Sentence examples for pragmatic effort from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Pronk, at a news conference Thursday night, said the summary was a pragmatic effort to cut through competing interests.

Others defended it as a pragmatic effort to win Security Council backing for lifting sanctions on Iraq, unfreezing assets and getting oil flowing again to prime a collapsed economy.

Developed after a decade of research by University of Michigan internist David Humes, this hybrid of living cells and artificial structure is at the forefront of a pragmatic effort to find an effective treatment for people whose organs have failed.

So we should be seeing the G.O.P. leadership and voters fiercely united and single-mindedly motivated in this Presidential primary season by a ruthlessly pragmatic effort to identify and fortify the candidate who is the most irresistible and effective instrument of Obama-eviction possible.

And instead of demanding new preconditions for talks -- an apology for the Cheonan, for example -- we should mount a gradual pragmatic effort to engage in new discussions, not as a reward for bad behavior or to talk for the sake of talking, but to make us more secure.

Along the way, promoting democracy in Russia has largely faded from the administration's agenda, overtaken by a clear-eyed, pragmatic effort to defuse the disputes over missile defense, the future of the two countries' strategic nuclear forces and the array of conventional forces in Europe.

This has led some liberals to argue that the Occupy protesters should find a way to imitate the more pragmatic efforts of unions and environmentalists.

But for the tea-party movement, political choices often appear to be expressive acts and identity statements, rather than pragmatic efforts aimed at legislative achievements.

It wants a nation united by the idea of Hindu culture, while Mr. Vajpayee has apparently sanctioned Mr. Laxman's pragmatic efforts to reach out to Muslims.

The course chronicles the "love-hate" attitude that Americans have shown toward their cities across history, evident in both utopian and pragmatic efforts to reconceive how and in what shape cities and urban regions should grow.

City and suburb are experienced as the product of design and planning decisions informed by cultural and economic forces, and in relationship to utopian and pragmatic efforts to reinterpret urban traditions in search of contemporary alternatives.