Sentence examples for pragmatist of from inspiring English sources

Hillary Clinton is neither saint nor prophet; she is a pragmatist of deep experience and purpose.

Franklin was the arch modernizing pragmatist of the American founding, a guy who always had his eye on the main chance".

He will quickly be forced to define who he is, how flexible he is, whether he will be an ideologue, a pragmatist of something in between.

"The mere fact of being in love with somebody is a very good reason for not marrying them, in my opinion," says Amabelle Fortescue, the great pragmatist of Christmas Pudding.

Dan Meridor, deputy prime minister and minister of intelligence and atomic energy, and a leading pragmatist of Likud, recently told reporters that it was an "open question" whether the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank was ready to take the "minimum steps needed" to meet Israeli requirements for an end-of-conflict agreement.

I see Obama as a pragmatist of the first order, not an idealist or an ideologue.

We can begin with James's 'radical empiricism', of which he said that 'the establishment of the pragmatist theory of truth [was] a step of first-rate importance in making [it] prevail' (1909: 6f).

For the pragmatists of New Labour, what was good was what "worked".

The traditionalists accuse the pragmatists of selling out the sector for the sake of their own careers.

Against Ms Vitrenko or Mr Simonenko, the pragmatists of the Moroz-Marchuk stamp, as well as Ukraine's beleaguered liberals, would probably rally to his cause.

I have no idea whether, like me, he has found out about the house's history, but the Islington property market makes pragmatists of us all.