Sentence examples for pragmatic pressure from inspiring English sources

Globalization, in bringing cultures together, exerts its own pragmatic pressure.

That's something he's said all along, too: that no President, no matter how well-intentioned or progressive, can make any real change without the moral and pragmatic pressure of a grassroots movement.

In our own day, the threat would seem to come instead from a new trinity of technology, globalization and business, which seem to exert a pragmatic pressure on language, to undermine the idea of language as an end in itself.

There seems to be no pragmatic pressure in everyday communication to converge to a more exact definition of the notion of information.

There also may be pragmatic pressure: It's not difficult to imagine the many companies that offer benefits to same-sex couples with domestic partnerships will no longer offer them if marriage is now an option.

They point to a general regularity in the design of lexicons and suggest that pragmatic pressures may influence the structure of the lexicon.

In "The Three-State Solution" (Op-Ed, Nov. 25), Leslie H. Gelb has provided a road map that pragmatic thinkers, diplomats, pressure groups and others can follow to achieve a win-win result for all.

In 1997, the vouchers were replaced by cheques as a pragmatic response to pressure for more flexibility, so people could use the income to pay other expenses such as rent (focus groups, various, 28 September - 3 October 2013).

This was a pragmatic response to the pressure on police resources caused by serious crime and drug offences in the area, rather than liberal principles.

This also explains why philosophy departments have succumbed to this pragmatic "get a job" pressure and so have mistaken the philosophical destiny for a truth for the desire for a linguistic rule (i.e., a banal professionalization of philosophy) as Alain Badiou rightly argues.

But in late March it also antagonised Brunei and Malaysia, by sending a naval flotilla where those two nations have claims, at the southern tip of China's expansive "nine-dashed line", a vague cartographic claim dating from the 1930s.Individually, China's actions can be seen as pragmatic reactions to different pressures.