They will, instead, have to engage in some urgent pragmatism in order to prevent a recurrence of this weekend's rioting.
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Manufacturers are bringing an entirely new level of pragmatism to cloud computing, quickly deflating its hype by pushing for results on the shop floor.
To meet these challenges, America will need to rediscover some of the bipartisan pragmatism that prompted Mr Clinton to buck his left-wing critics and sign a controversial Republican law ten years ago.
But China's long history is also filled with moments when faith and pragmatism merged to create miracles.
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Mr Bush would do well to focus now on pragmatism over ideology.
Perhaps Mr Lieberman's eclectic approach to politics is based on pragmatism as well as morality.
It appears to be the dominance of pragmatism over principle, and old-style back-room bargaining over more accountable, albeit potentially slower-moving, politics.
In doing so, he would model a more humane approach to life than the cold pragmatism now eroding the moral fabric of Western democracies.
In late 2006, Daniel Ortega won the presidency of Nicaragua by moderating his campaign strategy to adopt a message of pragmatism and assuaging concerns of extremism.
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But if the gap between what can be achieved and the high ambition of Global Zero grows too wide, its claim to temper idealism with gritty pragmatism will be in jeopardy.
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It is also a picture of a politician whose ambition and willingness to take risks are tempered by pragmatism.
The new politics of pragmatism will be put to the test if, as is not impossible, Sinn Fein wins enough assembly seats to put Mr McGuinness within reach of becoming first minister.
Nothing would more clearly illustrate the new pragmatism at Boeing than to link up with a European firm which is part of the Airbus consortium that has recently done so much to damage its profits.
Paul, who is considering a presidential campaign in 2016, said the path to victory needs both principle and pragmatism, noting that the GOP is consistently losing campaigns on the West Coast, in New England and in Midwest states like Illinois.
That mix of pragmatism and idealism was put to the test during the crisis in Egypt.
As a politician, this Transport Secretary may have to draw on his reserves of Midlands pragmatism.
If the third way amounts to no more than moderate, centrist pragmatism, that might admittedly be no bad thing.
Mr Logevall revisits this period to consider the tension between idealism and pragmatism that still confounds American policymakers today.
It now seems that Lula Da Silva after years of remarkable pragmatism and centrism is returning to the days of radicalism.
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As a supremely political animal of infinite pragmatism, Mr Sarkozy seems to have decided that Mr Cameron is a bit of an amateur.
But Mr Sarkozy's unFrench, sleeves-rolled-up pragmatism means doing whatever it takes to get things moving.
For others, "pragmatism" became a winning message to facilitate the re-establishment of old dogmas.
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Conversely, Millennials will not have this luxury, obliging them to independently evaluate the intentions, ideology and pragmatism of each Islamist group.
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His defenders point to his driving energy and can-do pragmatism.
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Our path to a clean energy future must be charted with pragmatism or we risk getting lost along the way.
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De Gaulle's acceptance of Algerian independence was a belated pragmatism, forced on him by his failure to win over the Americans, first under Eisenhower and then under Kennedy.
Though tempered by pragmatism, Mr Chavez's chief inspiration appears to be the long tradition of Latin American populism.
The key to this is another of those infamous New York qualities: pragmatism.
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