Sentence examples for more pragmatic terms from inspiring English sources

Executives at Microsoft talk in far more pragmatic terms.

It's as if Republicans, even if they think in more pragmatic terms, are not allowed to even consider raising taxes and certainly should be pushing at all times to cut taxes further.

But the ideals of European unity have never been embraced by a majority of Britons, and the country tends to see its membership in more pragmatic terms than most continental nations do.

Any departure from the state of health, then, is a disease, whether health be measured in the theoretical terms of normal measured values or in the more pragmatic terms of ability to function effectively in harmony with one's environment.

In more pragmatic terms, it simply seems problematic that a company boasting an annual revenue of over $2 billion, 572 locations and 21,000 employees can enjoy religious freedom.

To inform initial management decisions, therefore, it seems to us more pragmatic to identify in operational terms, as done in this study, febrile well-appearing infants at risk of bacteriuric sepsis.

Dilma Rousseff could be a more pragmatic president in her second term (see article).The scene is set for a new realism in Latin America.

Last month it similarly agreed to pay Paraguay more for electricity from Itaipu, the hydroelectric dam they share.By common consent, policy towards South America has become more pragmatic in Lula's second term.

The way that McCullum, and indeed Alastair Cook, opted away from what might be termed a more pragmatic approach on what was a terrific pitch contributed to a first Test that simply bounded along: 1,610 runs were scored, more than any other match at Lord's, and at a rate that brought more than 370 per 100 overs.

It wants to bring war criminals to justice, but knows that any attempt to nab the most notorious, such as Ratko Mladic, the Serb general, or Mr Karadzic himself, may in the short term undermine more pragmatic Serbs such as Mrs Plavsic.

"Unlike the debate about the action research of the 1970s, the discussion about this term is more pragmatic and less politically motivated", so Unger et al. [17, p 25].