Sentence examples for pragmatic judgment from inspiring English sources

He still evades the pragmatic judgment that Bush's consequences are the inescapable results of neoconservatism and not its aberration.

Philip Morris's shift may reflect a pragmatic judgment that it will eventually have to accept some form of regulation and that opening the door to negotiations now could produce a better outcome for the company than total resistance.

Not because they are naturally well-mannered, but because of a pragmatic judgment that to be "respectful" to Indonesia as a sovereign nation, respectful towards its judicial system, respectful to its political leaders, was the best way – the only way – to save two Australians from being taken out in the middle of the night and shot dead.

A pragmatic judgment was made that the sample size for the economic evaluation should be determined by the limits of detection of differences in the primary outcome measures in the main trial.

The greater reliance on ITS to present abstract, construct-driven material may reflect and suggest pragmatic judgments about the learning objectives for which applications of ITS are most likely to provide greater return on investment.

Until the creation of the NIHR in 2006, NHS R&D funding was allocated to sustain the level of activity in large teaching hospitals and it is argued to have been "far more a product of history, politics and pragmatic judgments than any rational analysis" [ 126].

The researcher then developed a meta-pragmatic judgment questionnaire including the 48 dialogs, with the last turn of each dialog underlined.

The fundamental difference in uses of judgments is between (a) theoretical (e.g., scientific) judgments and (b) non-theoretical (e.g., pragmatic, moral, aesthetic, or teleological) judgments.

On the latter disambiguation, noncognitivism is the pragmatic view that moral judgments are a type of speech act that is neither true nor false, which is equivalent (most assume) to the denial that moral judgments are assertions (i.e., the denial that moral judgments express belief states).

Another limitation of our study is that our results are, for pragmatic reasons, based on judgments by Dutch experts and partly on Dutch grey literature which may reduce transferability to other countries.

At 79, the principal owner George Steinbrenner has receded almost fully to the background, shifting control of the Yankees to his son Hal, who trusts the judgment of the pragmatic general manager, Brian Cashman.