Sentence examples for pragmatic standards from inspiring English sources

For Scowcroft, the principle is clear: by pragmatic standards, a humanitarian intervention without a strategic rationale is a mistake.

A set of pragmatic standards should be in place in the event of unpaid opportunities -- namely, laws that will help employers do the right thing and ensure that interns have meaningful professional experiences.

One key obstacle is the lack of a harmonised, high-quality and pragmatic standard for carbon accounting and reporting that is tailored to the particular circumstances of the investment community.

As a consequence, the old pragmatic standard of truth is applied more liberally here: all claims, statements and positions are true in the sense that all can, if properly recontextualized, lead to liberation which is to say, to their own self-overcoming.

The mean costs of acute care attributable to each study group (early parenteral nutrition versus pragmatic standard care) and the mean cost difference between groups, along with respective 95% confidence intervals, were obtained using the percentile method.

10 In the context of the 95% CIs around the estimate of zero effect on day-60 mortality rates, a cost-minimization analysis (CMA) was undertaken to compare total costs of care associated with the use of early parenteral nutrition with total costs of care associated with pragmatic standard care.

Within 24 hours of admission to an intensive care unit (ICU), critically ill patients unable to receive early enteral (gut) feeding due to a short-term relative contraindication were randomized to commence parenteral nutrition immediately or to receive pragmatic standard care.

The visual analog pain scale has been used as a pragmatic reference standard for palpatory pain provocation tests.

A primary limitation of our study is the use of a pragmatic microbiologic "standard" to compare the effectiveness of PDC as assessed by non-microbiologic methods.

Limitations include the uncontrolled environment of public houses and bars, use of a pragmatic reference standard, and wide CIs for some results due to low prevalence of those over the driving limit.

The purpose of the study was to benchmark quality and observe variability between experts rather than test clinical accuracy, so this pragmatic gold standard was thought to be sufficient.