Nuclear weapons advocates like retired General Larry Welch believe in it, but remain realists.
Those who call themselves "realists" implicitly accept that there may be adverse effects from abandoning Iraq.
This harks back to the New Realists school unfolding in France, late fifties, early sixties.
Realists and non-interventionists and doves of all stripes have few good choices in any election.
Drawing a sharp contrast with Gingrich would be useful for Huntsman, and encouraging to realists like myself.
Realists may well retort that the true story of 20th-century war-crimes trials was one of failure and compromise.
We are also cold-eyed realists about the challenges that reaching such a deal are presented -- or present themselves.
Global warming alarmists put their trust in the media, while global warming realists put their trust in the science.
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We need to be realists because we cannot trust ourselves to be moralists.
Spanish realists in 1898 knew that their country had long been in decline.
Despite what realists claim, law and morality are genuine forces in world affairs.
Some people would even suggest those types are just being realists, that any sense of privacy on the Internet is an illusion anyway.
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Here was a wealthy couple copying European esthetics, at a time when realists like Thomas Hart Benton and Reginald Marsh were in vogue.
If, as the media warned, the public would reject a list comprised of sober-minded realists, one would have expected that support to drop.
The realists think they can engineer a recovery by more central planning, forcing whole economies to run surpluses or deficits as their theories suggest.
These so-called realists in this instance are the dreamers, the fantasizers.
Realists understand that objectives of the U.S. and Chinese governments will not always be the same, thus U.S. and Chinese policies will not always be congruous.
Yet a number of what might be called realists at smaller Swiss private banks aren't convinced Swiss pols will stick up for the nation's bank secrecy and traditions this time.
The Talladega murals are the deserved stars of "Rising Up, " but the show as a whole affirms Woodruff's place among America's pre-eminent social realists of the 1930s and early 1940s.
Mr. PETER BEINART (Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations): Where neoconservatives break from realists is, you know, their belief that America can extend its power very dramatically without producing a backlash.
And then there are the realists (a group to which I hope I belong) who would say that we are not in a recession yet but we might as well be.
Similarly, pessimists - or perhaps realists - within the education sector are not expecting any kind of miracle recovery for Wales at the next round of international PISA tests for pupils.
It will take visionaries like Taniguchi to bring the hydrogen economy closer, say realists like Masasuke Takata, a professor at Nagoaka University of Technology in Niigata, and to keep the public's expectations a few notches below the utterly impossible.
And within America, there has long been a tension between those who describe themselves as realists or idealists -- a tension that suggests a stark choice between the narrow pursuit of interests or an endless campaign to impose our values.
Given its assertion that states base their foreign policies on unsentimental assessments of their national interests, true realists would argue that there is no rational bar to enemy states sharing the same allies if doing so advances their national interests.
While Rice says that in foreign policy "America's values are extremely important, " she hews closer to the tradition of Korbel and other realists, such as Hans Morgenthau, who place greater weight on defending strategic interests and tending to the balance of power.
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