One reason the business elite has not been more enthusiastic about Arroyo may be pragmatic.
They must at least be pragmatic and inspire the use of cleaner burning fuels.
It will be a test whether on an important issue Europe can be pragmatic and flexible in its decision-making.
If in certain areas you need to be pragmatic, in other areas, you need to stand up, and you can't budge.
In truth, France's Socialists have often had to be pragmatic in power.
As for big businessmen, they tend to be pragmatic by nature.
While technology implementations can also be pragmatic, it is relatively easier to plan the type of hardware, the software features and the capabilities that you need.
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But the two countries have buried ancient enmities, and the prevailing view in France is that the relationship should nowadays be pragmatic and based firmly on realpolitik.
Initial document reviews are not the time to be pragmatic.
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Learn as much as you can, find opportunities to flaunt your skills, become an avid student of human behavior, but be pragmatic about your place in the corporate solar system.
So the motivation for bolstering philanthropy is likely to be pragmatic: to fill in the gaps in state provision and to widen the financial support of non-profits, which are frequently channels for state cash.
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Jamie Dimon and his team have shown to be pragmatic in their leadership of the bank thus far, and we are confident they will raise the dividend when they feel the time is right.
But the thing about governors is that by nature, and if not by nature then by virtue of the position, you end up having to be pragmatic, because you have to figure out what works.
So just be pragmatic, will you?
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And you talked about the need for people to sort of move past their ideologies and embrace different points of view and be pragmatic and fact driven about the economy and there's an implicit criticism here of the U.S. that, you know, the U.S. should do this.
It has to be a pragmatic approach to a problem to find a solution.
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He has also vowed to renegotiate the eurozone fiscal agreement, but analysts said Hollande will likely be a pragmatic leader.
He has also vowed to renegotiate the eurozone fiscal agreement, but analysts say Hollande will likely be a pragmatic leader.
And they have issued a reminder that even the most abstruse and arcane branches of mathematics can sometimes be deeply pragmatic, too.
Eric let us be realistic for a moment and be more pragmatic about the energy resources of the world and the consequences of nuclear fallout.
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Those positions, like much of city governance, tend to be more pragmatic than partisan, and tend to focus on more tangible goals than national politics does.
Entrepreneurs, while known for being tenacious and steadfast about pursuing their goals and passions, may be more pragmatic and easy going than they are generally given credit for.
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And he described some Eurosceptics in his own party as "extreme right wing nationalists", saying Britain's approach to Europe should be "pragmatic" and not "driven by ideology or theology".
In China, the decisions will be more pragmatic.
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The prime minister may be proving more pragmatic and focused than expected, but many an obstacle lies in the way.
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In other words, Lula's government seems to be leaving the pragmatic road and embracing the demands of the most radical and most ideological factions within his constituency.
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The Lumia 920 can be a resolutely pragmatic phone.
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Her opponents worry that Ms Rousseff would continue a trend in Lula's second term to expand the state, and that she might prove to be a less pragmatic leftist than he was.
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