That was not the move of a doe-eyed liberal but a pragmatic, focused politician who did exactly what he needed to win.
Pragmatic focussed enumeration, a process designed to reduce the cost of identifying members of a target population for which there is no sampling frame, was used to identify addresses at which members of this community lived (Sproston and Mindell, 2006).
It is probably fair to say that relevance theorists are mainly responsible for contemporary pragmatics focusing not only on what is conveyed beyond saying but also on saying itself, and for the fact that, as we shall see below, contemporary philosophical pragmatic theory tends to focus on the extent to which pragmatics 'intrudes' upon the traditional turf of semantics.
Hook's approach to the naturalistic metaphysics of pragmatism was compatible with the pragmatic focus on the "foreground," that is, the interaction between human beings and their surroundings which could result in the transformation of the given nature of things.
"Don't companies have to do it [protect workers' rights] anyway?" With most agreeing on this point, the discussion then took a more pragmatic focus.
But Mr. Abu Ismail's surge raises the prospect that the winner might not be a more secular or liberal figure, but a strident Islamist who opposes the Brotherhood's pragmatic focus on stable relations with the United States and Israel and free-market economics.
Early on, even Mr. Zuma's skeptics praised his solid cabinet appointments and pragmatic focus on the country's fundamental problems: a failing education system, one of the world's worst AIDS epidemics and high rates of joblessness and violent crime.
9. Hansen (1992) insightfully highlights this contrast and stresses the pragmatic focus of Mohist epistemology (pp. 104, 139).
Hence, the pragmatic focus on the planning and design elements that can be implemented and would improve development practices in the city.
