Like most extremists, they are far more interested in passionate posturing than pragmatic politics.

They are pragmatic politics of a type imprudently abandoned by governments of both parties.

He advocated pragmatic politics implemented by strong independent politicians drawn from business.

In recent years, actors have become involved in production for more pragmatic reasons.

Ostensibly, it's just a practical boundary marker - invented for wholly pragmatic reasons - but it also harbours life.

There are pragmatic reasons behind this selection, too.

That was the law for constitutional as well as pragmatic reasons.

Leaving moral imperatives aside, there are strong pragmatic reasons for intervening.

As a flexible, pragmatic response to problems it avoided getting too stuck ideologically.

In the context, the decision to equip the ballboys and ballgirls with colour co-ordinated nylon windcheaters, though mildly depressing, represented the only pragmatic response.

A more pragmatic response would be to do away with first-class travel altogether and introduce a standard fare structure throughout.

The principle was fine in theory, but the inevitable tensions of imposing a supranational union on governments with different agendas required a more pragmatic response.

But the practice insisted that the private option was a pragmatic response to funding problems that could spread countrywide.

It was also a pragmatic solution to not being able to sell, and we saved on stamp duty, agents' fees and removal costs.

There was a sensible and pragmatic solution.

But most will reach a pragmatic solution.

Butler wondered at the horological skills of the senior civil service, but it was quite a pragmatic solution.

This would have been the pragmatic solution.

The brothers' political views had long since diverged from their father's ideological preoccupations towards a more pragmatic stance.

Pro-information laws take a more pragmatic stance.

They are taking a pragmatic stance.

Buyers will do well to take pragmatic view.

He takes a similarly pragmatic view of taxing bank bonuses.

If he takes a pragmatic view, all should be well.

I think they'll take a pragmatic view and just try to clinch the title, no matter how they go about getting it.

We want our artists to keep us distracted by producing images that reaffirm our disenchanted, ironic, and pragmatic view of the world.

In purely pragmatic terms it was because that's the shortest way round.

For purely pragmatic purposes, for one night only.

Yet the motives for these sponsorships are not purely pragmatic.

These moves were purely pragmatic.

Yes, this was purely pragmatic.