This warming relationship with Moscow is partly for pragmatic reasons (securing Russian energy, diversifying trade relations) and partly for ideological ones (Orban likes Putin's brand of illiberal democracy).
According to the analysis of scholar Ruhollah Ramezani, even during periods of unmitigated hardline rule, Iran's leaders have adopted pragmatic policies to secure the long-term survival and advancement of the Islamic state, an approach Ramezani calls "spiritual pragmatism".
Maximal waiting time guarantees for clinical treatment are a pragmatic means to secure timely care provision and to keep the consequences of waiting acceptable.
The analysis reveals a complex and interdependent interplay between attempts at securing pragmatic, moral and cognitive legitimacy with three key constituencies – clients who commission the sustainability assurance services; (socially constructed) non-client users of the assurance statements; and the firm's internal Risk Department that approves the wording of assurance statements.
"Even though Denmark and Sweden are close, we're quite different and also we have different ways of working," said The Bridge's Swedish co-producer Anders Landstrom, who sees European co-productions as a pragmatic solution to securing funding for high-quality, original television – despite occasional difficulties with language and working practices.
They recognize the need to reach a permanent agreement with the Palestinians and security arrangements with the pragmatic Arab states to secure Israel as the democratic state of the Jewish people.
Obama's tenor shift on Iran was vital to establishing the pragmatic relations necessary to secure serious nuclear concessions--and prevent a war.
In his budget speech last year Mr Osborne said his fiscal charter was "sensible, pragmatic and it keeps Britain secure".
From a pragmatic point of view, we also had to secure our systems to keep our customer data secure and keep our systems running.
Muḥammad ʿAlī was a pragmatic statesman whose principal objective was to secure for himself and his family the unchallenged possession of Egypt.
His pragmatic side showed immediately after he finally secured the Republican nomination in 1980, when he chose the relatively moderate George H. W. Bush, his bitter foe during the primaries, as his running mate.
