Sentence examples for pragmatic need from inspiring English sources

However, in a time of pragmatic need, an increasing reliance upon this mode of funding seems inevitable.

That is because whatever Labour's pragmatic need might be it must be infused with a new sense of idealism.

There may be a pragmatic need to engage with Islamist groups in countries where they are among the only organised form of opposition to an oppressive regime.

It is the pragmatic need to recognize racial divisions despite their deeper irrelevance that bedevils both the Census Bureau and the many Americans, now filling out their forms or talking to census takers, who resist rigid racial categorization.

On the controversial plans by E.ON to build a new coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth in Kent, Browne said that the pragmatic need for a diverse energy supply should triumph over environmental concerns.

President Obama and his economic team are already trying to navigate between the deep popular anger over reckless financial practices and the pragmatic need to coax support from the financial industry for regulations they almost reflexively oppose.

I'm sympathetic toward these pragmatic needs: we all have them.

I'm not suggesting that the spiral design was driven purely by pragmatics, only that it serves pragmatic needs.

The left of the Lib Dems are increasingly dismissed as woolly idealists who don't understand the pragmatic needs of wielding power.

It is difficult enough, he said, keeping his emotions separate from the pragmatic needs of wrangling with lawmakers over issues that have so dramatically changed his life.

He urged people to combat corruption, a top grievance in the protests shaking Brazil, and called on bishops to focus on the pragmatic needs of congregants, shifting emphasis from the abuse scandals that have plagued the Vatican for years.