Chilcot has a moral as well as pragmatic duty to publish now at least a summary of the lessons his inquiry has learned – and help avoid further tragedies.
The Microsoft-Yahoo pact represents a pragmatic division of duties between the two companies, instead of the blockbuster deal Microsoft, No. 3 in the search market, was shooting for last year when it bid $47.5 billion to buy Yahoo, No. 2 in search.
Otherwise, America's pragmatic and moral duty to help Iraq become a free nation will be almost impossible to fulfill.
17 For an illustrative effort to develop a standard for humanitarian intervention balancing U.S. humanitarian values with the costs of intervention, see Robert A. Pape, "When Duty Calls: A Pragmatic Standard of Humanitarian Intervention," International Security 37, no. 1 (Summer 2012), pp. 41-80.
The justification of a principled (rather than pragmatic or circumstantial) demarcation between duty and supererogation is reminiscent of the analogous demarcation between the legal and the moral.
That is, pragmatic belief formation could be one's moral duty.
This should be enormously helpful to taxonomists, whose foremost duty will remain to provide us with pragmatic species designations which attempt to reflect the underlying genetic reality.
Recently shopping for items that fulfill desktop duties but that no one would dare call pragmatic, much less bland, he visited Mantiques Modern in Chelsea, a store packed with unusual vintage goods.
The Flexibility in Duty Hour Requirements for Surgical Trainees (FIRST) trial was a national, cluster-randomized, pragmatic, noninferiority trial of 117 general surgery programs, comparing standard ACGME resident duty hour requirements ("Standard Policy") to flexible, less-restrictive policies ("Flexible Policy").
Photogenic, ambitious, with a stirring back story as a ruthlessly pragmatic killer of innocent women and children in the line of duty when she was in the military during the Iraq war – what's not to like about congresswoman Jackie?
This pragmatic and instrumental rationale is often considered utilitarian, although many moral doctrines endorse duties to protect patients and research participants.
