Sentence examples for pragmatic role from inspiring English sources

In an interview, Mr. Lhota described himself as a champion of the individual who nevertheless believes that government, in moderation, can play a pragmatic role in bettering society.

In the absence of any better system, he said the zones "can play an important pragmatic role in moving forward economic and educational opportunities, particularly the right to work, for Syrians in their region of origin".

Just days after Mr. Fink's letter was released, Martin Lipton and David Karp, Wall Street lawyers at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, wrote to their clients that "it is a helpful sign that a major institutional investor is willing to take a direct and pragmatic role in governance issues rather than outsourcing this responsibility to a proxy advisory firm or agitating for short-term results".

That may sound unlikely, but wet peatland agriculture, known as paludiculture, can produce profitable crops such as reed, alder and moss.Add in other reasons to protect wetlands from their pragmatic role providing clean water and flood protection to the sentimental one of providing homes for wildlife and the case for rewetting is strengthened.

A basin-wide governance institution can instead play a pragmatic role.

The centrality of the not-self doctrine in Buddhist thought is explained on the basis of its pragmatic role in guiding the adept on the path to enlightenment.

Some of its stylistic touches had hidden pragmatic roles.

Artists became less concerned with beauty in favor of exploring the tensions and messiness of contemporary life, while designers were relegated to pragmatic roles.

Visual logic models had played particularly pragmatic roles in prior case studies by Huggins and Jones (2012) and Huggins and Peace (2014).

If we even accept the pragmatic preparatory role of education, how can we value the ability to solve relatively silly word problems in a stressful environment more than more abstract problem-solving skills?

Beyond NATO, Russia under Mr. Putin has been looking for a pragmatic international role, one that would give its battered economy and industries a chance to compete in Western markets, while also taking up diplomatic tasks that would maintain its prestige as a great power, however tarnished that image has become over the last decade.