| In the battle between ideologues and pragmatists, sometimes one side wins out, at other times the other, and often a compromise is struck. |
| The juristic theory of the state that generated this image was fiercely opposed by pragmatists and pluralists. |
| And the heroes of these films are nearly always pragmatists, the middle ground between the emotionalists and cold rationalists around them. |
| Like the other small Gulf states such as Bahrain and Qatar, the Emiratis are realists and pragmatists, both politically and economically. |
| He, along with other pragmatists, feared that it could split his party into moderate and radical factions and undermine its ability to govern. |
| On Europe, the UK Independence Party has apparently sunk this strategy because it shows that only the Tories are the sensible pragmatists. |
