A pragmatic "expert-led" government would meet international demands and lead to the lifting of international sanctions that have starved the Palestinian Authority of revenues, and created mass unemployment.
At its most limited, it sees governance as a branch of mechanical engineering performed by pragmatic experts, and it doesn't see that every political act means engaging, one way or another, in a larger philosophical debate.
In the weeks since then, the official reaction has been unexpectedly pragmatic, leading some experts to suggest that China's new president, Hu Jintao, and his top aides may be somewhat less quick to crack down on dissent than their predecessors were.
Much of Mr. Putin's diplomacy seems pragmatic and constructive, experts said, as when the Russian leader visited North Korea in the summer and warned its leader, Kim Jong Il, that North Korea's ballistic missile program was posing a threat to stability in Asia.
Our approach to the sampling of national and local experts was pragmatic and purposive and based on team meetings, snowball sampling and the identification of experts through searching.
"You have the whole notion of people who want to stand on principle and those who want to be more pragmatic," said Professor Tim Hagle, an expert in Republican politics at the University of Iowa.
Aside from the expert assessment, a pragmatic approach for diagnosing delirium was also evaluated in order to reflect real-life situations in intensive care.
It is expected that his brother Raúl, 76, will be officially named president, and some experts consider him more pragmatic.
And experts say their strategic, pragmatic approach to entering the work force speaks of a coming wave of adults bent on entering the mainstream -- and staying there.
This is consistent with pragmatic approaches to agreeing consensus amongst experts.
In the very passage of the Theaetetus where, according to Socrates, Protagoras maintains the social relativity of moral judgments (167b c), he gives a pragmatic justification of the role of the expert, both in the individual and in the social context.
