Sentence examples for pragmatic manner from inspiring English sources

Principle E: Institutional investors should address and attempt to resolve differences with companies in a constructive and pragmatic manner.

But the (then) EEC responded to this event in a pragmatic manner, enabling a united Germany to become a member without protracted negotiations.

At the same time, he often spoke about the oil in a blunt and pragmatic manner, which some locals found upsetting.

Its watchword was "consensus," and its instrument was the federal bureaucracy, whose vast resources it undertook to direct in a pragmatic manner conducive to the welfare of all.

Factors such as ensuring balanced loads for workers, minimization of inter-cell movements of workers, providing adequate levels of labor flexibility, etc. are considered in a pragmatic manner.

Realism is a very sensible way of conducting government, but if you are going to act in a pragmatic manner, you only make yourself look stupid and hypocritical if you hand out lessons from the pulpit beforehand.

Yet his abrasive manner, his pragmatic style and the simple fact that he is a Portuguese man in the Spanish capital rub Madridistas the wrong way.

This factor, as with the other Colorado River factors, is to be applied in a pragmatic, flexible manner with a view to the realities of the case at hand.

In "Interesting Times," he explains his allegiance in a pragmatic-loyalist manner, to the effect that many people were saved by Communism from becoming corpses, and that one was obliged to choose a side.

Thus, the HPDP approach provides an opportunity to analyze complex hydrological field environments in a pragmatic, time-efficient manner.

The US treasury secretary, Jacob Lew, stressed to his European and British counterparts "the need for negotiations to take place in a smooth, pragmatic and transparent manner".