Ever the pragmatist, Ms. Xu is keenly aware of risks in the content business in China.
Ever the pragmatist, Lord Archer even funded a production of Ben Elton's Popcorn and looks set to make a profit.
But the pragmatist in me says that this is absolutely ridiculous.
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The pragmatist objects that these goals, once achieved, will produce negligible competitive advantage for the company, whether measured by purely financial or other softer yardsticks.
Former longtime U.S. Rep. Bill Delahunt, a Democrat from Massachusetts who attended Chavez's funeral in representation of the United States and met with Maduro, said he thinks that given the pressures "enveloping" Maduro, the pragmatist in him will show.
These include some reassuringly familiar types, such as the heroic pragmatist (Thomas Jane), the consoling schoolteacher (Laurie Holden), the finger-pointing nutcase (Marcia Gay Harden), and the skeptic (Andre Braugher) who refuses to believe in giant, writhing flesh-eaters right up to the moment at which he meets them socially.
As the ultimate pragmatist, he'd no doubt go for the pass-fail option.
Besides, say his allies, it's a little ironic that Baker, a man derided by his critics for being the ultimate pragmatist, is now being tagged for showing too much passion.
But how did the arch-moralist of the Kosovo war become the West's arch-pragmatist in the aftermath of the Chechen war?
What is worse the SD has not captured Chavez's essence as a stubborn ideologist, the opposite of a pragmatist seeking accommodation with the United States.
Hopefully the president is becoming more of a pragmatist about the need to craft a national energy policy that balances a desire for green energy with the need for more energy.
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He has also promised not to oppose CAFTA. Funes prefers to be seen as a pragmatist in the category of President Luis Inacio Lula Da Silva of Brazil.
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The great American philosophical pragmatist William James understood ethics.
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U.S. diplomatic officials view Maduro as a pragmatist and the fact that he was supportive of initiating closer ties with the United States last year suggests that this could continue, especially in light of Venezuela's economic troubles and the need to increase revenues through trade.
What he did was not a product of ideology but of a pragmatist attitude of the government of Brazil.
Mr Netanyahu, though seen by some as moving cautiously along the trajectory from ideologue to pragmatist, is not there yet.
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Mantel's object may be to rescue Cromwell the man from his historical reputation as a black-hearted villain: He was a survivor, a pragmatist whose aim was always to further the interests of his master the king.
PRI's new leader in the lower house of Congress and a pragmatist who gets on well with Mr Fox.
Labour's former Scottish First Minister Henry McLeish told the programme Mr Blair was a "pragmatist" when it came to devolution.
She said Husseini was a pragmatist who consistently advocated cooperation with the Israelis in the past.
"Politically, he is a pragmatist, " he said about the Pakistani leader.
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Mr Rafsanjani, a pragmatist conservative who has drifted closer to the reformist camp, retorted with a blunt letter to the Supreme Leader, accusing the president of lying, and of endangering Iran's Islamic system of government.
She said Husseini, a pragmatist who had advocated co-operation with the Israelis in the past, had suffered all his life from asthma.
There are grounds to believe that President Obama, more (not unlike FDR) of a pragmatist than an ideologue, is bailing on the left.
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But as I watch Obama throw his past associates and current colleagues through the trap door, I see a cold-hearted pragmatist at work who will do what it takes to be successful.
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