"But, as you indicated, he has actually made some more pragmatic statements after his election.
"With Hamas, we can do whatever we wish," says an Israeli who talks to it.Calming pragmatic statements by Muslim Brotherhood leaders in Cairo hint at an accommodation.
It seems like a strategic misstep, and so, for this to make sense, I have to believe that Joan's thinking was not so much pragmatic as a statement of her disgust: a furious response to the news of that closed-room discussion among men she knew — and of course, a way to get into that room.
When asked if they meant that Malaysians should take up arms, they refused to rule it out.In reality, PAS is more pragmatic than these statements suggest.
Sykes, who said she was a "moderate person who represents a moderate and pragmatic district," echoed that statement, saying she did "not agree" with the Republican approach.
The CONSORT statement on pragmatic trials was used to assist with the design [ 21].
We report on this trial using guidelines from the extension of the consort statement of pragmatic trials.
According to the extension of the CONSORT statement for pragmatic trials, special emphasis should be put on the generalisability (external validity) of the results [ 27]: Our trial is characterised by a high level of internal validity.
But behind the uncompromising public statements, more pragmatic approaches to those thorniest of issues are being discussed seriously among Arab leaders for the first time.
van Fraassen (1980), especially Chapter Six and Achinstein (1983) are classic statements of pragmatic approaches to explanation.
Thus, the pragmatic thesis that normative statements are empirical appraisals that are open to confirmation by future consequences is not refuted by Stevenson's identification of disagreement in attitude, since the discovery of future facts may bring about a change in attitude.
