It is to hope that the next ones with good field position will have more guts, and more pragmatism, than you ever did to get the job done.
They will start to show more pragmatism, perhaps get lucky, perhaps the Democrats will overplay their hand on taxes and bailouts, but they will be back: the US electoral system is built that way and big business has too much invested in the party to let it fail (just call it the Citigroup of political parties).
However, he is also expected to act with more pragmatism than his predecessor.
In any case, it is almost certain that Susic, whose side were easily beaten by Alejandro Sabella's Argentina back in November in St Louis (2-0), will have to change his approach and show more pragmatism, especially in the matches against Argentina and Nigeria.
As with John Kennedy -- another young president whose administration "came into office equipped with brain power" and "more pragmatism than ideology" -- Obama's policy adrenalin is now surging to engorge something called counterinsurgency.
Sadiq Khan told business leaders that the vote for Brexit did not mean the government needed to choose a route of "economic self-sabotage" and urged Theresa May to approach the UK's departure from the EU with more pragmatism.
It would no doubt be better if each of us experienced less terror in the face of death, more pragmatism about medical choices — if we lived in a culture that taught us, from our youth, to be mindful of our mortality, wise in our apportioning of time.
Mugira's family lives on a 500-acre ranch, and one sunny day in November, the wiry 26-year-old showed me around, explaining, with some sadness but more pragmatism, why the Ankole breed that sustained his forebears for so many generations is now being driven to extinction.
"There's just more pragmatism today".
It was less Barbara Cartland, more pragmatism, but we remain nonetheless grateful.
