major millennial monuments in a deconstructivist style. |
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But some pragmatic strategists fear that his voting record in Congress may be a bit too liberal. |
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Rejections of such proposals are often couched in general and conceptual terms, but pragmatic calculations are almost certainly more important. |
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If the argument s correct, a pragmatic account is inevitably methodologically, theoretically, and perspectively pluralistic. |
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He saw the pragmatic account of meaning as a method for clearing up metaphysics and aiding scientific inquiry. |
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I chose not to restrict myself to using either positivist or interpretive methods, but to adopt a pragmatic approach to data collection. |
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He sells himself as a pragmatic internationalist pitted against a reckless, ideologically driven unilateralist. |
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The upshot of this point of view is an activist or pragmatic conception of mind and knowledge. |
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The president is widely seen as more pragmatic, while the congressman is proudly, conservatively ideological. |
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Some Pascalians propose combining pragmatic and epistemic factors in a two-stage process. |
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Twinned to his pragmatic, populist social democracy has been a maddening Trotskyite temperament. |
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A revised Plan Colombia must be directed toward substantive, flexible, and pragmatic peace negotiations with the insurgent groups. |
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Yet family-man Staunton remains pragmatic, philosophical and uncomplaining about the now all-the-year-round demands of top football. |
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The trial was a multicentre, pragmatic randomised controlled trial stratified by centre. |
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It was used to investigate the different effects of ultramolecular potencies compared with placebo rather than pragmatic homoeopathy. |
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His sentiments about modern life and the criminal underworld reveal a pragmatic, yet easy going man, gradually helping to make his own vulnerability a point of concern. |
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However, a GOP operative who supports these laws may well be crudely pragmatic rather than bigoted. |
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The aim is very pragmatic and much less idealistic than, say, similar protests in Egypt or Turkey in the last few years. |
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But he was a canny political operator, far less ideological and more coldly pragmatic than proponents liked to admit. |
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The way to lead our lives is therefore along the path of pragmatic compromise, cynical wisdom, awareness of our limitations, resistance to the temptation of the Absolute. |
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Such a particle would generally be included in a grammar in a post-compositional pragmatic component, but, surprisingly, like also affects basic semantic attributes. |
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A highly moral man by all accounts in his personal life, he is making a coldly pragmatic decision to do whatever it takes to win. |
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So refraining from torture may not always make sense on a pragmatic basis. |
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Interestingly, Weir was skeptical of these most diehard and even surprisingly pragmatic about their lifestyle. |
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It began with a few Tea Party successes that emboldened and inspired Republicans to become more ideological and less pragmatic. |
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These pragmatic histories, describing in detail short periods of time, were soon replaced at Rome by the annalistic reconstruction of Rome's early history. |
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The environmentalism of the early 1970s was not just a pragmatic response to a technical problem. |
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It seems to be, at this intermediate stage of nominal determiner grammaticalization, a lexical feature of indefinites rather than an effect of syntactic or pragmatic factors. |
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Along with its associate organisations in Karnataka's Jungle Lodges and Resorts, it is also spreading eco-logic in a very pragmatic, and entertaining way. |
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Because this pragmatic nationalism should not at all infringe on their rights to live in safety and dignity. |
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The dominant philosophy of statecraft has become a form of pragmatic meliorism with markets and Western democratic institutions as the chosen means for improving our lives. |
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But by all accounts Khamenei is a pragmatic politician whose own survival is his first priority. |
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From budgets to the instability of nature, Burden of Dreams was destined to be less of a cinematic sensation and more of a pragmatic motion picture. |
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Father Peter is a likable character who seems to enjoy fishing and gambling more than sermonizing, though he has some pragmatic, down to earth advice for those who need it. |
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Certainly, these little microcosms of society that are our colleges should model, as closely as possible, what is best about our diverse, democratic, and pragmatic society. |
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Like most seriously successful businessmen, Mitt is a pragmatic problem solver, a sensible fixer, a technocrat. |
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A panel on the ancient Indian epic The Mahabharata studied the pragmatic morality of this living text. |
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He is pragmatic and transactional, doing whatever is needed to solve the problem at hand. |
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But her resilient, pragmatic approach won over voters who could arguably have been once bitten, twice shy about returning any sort of Thatcher to victory. |
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His closest aides were either blindingly loyal, or coolly pragmatic. |
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Less pragmatic, it calls for a nationalization of the banking and insurance sectors. |
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This North Star approach to the presidency is classic and deeply pragmatic. |
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This study offers a pragmatic account of verbal irony, arguing that verbal irony can be best treated as a special type of conversational implicature. |
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Indeed, the film is surprising in its unshakenly pragmatic outlook. |
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If, following Hancock, we say that Australians had a pragmatic, utilitarian, remarkably unsuspicious attitude to the state, this is only in part true. |
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You feel more inclined to take the safe option, more inclined towards sobriety than excess, more likely to settle for the sensible and the pragmatic. |
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Some suggest that younger generation cadres in the leadership circle would be pragmatic in orientation and make significant changes to state policies if they came to power. |
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Though hawkish himself, he is regarded as pragmatic in his approach. |
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In fact, the entire relationship has a very odd, pragmatic air to it that makes this stand head and shoulders above most of the rest of the field. |
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For this brief review, I have taken a pragmatic approach, collecting information from heterogeneous sources, with very different degrees of reliability. |
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Many suffragists decamped overnight to support the war effort, with leaders such as Mrs Pankhurst taking the pragmatic view that women's war work would earn them the vote. |
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For the first century of the Republic's life, this picture of great figures, intellectual and pragmatic, principled and far-seeing, dominated explanations of the Constitution. |
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One might be called pragmatic utilitarianism or instrumentalism. |
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The supportive view has been founded on the pragmatic basis that Britain is integrally linked through imports and exports with the broader European economy. |
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Instead, New Zealanders tend to be pragmatic interventionists. |
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Now as Western society becomes more introverted and private, such spaces are under threat, but the need remains for poetic and pragmatic responses to public life. |
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Many other details, from the staircase treads to the fixings, were also executed in plastic, while, for pragmatic reasons, the load-bearing structure was made of steel. |
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The pragmatic approach stresses the plurality of aims that inquiry serves. |
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It is no accident that the play is set in the eighties, when the arguments between beleaguered humanism and pragmatic functionalism were at the very height. |
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Or maybe he was never as pragmatic as I had given him credit for being. |
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He praised the practical and pragmatic approach of the college in developing a curriculum of courses designed to help students get on in the workplace. |
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Would not a semantically empty text, keeping only the pragmatic skeleton of a conventional letter, aptly embody the artificiality of such letters? |
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I discuss in relation to cross-cultural spoken and written data two such features, and argue that they may well lead to some form of pragmatic failure. |
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Might as well be pragmatic and just jump straight to the ugly preggo wear. |
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Pearson was playing political hardball, using a pragmatic strategy designed to prise extra resources out of a conservative electorate and its government. |
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Negligent he may have been in his personal appearance and his domestic arrangements but he was also pragmatic, punctilious and a stickler for detail. |
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More than ever, they are preoccupied with pragmatic matters, such as the lowest common denominator in the political math problem known as the electoral college. |
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I liked my very tall Aspieish doctor, loved his deep monotone and astute attention to detail and naturally, his pragmatic advice. |
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This was a pragmatic response, which avoided the further problems of codifying unwritten rules and reconstructing the entire government. |
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At this point, Konrad Schmid, a priest from Aargau and follower of Zwingli, made a pragmatic suggestion. |
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The sturdy furniture in the student lounge was pragmatic, but unattractive. |
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The practice of medicine in the early Middle Ages was in fact empirical and pragmatic. |
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Combustible bouquets were used by the ancient Egyptians, who employed incense within both pragmatic and mystical capacities. |
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Rae used a pragmatic approach of traveling by land on foot and dogsled, and typically employed less than ten people in his exploration parties. |
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The philosophy of pragmatic history treats historical happenings with special reference to causes, conditions and results. |
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Ancient Roman historians wrote pragmatic histories in order to benefit future statesmen. |
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This pragmatic use of monasteries ensured close ties between elites and monastic properties. |
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The picture we get of a pragmatic gradualist rather than a fierce logic chopper makes him a more human and understandable character. |
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Driven by pragmatic demands of budgets and manpower the British made deals with the nationalist elites. |
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The artist, generalizing from the facts of experience, combines concrete symbols absurdly so as to nonsensify pragmatic reality. |
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This difference can be explained with the help of pragmatic implicatures that capture the distribution of marked and unmarked forms. |
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Conversational implicatures are a species of pragmatic implication, implications of actions, of saying something. |
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And who can forget your electrifying speech at the 2004 convention, extolling the pragmatic purpleness of most of America? |
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So, for an absolute deontologist, instructions about what to do in the face of uncertainty can only be pragmatic. |
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In general, a mixed economy is characterized by a pragmatic division of the means of production between private ownership and public ownership. |
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With a background in criminalistics and lie detection, Eldon's approach has always been very down-to-earth, science based and pragmatic. |
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Better, I tell myself, to muddle through unphilosophically in cheerful, unreflecting, pragmatic ignorance. |
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The exterior of the piece is a pragmatic solution simply reflecting the complex geometry of the interior. |
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However, word order in Tamil is also flexible, so that surface permutations of the SOV order are possible with different pragmatic effects. |
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Best Quote Given his meticulous, pragmatic and unexcitable nature, it's not always easy to tease a blockbuster line out of Kenny Jackett. |
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The ideal of journalistic neutrality also has pragmatic origins. |
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Chicurel offer a pragmatic and gestalt-like presentation of standard music theory in the context of musical theater repertoire. |
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Therefore, humans adapt their past experiences of things to perform experiments upon and test the pragmatic values of such experience. |
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Punctuation is used and understood by texters to convey emotions and other social pragmatic information. |
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But, as far as I can discern, they do focused, pragmatic work. |
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In the late 19th and early 20th century several forms of pragmatic philosophy arose. |
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Exploring the potential of rehearsal via automatized structured tasks versus face-to-face pair work to facilitate pragmatic and oral development. |
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The latest victory by Ma and the Kuomintang translates into a victory of his pragmatic approach to relations with China. |
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The best modus vivendi for a secret Judaist in Elizabethan London was a pragmatic compromise between inward conviction and outward conformity. |
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Their methodical, pragmatic natures often cause them to start planning earlier than the young at heart. |
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Finals rarely live up to expectations, and Inter have a reputation for pragmatic play, just as Chelsea did under Jose You-know-who. |
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As a result, pagans could be pragmatic and almost utilitarian in their religious decisions. |
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Kurtul describes such connectives in four categories including adverseness, pragmatic adverseness, dissimilarity and pragmatic adverseness. |
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Thus, one crucial feature of pragmatic markers and parentheticals has been claimed to be that they are movable while sentence adverbials are not. |
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Mixner, both passionate and pragmatic, found a focus in his activism. |
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You cannot do that if you are tainted overmuch with a pragmatic period in power. |
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The pronoun ni '3SG' is usually not used in such cases, as its use carries the pragmatic implicature that the subject is not coreferential with the preceding antecedent. |
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Not unrelatedly, Barbara B. Varenhorst has described how game theory and simulations can be a pragmatic part of effective group counseling practice. |
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If thalassocracies are defined as democratic, commercial and pragmatic, tellurocracies are ideocratic, with a hierarchical organization and guided by a religious ideal. |
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His performances, while exceedingly graphic and visceral, involved a highly estheticized, personal, pragmatic challenge to accepted notions of violence, illness, and death. |
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This view of language is associated with the study of language in pragmatic, cognitive, and interactive frameworks, as well as in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. |
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Having mentioned the problems of estimating task effort, a pragmatic technique often employed in development projects, including those following a RAD approach, is timeboxing. |
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For nearly four decades Larry Horn has been championing a version of Gricean pragmatic reasoning in the analysis of a wide range of linguistic phenomena. |
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This doctrinal stance is intended to enable Anglicanism to construct a theology that is pragmatic, focused on the institution of the church, yet engaged with the world. |
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Results say otherwise, but with half the hosts' last 10 games against sides in and around the Euro slots the prices say trust a pragmatic approach against overhyped Tottenham. |
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Given Didion's resourcelessness, which is endemic to this pragmatic and therapeutic age, she has no choice but to find comfort in this rather paltry common wisdom. |
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The foundation of the town of Puebla was a pragmatic social experiment to settle Spanish immigrants without encomiendas to pursue farming and industry. |
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Euhemerism, as stated earlier, refers to the rationalization of myths, putting themes formerly imbued with mythological qualities into pragmatic contexts. |
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Poetry in general, and the paratactical poetry of the last hundred years in particular, poses any number of further problems for the critic attempting a pragmatic approach. |
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Another explanation is that the head-cover is an apotropaic symbol and the semantic value is, in this case, connected to the pragmatic nature of the ritual efficiency. |
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A conception of praxis as principled pragmatism is articulated, and the commitment to pragmatic antiracisms is contrasted with liberalism's policy of nonracialism. |
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However, Alexander also was a pragmatic ruler who understood the difficulties of ruling culturally disparate peoples, many of whom lived in kingdoms where the king was divine. |
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Instead, Turkish Gaullists unite behind the pursuit of Turkish national and strategic interests in a pragmatic and realistic way without giving much premium to ideology. |
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Polybius, who wrote in Greek, was the first pragmatic historian. |
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Despite these reforms it is uncertain if Henry had a grand vision for his new legal system and the reforms seem to have proceeded in a steady, pragmatic fashion. |
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The present analysis, focused on genre categories and pragmatic aims, shows that the colloquialising force of the semi-modal does not work in isolation. |
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