Sentence examples for pragmatic streak from inspiring English sources

Mr Cameron has his own pragmatic streak, allies say.

Mr. Long is not without a pragmatic streak.

As mayor of Taipei between 1994 and 1998, he had shown a pragmatic streak.

Clough and Robinson are no mugs and have a very strong pragmatic streak.

Perhaps that pragmatic streak has had an effect on his political strategy.

"I believe Humala's a nationalist with evolving views and a pragmatic streak," Mr. Richardson said in an interview.

Kennedy cited D.C. Council members Charles Allen (D-Ward 6) and Robert C. White Jr. (D-At Large), members of the council's progressive bloc who also have pragmatic streaks, as his role models.

Abbey's novel also, I think, helps to make visible an important difference between the north American and British traditions of environmental literature: viz, that the American tradition possesses a pragmatic, effective streak which is largely lacking in Britain.

Though energetic and prolific in his scholarship, Hogwood sometimes displayed a pragmatic and wilful streak.

Despite an anti-American streak, Mr. Putin is deeply pragmatic, Dr. Stent said.

Essentially a decent man with a tough streak, he took a pragmatic decision and shelved the decency.