Sentence examples for a pragmatic thinker from inspiring English sources

"He's got his political views, but he's a pragmatic thinker.

And since Obama is a pragmatic thinker, it's also not obvious that he will.

As a budget official in the Nixon and Ford administrations, he developed a reputation as a pragmatic thinker on fiscal matters, inclined to run a lean and efficient government, but skeptical of ideological extremes.

This is just one example of why Ms. Kagan is an innovative, pragmatic thinker, one who will be an excellent addition to the court.

I mentioned pragmatic in the title because Dennis couldn't succeed at so many tasks without being a level-headed and pragmatic thinker.

In her tenure at State, there has been a re-emergence of the more pragmatic thinker who once wrote in Foreign Affairs magazine that the president of the United States must remember that the American military "is not a civilian police force".

In "The Three-State Solution" (Op-Ed, Nov. 25), Leslie H. Gelb has provided a road map that pragmatic thinkers, diplomats, pressure groups and others can follow to achieve a win-win result for all.

Especially pragmatic thinkers will consider whether an idea is feasible before they adopt it, says Michael Slater, professor of communication and behavioral sciences at Ohio State University.

These foreign policy scholars, and many of those who agree with them, are serious, intellectual and pragmatic thinkers, not just some talking heads on cable news.

James's impact was equal to Emerson's in summoning modern thinkers to a pragmatic approach to religion.

Other thinkers instead had a pragmatic approach to prime matter: alchemists like the Swiss physician Paracelsus (1493 1541) sought to find a principle to which every substance could be reduced.