We use it in a pretty pragmatic way, to be honest.

Whenever difficulties arise on specific issues, they can be solved in a pragmatic and efficient way.

The São Paolo Consensus was considered the way towards a pragmatic and well focused agenda to help countries achieve sustainable development.

Let us be pragmatic.

A pragmatic approach was required.

During the Afghanistan conference in Bonn in 2001, Iran behaved in a pragmatic, results oriented way an approach that went completely unrewarded by the US.

India, Brazil, and South Africa are using such formats in a pragmatic way to pursue their interests, or simply to demonstrate their increased international weight.

There are as well pragmatic considerations.

Both had previously been pragmatic men.

Obama s approach is self avowedly pragmatic.

A. Saudi Arabia can be pragmatic

Surely a more pragmatic way can be found to carry out tasks such as the recording of leave requests and the maintenance of various personnel records.

Sectarianization became the pragmatic thing to do.

With Khamenei s support, Rouhani will be able to rein in recalcitrant forces in Iran s power structure in a way that his pragmatic predecessors, Rafsanjani and Khatami, could not.

Imagination, vision, and pragmatic perseverance will be necessary.

For understandable reasons, many defenders of Obama s decision to ban torture are attempting to answer Cheney s pragmatic view with an equally pragmatic counter narrative.

He will be a tough and strong minded leader, but one who understands the world in a pragmatic way and knows how to work well with his foreign counterparts.

The alternative view is more pragmatic and rules based.

The plans are illustrative of Myanmar s pragmatic new outlook.

Both favor diagnostic, pragmatic, experimental, and context specific strategies.

A pragmatic approach should be taken in that respect.

Let me simply say in conclusion that the status quo and, too often, the empty rhetoric must make way here for a new, effective and pragmatic multilateralism measured by concrete results.

Jean Monnet, who inspired the project, was pragmatic and daring.

This proviso is not strictly necessary but has a pragmatic purpose.

The United States believes that we should instead approach this task in a pragmatic way, building consensus around reforms we all agree are needed and then progressively working to achieve more difficult changes.

Given the incapacity of FDA, the Managing Director concluded that the most pragmatic way to ensure proper management of the sector was to contract the management of commercial forestry to a private organization.

Believing that stronger pursuit of revolutionary ideals is the only way to strengthen their country, these idealists seek to inspire a return of the radicals, triggering sharp conflict with their more pragmatic co revolutionaries.

It prohibits the use of synthetic chemical pesticides, with some pragmatic exceptions.

It is an understandable, pragmatic suggestion but not necessarily a good one.

But this doesn t preclude practical and pragmatic co operation in numerous areas.

As one of his supporters put it, he is a pragmatic idealist.

A set of pragmatic, targeted policy approaches have made that progress possible.

So, for now, East Asians should be very pragmatic about institutionalizing regional affairs.

On the moratorium, we remained pragmatic and built a strong European foreign policy.

But wise leaders are necessarily pragmatic, because messy reality demands compromise and accommodation.

So far, both al Nahda and the PJD have taken a pragmatic stance.

Once elected, Lula governed from the pragmatic left, continuing the prior administration s core policies.

There is a powerful pragmatic argument against Machiavellianism, as well as a principled one.

Even progressive governments feel more comfortable today with pragmatic alternatives and less ideological agendas.

Europe does not need a debate between austerity and growth it needs to be pragmatic.

The pragmatic lesson remains unlearned because those who take this view perceive a different lesson.

Licensing the opium crop would be a realistic and pragmatic cornerstone of that strategy s success.

People in these cultures tend to be more pragmatic, they are more tolerant of change.

Abductive inference is pragmatic, looking only at outcomes, guessing at the rule, and identifying the cause.

We hope for a sincere and pragmatic spirit on all sides, which will help promote implementation.