Republicans and Democrats are more ideologically divided, and less inclined to make pragmatic concessions.
In a striking gesture of conciliation, the Maoists agreed in April last year that the army need accommodate only 1,450 of their ex-fighters (not the 12,000 they earlier wanted "integrated").Such pragmatic concessions provoked a hardline Maoist faction to break away.
Assimilation is pragmatic, but pragmatism calls for concessions that compound and come to feel like a chronic ache.
Such a pragmatic approach would be a concession to the political realities prevailing here.
Obama's tenor shift on Iran was vital to establishing the pragmatic relations necessary to secure serious nuclear concessions--and prevent a war.
All the moves are sensible, pragmatic steps, but they have the feel of concessions to an era of reduced growth and diminished expectations for Microsoft, the premier technology growth company of the last two decades.
Anti-Castro optimists might hope that, especially given Cuba's rapid loss of Latin American allies (including its economic lifeline, Venezuela), the pragmatic Raúl might make conciliatory moves or even concessions toward Trump, whose bluster now has consequences.
Although existing infrastructure and long-term agreements (such as hydropower concessions) constrain present-day and future decisions, a pragmatic strategy of adaptation can, in many cases, accommodate evolving scientific understanding and societal expectations.
It is worth noting, this opt-out stems not from the patient's supposed "right not to know" but from a pragmatic acknowledgment of the fact that the effective operation of the scheme may depend on making this concession to patient choice.
But now, in London, "We do the real thing .A pragmatic bunch, Chinatown's restaurateurs many from Hong Kong families who arrived in the 1950s and 1960s have made many concessions to British tastes.
