Raised on a diet of margarine sandwiches and tense negotiations with the "social", Janie slowly learns the laws of the urban jungle: pragmatically adopting and shrugging off sectarian allegiances and religious convictions with each new neighbourhood.
Given the small differences between certain scoring systems, clinicians may equally prefer to either pragmatically adopt the simplest model (appropriate to their healthcare setting) or opt for the best established and widely validated systems.
If thinking that someone who you thought had harmed you was actually a Buddha acting to provide you with an opportunity to develop patience helps you develop this perfection, then it is pragmatically wise to adopt this view.
But they will pragmatically take them wherever they find them.
The repeated forward-backward translation procedure was adopted as the most suitable strategy that was pragmatically possible.
In our study, we adopted the second approach; studying the uptake of guideline recommendations pragmatically, by building on already known factors, instead of linking to theoretical perspectives.
"If we produce something... which is pragmatically useful and will go to a vote I hope it will be adopted".
Further, many adopted older views rooted in the Contemplation Sutra, in which nembutsu recitation was seen pragmatically, as a means of cancelling the karmic effects of one's past evil.
The revised criteria were adopted after recruitment of 3 participants (1 male) in order to enhance recruitment and pragmatically reflect clinical routines.
This policy has already been adopted by laboratories that use targeted NGS — that is, gene panels — instead of exome (or genome) sequencing, to pragmatically reduce the "hassle" of dealing with IFs.
Instead of looking pragmatically at the island's possibilities within the inter-American system and understanding that the best scenario is for the OAS and the CELAC to play complementary roles, Havana has adopted a counterproductive confrontational attitude.
