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"pragmatist" Definitions
  1. a person who behaves in a practical and sensible way rather than having fixed ideas or theories
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And he believes in money -- he's the ultimate pragmatist.
Opposition to Trump's move has united Iran's hardline and pragmatist factions, with both pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani and commanders of the hardline Revolutionary Guards urging Iranians to join nationwide "Day of Rage" rallies.
Walker sold himself as the pragmatist making hard financial decisions.
Mr Trump is a showman as well as a pragmatist.
Mr Rouhani, a plodding pragmatist, won 51% of the vote.
Taylor's a pragmatist sure, but Taylor is also highly empathetic.
Being the product pragmatist I am, I thought, who cares?
But she was a pragmatist as well as a meliorist.
She strikes me as a pragmatist with Midwestern common sense.
The Minnesota senator is running for president as a pragmatist.
As a pragmatist, I have asked myself that question often.
I hope Mr. Trump is a pragmatist and sees that.
He believed in the Party's agenda, but was a pragmatist.
His friends caution against going overboard with the "pragmatist" label.
If Mr Back is the theorist, Mr Wu is the pragmatist.
The idea that Trump is a pragmatist is not without foundation.
"No one wants the pragmatist right now," said one Democratic strategist.
Either by nurture or nature or both, I'm only a pragmatist.
Pragmatism sells: The president is, in heart of hearts, a pragmatist.
He described Mr. Trump as a "pragmatist" rather than an ideologue.
Yet he's also been called a pragmatist and a fiscal conservative.
But Mr Fernández is a pragmatist and a skilled political operator.
And Clinton is a political pragmatist — maybe even a political pessimist.
Lydia might be evil, but she's also a pragmatist, and a pragmatist would see June's journey this season for what it is: a woman slowly spiraling and taking a whole bunch of people down with her.
He's running as a moderate pragmatist with a "get it done" mantra.
My mother, on the other hand, was the pragmatist in the family.
Shu, the pragmatist, is unlikely to be daunted by the CMA probe.
Schumer has a long-standing reputation as a consummate pragmatist and dealmaker.
Locke was middling as an ideologue, but remained a fiercely committed pragmatist.
I am a pragmatist that believes in solving problems to help people.
The white mayor of a nearby suburb, positioning himself as a pragmatist.
O'DONNELL His only lane is a pragmatist, more moderate approach to policy.
He's a pragmatist and a dealmaker and wants to get things done.
Trump is a capitalist and a showman, and at heart a pragmatist.
Mr. Bharara is a pragmatist, and one with a proclivity for publicity.
She was a pragmatist, willing to improvise — to try the bank-shot solution.
But she is a cold-eyed pragmatist when it comes to world affairs.
He's a coolheaded pragmatist, ready to do the bidding of Wall Street donors.
Rafsanjani was topping the ballot, with the pragmatist Rouhani second, the results showed.
Trump is a vain pragmatist who simultaneously craves and reviles the media's attention.
Merkel is a pragmatist; she takes pragmatic steps to clean up a mess.
Mr. Cherry describes himself as a political pragmatist who will vote for Mrs.
Don't let the artist fuck with what the pragmatist is trying to do.
Nadal, ever a pragmatist, said he would not mind the matchup's being derailed.
Ms. Klobuchar, 59, has billed herself as a Midwestern pragmatist with bipartisan appeal.
Seeking a second term, pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani, 68, remains the narrow favourite.
But she's also tougher, less of a fantasist and more of a pragmatist.
But she's as much of a pragmatist as anyone Lehane ever dreamed up.
He is, at his core, a pragmatist — one with a proclivity for publicity.
This businessmen, by definition a pragmatist, also has extensive experience working with Russia.
A pragmatist is more likely to enter coalitions, make compromises, and negotiate to settlements.
Mr Putin is a pragmatist, and has no desire for direct conflict with America.
Though a pragmatist to the point of cynicism, his career was rooted in zealotry.
Once a card-carrying communist, Mr Minniti reinvented himself as a centre-left pragmatist.
Parnell is running as a moderate pragmatist in the mold of former Democratic Rep.
Ossoff has tried to cast himself as a pragmatist in a traditionally Republican district.
They threw everything they had at the pragmatist incumbent, Hassan Rouhani, to no avail.
Peters, a consummate pragmatist, is considered unlikely to insist on his more radical ideas.
It was a very esoteric idea, to be sure, and I was a pragmatist.
But Roosevelt was an improvisational pragmatist — a "juggler," he called himself — not a socialist.
A casual sexist, he's also a pragmatist, and good work is his principal concern.
In the Arizona governor's primary, Democrats again chose an outspoken progressive over a pragmatist.
"I'm both a proponent of pipe organs," he said, "and I'm also a pragmatist."
That's because Khaled, while an optimist, is also a pragmatist and a true friend.
He tended to be more conservative than people thought, but he was a pragmatist.
"That's powerful stuff," he said, and praised Trump as a pragmatist and not an ideologue.
The deal, engineered by pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani, ended the country's economic and political isolation.
A pragmatist, Hulot has advised governments from the right and the left about environmental policies.
Trump was perceived by Cairo as a pragmatist who had little interest in human rights.
Now think: How many 20-somethings you know would eagerly opt for a sober pragmatist?
Justice Stephen Breyer, known as a pragmatist on the bench, put forward his own standard.
He has a reputation as a pragmatist who understands the value of compromise over conflict.
Clinton has billed herself as a pragmatist, willing to take the compromises that are available.
Donald Trump is a patriotic American and a pragmatist at one and the same time.
Unlike his predecessor, President Trump is a pragmatist who sees the world as it is.
"I've always been a pragmatist on this stuff," said Kelly, who left Facebook in 250.
Nelson's ad is a positive spot that casts himself as a pragmatist and touts bipartisanship.
But Eileen also is an unsentimental pragmatist, unimpressed by the males who flock to her.
Equal parts pragmatist and poet, they straddle art and activism, knowing each informs the other.
As Richard Rorty maintained, Nietzsche can be understood as a particularly flamboyant kind of pragmatist.
Monnet was a pragmatist, as fixers must be, but he also had a visionary streak.
A pragmatist doesn't say no to big ideas, they figure out how to get them done.
Ms Macleod says she is a "pragmatist" on Brexit and acknowledges the economic benefits of immigration.
They praise Mr Trump as a patriot-pragmatist in the spirit of Lincoln or Theodore Roosevelt.
He regarded Trump as a largely non-ideological pragmatist who might be open to his guidance.
Is it the dealmaker, is it the let's make a deal guy, the businessman, the pragmatist?
Though a pragmatist, she is beholden to her party, which has long denied any such consensus.
Only if I were a "pragmatist" or a "Changing Constitutionalist" would these private views become important.
Instead, he's casting himself as a bipartisan pragmatist whose real foils are gridlock and political corruption.
Her husband, a pragmatist, loves their dog, but is a bit more practical with their finances.
Other volunteers called her "a criminal", a "neocon" and—perhaps most damningly for some—a pragmatist.
The new business secretary, Mr Clarke, has a reputation as a pragmatist rather than a radical.
That would leave Secretary of Defense Mattis -- a relative pragmatist on the Iran deal -- more isolated.
Like Secretary Clinton, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is also a realist and a pragmatist.
Some argue that the best such candidate, given the president's extremism, would be a centrist pragmatist.
And people support her: She's seen as a firm hand on the wheel, a sensible pragmatist.
Was there a kick in that for you, to play such a villain, such a pragmatist?
Pragmatist might just be a better description—one who finds ideas and efficiencies wherever he can.
Mr. O'Connor described himself as a pragmatist focused on issues like health care and the economy.
It's also that former Vice President Joe Biden, the establishment pragmatist in the race, finished fourth.
In signing off on the decision, Mr. Murdoch proved that he is a pragmatist at heart.
In the movement to combat online harassment, Goldberg is more of a pragmatist than a theorist.
Hillary Clinton is neither saint nor prophet; she is a pragmatist of deep experience and purpose.
Who cares?" said the ultimate pragmatist Thiel, who also declared, "I am proud to be gay.
Pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani has been trying to revive Iran's sanction-hit economy by attracting foreign investment.
Trump might even turn out to be more of a pragmatist than he appeared on the stump.
Rafsanjani, a pragmatist who favored liberal political and economic policies, died of a heart attack aged 82.
A self-described pragmatist, she talks about the need to strengthen Obamacare and cut the budget deficit.
Mr. Trump has also disparaged Mr. Cruz's personality, casting himself as a bridge-builder and a pragmatist.
WILLIAMS: Well, that&aposs what worries me, because I tend to be such a pragmatist and realist.
I believe that Mr. Bloomberg, as a moderate pragmatist, would have an excellent chance of being elected.
But for a proud pragmatist like Clinton, a muddled mandate may be a feature, not a bug.
President Rouhani, a pragmatist, has been trying to attract technology and investment to bolster Iran's shattered economy.
But, all told, he was true to the deliberative, center-left pragmatist that he has always been.
Trump may not be a purist but he surely is a pragmatist seeking to right the country.
But President Trump, ever the pragmatist, has acknowledged the danger that recalcitrant countries force on American communities.
My dad is a career diplomat and his bureaucratic experience has made him into a seasoned pragmatist.
But he poked fun at the senator-elect for her reputation as a pragmatist and a centrist.
The other is an overweight pragmatist who made a fortune lobbying for all manner of liberal boogeymen.
Bennet, a proud pragmatist, is another candidate with some clear ideological rationale for his long-shot run.
For all his oddities and eccentricities, he was a blank slate — a businessman to those who wanted a businessman, a culture warrior to those who wanted a culture warrior, a pragmatist to those who wanted a pragmatist, a conservative to those who wanted a conservative, and so on.
Trump won the states after pitching himself as a business-savvy pragmatist who would put American jobs first.
Seeking to win over right-leaning voters, Gantz, 59, has highlighted his military credentials and is a pragmatist.
Being a pragmatist, I tried not to dwell on it and instead focused on making a swift recovery.
And as a liberal pragmatist, he thought that power should be exercised as close to home as possible.
Pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani's hardline rivals have criticized his government for doing too little, too late to help.
Hillary Clinton, for her part, has traditionally presented herself as a moderate, a pragmatist, a sub-ideological technocrat.
From what I've observed, he's less of that and more of a pragmatist with a persistent political strategy.
For the opposite of nativist populism is not hyper-liberalism but a battle for the epithet of "pragmatist".
Doreen Valiente was a natural pragmatist, adept at negotiating dodgy dealings and with a head for meticulous research.
He has always been a pragmatist and always been someone who has tried to work with both sides.
"I am a pragmatist; I am open to any practical suggestion that might benefit European football," he added.
How much better, then, to have a diligent pragmatist representing them in Washington, DC, than a conservative firebrand.
O'Brien has pitched herself as a pragmatist who brings a unique background of law enforcement to the race.
Jessica, a hard pragmatist, ends up swapping out her name for an Allman Brothers homage with a shrug.
His persona of a gentleman pragmatist doesn't stand up so well when many women independently describe similar incidents.
President Rouhani, seen as a pragmatist who is at odds with hardliners, deflected criticisms of his economic record.
His appeal as a pure entertainer, though — neither ideologue nor pragmatist (really a pageant unto himself) — cannot be denied.
Brown, who succeeded Ronald Reagan as governor in 20123, has been called a centrist, populist, pragmatist, doomsayer and trailblazer.
Of fellow billionaire Trump, Icahn said the "right-wing establishment" doesn't like him in part because he's a pragmatist.
He's running as an Indiana pragmatist, not the heir to Sanders's legacy his teenage self would've been excited about.
He can sound like a fiscally conservative pragmatist in one speech and a messianic rabble-rouser in the next.
Stockily built, with watchful hooded eyes and a friendly gap-toothed smile, Mr Mnangagwa is viewed as a pragmatist.
But Shabani added that Rouhani is first and foremost a pragmatist who is keen on building bridges with hardliners.
There was a real question about whether we were going to see 'Trump the pragmatist' come out of hiding.
Calvin Harris is a pragmatist, and that why he has crafted a technically perfect Song of the Summer contender.
After all, the first GOP president was a pragmatist Whig not too long before he was a pragmatic Republican.
I believe that he will be more of pragmatist, notwithstanding the content of some of his think tank writings.
But he also was a pragmatist and skilled practitioner of the legislative arts who looked to find common ground.
Finding a response is the biggest test yet for Rouhani, a pragmatist who has faced strong opposition from hardliners.
The brothers — Anthony, 48, the bespectacled brainstormer, and Joe, 46, the square-jawed pragmatist — have contrasting but complementary energies.
So I hope my perspective on being a progressive who is also a pragmatist will help get things done.
His shift from a campaign populist to a pragmatist mayor has been reflected in his relationship with Mr. Booker.
Though he called himself a "rabid gun owner," he was also a pragmatist: easygoing with the press, and experienced.
In deeply conservative Alabama, Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones has been running as a pragmatist ahead of a Dec.
Garavaglia is seen as a moderate, pro-euro pragmatist who was formerly the budget chief of the wealthy Lombardy region.
John Hewson, a former Liberal leader who has been critical of both parties, said Shorten was more pragmatist than reformer.
The backdrop: The 41st president, an influential figure and pragmatist in the Republican Party, died late Friday at age 94.
Mr Babis is a pragmatist who knows his country's success rests on Europe's integrated supply chains and open internal borders.
Socialist insiders describe Diaz as a pragmatist who will not support Rajoy's policies but who is known for reaching compromises.
So, even if President Trump may not be concerned about leveling the playing field for defendants, he is a pragmatist.
As Hillary, the pragmatist, had demanded before taking the job, she did have regular "one-on-ones" with the president.
Of MUT's anti-doping organizers, he's the pragmatist, though he lives and breathes the sport like everyone else interviewed here.
Eric Cantor in a primary just a few years ago -- Spanberger describes herself as a pragmatist on the political spectrum.
As someone who has spent much of her career as a pragmatist, offering such a vision may not be easy.
A pragmatist when it came to amassing power, Mr. Bush was willing to do what it took to defeat Gov.
He's conservative, but he's been billed as the "pragmatist," perhaps less ideological on environmental and education issues in the state.
His mode of operation is instinctual and pragmatist, opposite to the mythical, inward-turning beam of spirituality in MoMA's narrative.
Similar fury greeted John Roberts's 2005 nomination — until his vote to preserve Obamacare remade him into a consensus-oriented pragmatist.
Small, with glittering blue eyes, his pitch is that he's a tech-friendly pragmatist with the ability to revitalize France.
I'd argue I'm the pragmatist in the room, but you can't get past those groups, especially in those two states.
Yet he also is the ultimate pragmatist, perfectly willing to dispense with seemingly core beliefs in return for negotiating advantage.
A self-described pragmatist, Ms. Dingell acknowledged that the current bill may be only the beginning of a longer conversation.
" Louis, ever the optimist to Jessica's pragmatist, counters that "if we don't enjoy what we have, we don't have anything.
The Point: Sanders is becoming much more of a political pragmatist as he sees the possibility of actually winning the nomination.
Despite his alarming first name and his pledge to continue Mr Correa's policies, Mr Moreno has a reputation as a pragmatist.
Reputation, in one sentence: Pragmatist with a business background, focused on foreign policy vision and open to deal-making with Democrats.
I'm the romantic one that wears my heart on my sleeve; he's the pragmatist and private about that kind of thing.
But Bessant, who oversees 95,000 technology workers and was named the most powerful woman in banking last year, is a pragmatist.
Policymakers who work for Kuroda say he is a pragmatist open to new ideas and willing to be flexible on policy.
Until the humanitarian situation of the refugee crisis became unbearable, Chancellor Angela Merkel had always been an aloof pragmatist of power.
If you are an opportunist and a pragmatist, like Vladimir Putin, this sort of moment is suited to your daily arithmetic.
Little is conservative, but he's been billed as the "pragmatist," perhaps less ideological on environmental and education issues in the state.
That short-term calculation of Mr. Trump's political fortunes may not be sound, and Mr. Bolton may be a ruthless pragmatist.
She is a pragmatist in service to creativity that remembers the past, glories in the present, and eagerly addresses the future.
Like Maggie, Big Daddy is a cleareyed pragmatist, willing to take on any truth except the fact of his imminent demise.
That's good news for anyone alarmed by the turn of Netanyahu's politics in recent years from conservative pragmatist to political desperado.
He has a strong reputation as a pragmatist with real world experience to guide the tough enforcement decisions the division faces.
Kais Saied has a reputation as a pragmatist and has talked abstractly about fighting corruption and creating a culture of accountability.
Ted Strickland (D): Like Ayotte and Toomey, Portman is viewed as a pragmatist who'd be strongly positioned in an ordinary year.
A charismatic populist, he has played the role of both revolutionary and pragmatist, and it's not always clear which version Mexico elected.
As mayor he trained his anti-establishment ideas on specific city problems, so he seemed less ideological and more of a pragmatist.
But so far the deal, pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani's headline achievement, has yet to deliver the economic benefits many Iranians yearn for.
" Kim, ever the pragmatist, pointed out, "I think you would freak Khloé out, because she was in the delivery room with you.
But they also relayed that he was a pragmatist and there was "understanding within the administration of what needs to be done".
Trump won the five states after pitching himself as a business-savvy pragmatist who would improve the lives of working class Americans.
Clinton did not seem anxious about a potential loss, sticking to her pragmatist pitch while praising Mr. Sanders's hopeful final closing ad.
Bloomberg is seen as a pragmatist and fiscal conservative who has taken liberal positions on issues like gun control and the environment.
Pragmatist Rouhani arrived in France on Wednesday on the second leg of a state visit to Europe after three days in Italy.
Though single-minded about returning to his home country for good, Ray's a pragmatist first: "I need some international experience," he admitted.
Jay Inslee announced last week, and is trying to cast himself as a pragmatist who can also take on President Donald Trump.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's criticism comes ahead of Iran's presidential election in May, when the pragmatist president is expected to seek re-election.
Though Reagan was seen as an ideologue, he chose a crafty pragmatist to run the White House and by extension the government.
Could the president be turning away from his own party and positioning himself as a pragmatist willing to deal with his opponents?
Los Espookys follows four friends: purist Renaldo (Bernardo Velasco), hustler Tati (Fabrega), pragmatist Úrsula (Cassandra Ciangherotti), and príncipe de chocolate Andrés (Torres).
His absence from that debate, whenever it happens, means the chances of a pragmatist emerging as the next supreme leader are reduced.
Bell's Gertrude is a hard pragmatist when we first meet her, seemingly able to live comfortably with her Faustian bargain for power.
But in contrast to some of his more dogmatic predecessors, he was also known as a politically savvy pragmatist capable of compromise.
The best model of a national security adviser was Brent Scowcroft, a scrupulous pragmatist and honest broker under George H. W. Bush.
" Jackson went on, "They say he's a pragmatist, but then, on issues like the Court, he actually goes further than everyone else.
He is a pragmatist and a businessman, who has founded numerous companies, including CorrectHealth, a provider of correctional health care in Georgia.
The Republican grass-roots were already hawkish on immigration, while the president's takeover of the party has further diminished its pragmatist wing.
At their most candid, some Democrats echo their pragmatist forebears in emphasizing the unromantic exigencies of elections and the political inevitability of mammon.
Though considered a pragmatist, he sounds much like Iran's hardliners, who opposed his nuclear deal and see no room for compromise with America.
Asked if that was dangerous, Sarandon trashed Clinton's pitch that she's a pragmatist, saying that the current situation in the country is unsustainable.
"John, for all of his bluster, his conservative and hawkish bluster, is a pragmatist in my view," Mr. Baker said in an interview.
"He is a pragmatist and a realist and I'm sure he will accept that while possibly muttering under his breath," Brandreth tells PEOPLE.
But the way Clinton presents herself as a pragmatist trying to get things done — I have no idea who she is talking about.
"It's quite possible that Trump's advisor is a pragmatist and a realist," Reshetnikov said, according to a translation of his comments in Russian.
Those who thought they had elected a bold and inspiring populist were surprised to find him replaced by a cautious and deliberate pragmatist.
"He is a pragmatist and a realist and I'm sure he will accept that while possibly muttering under his breath," Brandreth told PEOPLE.
The sense was that for these two very different Democrats—the quintessential pragmatist versus the sometimes utopian idealist—the gloves had come off.
With a straightforward pragmatist like Trump, these solutions will only be sought after by dealing with like-minded pragmatists, such as bin Salman.
Investors, however, had viewed Merentes' return to the central bank in 2013 as a positive sign given his reputation as an economic pragmatist.
No one knows for certain which López Obrador will show up at Los Pinos (the Mexican White House), the pragmatist or the revolutionary.
My hopes are based on the feeling that Mr. Trump is a pragmatist, a dealmaker, someone who will compromise to make something happen.
Clinton would have been seen as a common political type: an evidence-oriented pragmatist committed to using public authority to solve big problems.
At hearings before two Senate committees to review his qualifications, Mr. Azar presented himself as a problem-solving pragmatist rather than an ideologue.
During his 2016 presidential campaign, Mr. Trump spoke privately about his intention to govern as a pragmatist and champion of the working class.
To know Clinton is to know that not only is she a pragmatist, but she is also a realist and she is flexible.
But she needs to retain good ties with fellow Republicans to preserve her image as a pragmatist and moderating force in the party.
A self-described pragmatist, Mr. Duronville decided to patiently explain to Ms. De La O why she was unlikely to win her case.
While it is true that Booker may be a political pragmatist, his policy stances more align with the likes of Warren and Sanders.
But even more unfortunate is the simplistic binary that Lochery applies to it all: Is Bibi, at heart, an ideologue or a pragmatist?
His death removes an important ally behind the scenes of fellow pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani, who is expected to seek re-election in May.
Most analysts say Rafsanjani's death is a political blow to the pragmatist-moderate coalition, as he was the leading force behind Rouhani's election win.
And if I were to bet money I would say Trump is a pragmatist not an ideologue and pragmatists make deals in the middle.
The president herself, a pragmatist, has made plain her goodwill, by promising from the start that she will not rock the cross-strait boat.
Hillary Clinton will always be, as her husband says, the activist fighting for change and the pragmatist content to do it in small steps.
Mr Babis is a pragmatist who prides himself on competence; the Czech government ran a budget surplus with him as finance minister last year.
Newly re-elected pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday: "Iran does not need the permission of the United States to conduct missile tests".
Castle, by contrast, is a pragmatist and a worrier: systematic, detail-oriented, inclined to lie awake at night contemplating the optimal texture of cake.
" Nonetheless, The Daily News credited Cuomo for being a "pragmatist" who's "effective," while noting, "pragmatism is not a word in challenger Cynthia Nixon's vocabulary.
But American officials long saw Mr. Álvarez, a former college professor, as a pragmatist who prevented ties between the countries from fraying even further.
Eisenhower was a pragmatist in the strictest philosophical sense: someone who judges the truth of theories according to their success or failure in practice.
There are two sides to Bernie Sanders that can seem somewhat contradictory — the long-shot electoral gadfly and the canny pragmatist focused on results.
"The realist or pragmatist within me acknowledges the support that we can see from allies in those places where they feel able to push."
To a pragmatist, "truth" is an instrumental and contingent state; a claim is true for now if, by all tests, it works for now.
In Ms. Hassan, Granite State voters have the chance to elect a pragmatist who is more attuned to their needs than to party politics.
If Warren was always going to be playing catch-up with the progressive Sanders bloc, could she have chosen to be the moderate pragmatist?
He was too much of a pragmatist for his party's progressive wing, too self-focused for party leaders and too brusque for nearly everyone.
To his fans, Mr. Scholz is a voice of calm and confidence, a pragmatist from Germany's taciturn north who represents the elusive silent majority.
Trump could be a pragmatist in ideological sheep's clothing, and that is a reason to be guardedly optimistic, at least from a liberal standpoint.
As a mayor of Charlotte, Mr. McCrory was known as a moderate and pragmatist, a reputation that attracted many Democrats to his 2012 campaign.
Holcomb, who replaced Mike Pence and is seen as more of a pragmatist, appointed a female obstetrician-gynecologist to be his new health commissioner.
Rouhani, a pragmatist elected in 2013 on a platform to reduce Iran's isolation, traveled to Paris and Rome to promote his country to eager investors.
He was praised as a can-do, pro-business pragmatist who would wipe clean and shape up a government widely seen as venal and rotten.
However, Iran's pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani has signaled Iran's willingness to hold talks if the U.S. showed its respect and returned to the nuclear accord.
Ryan, seen as a pragmatist who can unite different factions of the party, was widely recruited despite his hesitation to take on the demanding role.
She is a pragmatist who has maintained dialogue with strongmen like Vladimir Putin and Tayyip Erdogan through crises in Germany's relationship with Russia and Turkey.
Mr López Obrador is a conundrum, who can sound like a fiscally conservative pragmatist in one speech and a messianic rabble-rouser in the next.
The U.S. withdrawal from the nuclear deal has undermined Rouhani, a relative pragmatist, and emboldened his hardline opponents who always opposed any compromises with Washington.
At the same time, though, Trump's instincts as a centrist and pragmatist on Israel -- and particularly the Israeli-Palestinian issue -- clearly run in another direction.
Beneath the bluster, some diplomats and analysts say, Erdogan remains a pragmatist who knows Turkey's best interests lie in maintaining cordial relations with the West.
Carol's the same woman that took out a 12-year-old girl back in season four, remember, and has been a ruthless pragmatist ever since.
It's not exactly a hip part of Toronto, but for Bil, ever the pragmatist, there were and are deals to be had in the Junction.
Part pragmatist and part dreamer, he has been researching and writing about the future for a long time in books and his blog, Marginal Revolution.
Powell is a current policymaker and is seen by Fed followers as a Yellen-style pragmatist who will continue with gradual raises to interest rates.
Rafsanjani, known as a pragmatist who served as president from 1989 to 1997, died of a heart attack, according to IRNA, Iran's official news agency.
Describing himself as an AI pragmatist, he is worried that if left unchecked, AI could deepen divides between rich and poor and spark civil unrest.
While he's viewed as progressive and part of the progressive caucus, he's also a pragmatist who doesn't espouse all views of his far left colleagues.
The realist or pragmatist or hard-nosed faction might allow that these upgrades are "nice" to have but not until the trains run on time.
He was a radical newspaper editor and writer, and also a pragmatist, a perspective he learned in the political crises over slavery in the 1850s.
Still, some consider at least Mr. Mnuchin as a pragmatist rather than an ideologue, and that could help him balance competing views in the job.
Díaz Canel, who is set to become Cuba's first civilian president since 1952, is a pragmatist who rose through the ranks of Cuba's political system.
Mitch McConnell had already been worried that Donald Trump might revert to the pragmatist who gave Chuck Schumer and Hillary donations and triangulate with Democrats.
But Mr. Murdoch, 86, has also proved, time and again, that he is a pragmatist at his core — at least, when his hand is forced.
During the presidential campaign, many people on Wall Street had supported his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton viewing her as a pragmatist and a stabilizing force.
De Rugy is known as a pragmatist who backed Macron's decision last year to delay the phased reduction of nuclear energy in France's electricity production.
Pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani's success in ending Iran's the prolonged standoff with the West has intensified a power struggle among the country's faction-ridden elite.
"No state and nation can be brought to the negotiating table by force," said the pragmatist president, adding that Iran did not want any war.
And she's weighed down by her previous policy moves and the impression that she's merely a pragmatist, willing to change direction as the polls dictate.
The three-term senator and former prosecutor positioned herself as a pragmatist who could work with conservatives and Republicans while moving forward on Democratic priorities.
On the one hand: the young people of Iran, dancing in the streets to mark the re-election of a pragmatist, men and women together.
Clinton, in turn, has always come across as a pragmatist more than a dreamer, and she rarely intones a vision of America that is broadly inspiring.
But the victory of President Donald Trump in 2016 and his decision to pull America out of the deal last year knocked the pragmatist tandem askew.
"If Biden can do it, take off and be a liberal pragmatist, that's a good thing from most of our standpoints," said the trade association leader.
My dad, ever the pragmatist, gave me a $100 Costco gift card for Christmas 2015, so I pay using that, with a small balance, including tax.
Even with a pragmatist like Fergusson steering the ship, finaling a game and getting a bug count down from 1,000 to zero is an uncertain process.
Quarles, who was appointed by U.S. President Donald Trump as the Fed's first head of banking supervision last year, is seen as a pragmatist on regulation.
The big picture: Democrats ultimately have to choose between someone who's the mirror image of President Trump (an angry fighter) — or the opposite (an optimistic pragmatist).
And in it, Sally flits between the role of naive, manipulated housewife, and the savvy pragmatist able to survive the savage, male-dominated world of ISIS.
Once known as a pragmatist and a centrist, Mr. Gillespie increasingly has been turning in his political advertising to President Trump's brand of divisive, scaremongering politics.
This dismayed many: the president is a pragmatist, mild in his moral views to the point that his fiercest Muslim critics see him as un-Islamic.
On the campaign trail, Ms. Klobuchar has presented herself to voters as a seasoned pragmatist who could bridge political divides to get policies passed in Washington.
A self-proclaimed "pragmatist," he supports stabilizing Obamacare and refinancing student debt, while Joshi and Hackett are running on a Medicare-for-all, free-college platform.
Pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani also called on Iranians to join the rally on Friday to "show their unbreakable ties with the Supreme Leader and the Islamic Republic".
Kramp-Karrenbauer is the CDU's general secretary and a former minister-president of the state of Saarland, she is seen as a pragmatist of the Merkel variety.
But Reagan was also a pragmatist, willing to compromise, able to improvise in pursuit of his goals and, most of all, eager to expand his party's appeal.
And, even if Mr. Trump somehow found his way into the White House, the longtime Washington hands envision him operating as a pragmatist, leaving their power unchecked.
She's a pragmatist who believes in working within the system, in promising roughly what you believe you can deliver, in saying how you'll pay for your plans.
" And Justice Breyer, always a pragmatist, seems to have been concerned with "a general program designed to secure or to improve the health and safety of children.
In his early days he was "a cold pragmatist known to deliver a single shot to the head for any mistakes made in a shipment," he writes.
The U.S. Senate vote was a blow to pragmatist Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who engineered the diplomatic opening to the West that led to the nuclear deal.
The pragmatist Rouhani championed the nuclear deal as the way to end Iran's international isolation so if it falls apart he could face a career-threatening backlash.
In Olympia, he'd built a reputation as a skilled lawmaker -- a progressive pragmatist -- who was at the center of budget deals and multi-billion dollar transportation packages.
They describe how Shu — a press-shy pragmatist — worked intensively to get Deliveroo off the ground, making deliveries himself and convincing skeptical investors to come on board.
A pragmatist, 62-year-old Merkel has steered Europe through the euro zone crisis and the biggest influx of migrants to the continent since World War Two.
Twice elected governor while Democratic presidential candidates were being routed in Montana, Mr. Bullock largely governed as a pragmatist, expanding Medicaid in the state with bipartisan support.
If you believe "they ain't nothing until I call 'em!" you're not just a pragmatist — you're an activist, or so conservative legal scholars would have you believe.
Though Mr. Mnangagwa had acted for decades as Mr. Mugabe's right-hand man, including orchestrating vote-rigging in previous elections, he has become known as a pragmatist.
On the campaign trail, he played the role of the seasoned pragmatist who would defend the Trump agenda because he understood and valued it better than anyone.
But ever the pragmatist, he turned to running as a more convenient way to exercise when long work hours and travel prevented him from long bike rides.
" He later took to Twitter to clarify his comparison, saying he's not a "climate change denier" or "young-earther" but a "pragmatist who wants market-driven solutions.
Mr. Xi was a pragmatist, but evidence also points to his being motivated by genuine respect for traditional Chinese faiths, such as Buddhism, Taoism and folk religion.
Lindsey Graham, his one-time 2016 primary opponent, immigration pragmatist and defense hawk who has befriended Trump despite the President's constant attacks of his late friend Sen.
But interviews with close associates and a review of his record at Exxon reveal a pragmatist whose views put him firmly in the American foreign policy mainstream.
"He is a pragmatist and financier who is on a similar frequency as the European Commission and the European elites," Mr. Kik said by telephone on Tuesday.
She has thus far used her candidacy to ask voters a question: Do they really want a revolutionary when they could have an experienced pragmatist like her?
As a pragmatist who was a registered Democrat from 2001 to 2009, Trump is not a lifelong Republican, nor does he take consistently hard-right positions on issues.
Mr O'Rourke, Amy Klobuchar, a moderate senator from Minnesota running as a pragmatist who can win in the heartland, and even Mr Buttigieg turned in relatively forgettable performances.
Indeed, Maduro seemed caught out when Raul Castro, considered a pragmatist, announced he was seeking to mend ties with their shared "imperialist" enemy, the United States, in 2014.
In so doing, he missed an opportunity to stand out as a battle-tested pragmatist on matters of race and to win voters of color to his campaign.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Iranian parliament voted on Sunday to keep the oil and foreign ministers, two of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani's key members of cabinet, in their posts.
Clinton has never been politically radical; one thing Living History makes clear is that the former Goldwater Girl has always been, at heart, a moderate and a pragmatist.
Raisi, a hard-line cleric who served for years on Iran's judiciary, is considered the main rival to President Hassan Rouhani, a pragmatist who is running for reelection.
Annulment of the accord could tip the balance of power in favor of hardliners looking to constrain pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani's ability to open up to the West.
"If you're a pragmatic business person, if you're a bottom-line pragmatist, there are bonuses galore here from being able to work effectively in diverse groups," he says.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Iranian lawmakers approved three new ministers on Tuesday, signaling support for changes in the cabinet of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani seven months before a presidential election.
He is seen as a pragmatist at odds with Iran's hardliners and has said in response to the protests that Iranians have a right to criticize the authorities.
Another Iranian official said Trump's hawkish Iran policy had united the Islamic Republic's often feuding leadership - split into hardline conservative, pragmatist and reformist factions - in alignment with Russia.
In Argentina, which Mr Obama will visit after Cuba, a centre-right pragmatist, Mauricio Macri, replaced an anti-yanqui populist, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, after elections last November.
Louisville, Kentucky (CNN)In Washington, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has a reputation as a legislating pragmatist whose political instincts have made him a force in his chamber.
Even though Thuringia's popular Left leader Bodo Ramelow, who has led the state there since 2014, is a pragmatist from western Germany, some in the CDU were angry.
Clinton, the pragmatist, won the battle, but Sanders won the war, as his supposedly idealistic policies have become broadly popular among Democrats—even party doctrine, in some cases.
Despite being profit-driven and design-centered, Artek shares something of the utopian pragmatist ethos of the Museum of Modern Art, which gave Aalto an exhibition in 1938.
Iran's pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani warned that the U.S.-led missile attacks would lead to further destruction in the Middle East, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.
Rouhani, a pragmatist who won two landslide elections in Iran on promises to open it up to the world, repeated previous Iranian demands that Washington relax its policies.
Mr. Cuomo, who advertises himself as a pragmatist with a knack for getting things done, seemed to suggest that the Democratic Party could use his brand of leadership.
Many of the women on the show are more like sketches, anchored by a single defining trait: the older pragmatist, the controlling wife, the commitment-phobic sex fiend.
Mr. Biden's opening pitch as an electable pragmatist who can reach across the aisle has resonated with many Iowa Democrats who are desperate to end Mr. Trump's presidency.
Bradley, over the years, developed a reputation as a stern pragmatist, especially in his interviews, where he rarely strays from talking tactics and praising a positive team dynamic.
But it appears Bloomberg, a pragmatist who clearly isn't into undertaking political campaigns he doesn't think he can win, believes he will be most effective in the private sector.
Most revealing during our exchange was the extent to which, much like me, Obama was by nature a pragmatist—more a foreign policy "realist" than a woolly eyed idealist.
The nuclear deal heightened hardliners' anger over the rise to power of pragmatist Rouhani, elected president in 2013 on a pledge to improve foreign relations and revive the economy.
Ever the pragmatist, McConnell mended fences with Bevin just as he had previously with Senator Rand Paul, and together McConnell and Bevin set about turning the Kentucky House red.
Peirce persuasively recasts Roxelana as a pragmatist adept at navigating both palace politics and international relations, and as a pioneer who established a more powerful role for Ottoman women.
And Germany is the political pragmatist, leaning on Greece to stick with its austerity commitments lest it set a bad precedent for future bailouts and provoke unrest at home.
Diplomats say the new jets will allow pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani to argue the sanctions deal is working, several months ahead of Iranian presidential elections in May next year.
He was also a keen-eyed pragmatist, who wanted to see an educated, innovative workforce emerge in America, and envisioned the Perot Museum as one expression of that effort.
Iran's pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani has repeatedly criticized the ban but has failed to get it removed because of resistance from powerful hardliners in the clerical and security establishment.
Some Michigan Democrats have remained hopeful that Snyder would veto some of the most controversial pieces of legislation, citing his reputation as more of a pragmatist than a partisan.
" (Keeping it classy not ashy, she'd also set up candles for ambience.) Ever the pragmatist, Big wonders, "What the fuck I'm supposed to do after I shit on her?
In 2004, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy asked Anderson to compose its entry on the moral philosophy of John Dewey, who helped carry pragmatist methods into the social realm.
Rouhani, a pragmatist who engineered the nuclear accord and a short-lived period of detente between Tehran and Washington, said the Trump administration was "extremely angry" with Europe's decision.
"And any South Korean pragmatist is going to look at options for achieving South Korea's security needs, and immediately recognize that the U.S. security guarantee is central," he said.
Mr. McConnell, while baffled at Mr. Trump's penchant for internecine attacks, is a ruthless pragmatist and has given no overt indication that he plans to seek more drastic conflict.
But disillusionment among pro-reform voters over what they see as the failure of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani to bolster personal freedoms may keep some at home on Friday.
Hardline rivals of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani have strongly opposed the new contracts, saying they contradict the constitution which says Iranian natural resource reserves cannot be owned by foreigners.
But what she is, is somebody who is a pragmatist and a realist and she will afford him the respect of the Office of the Presidency of the United States.
With the landmark nuclear deal with world powers sealed last year, followed by lifting of international sanctions, pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani is trying to end Iran's isolation with the West.
While neither a moderate nor a centrist, she is running as a pragmatist, a candidate whose candidacy makes sense, and whose goal is to lock Obama's transformative presidency in place.
Pondering so many mixed signals, Trump apologists cross their fingers, squint a bit, and declare that they see a political pragmatist who may yet preside over a rather normal administration.
A pragmatist elected to turn around Taiwan's economy and balance nationalist fervor with the realities of maintaining ties with mainland China, she was rejected by voters just four years ago.
She has served for the past six years as interior minister, regarded as one of the toughest jobs in government, and cultivated a reputation as a tough and competent pragmatist.
A fiscal conservative, Corker is seen as a pragmatist willing to work with Democrats on a range of issues including foreign affairs but also domestic policy matters such as immigration.
But since the Democrats largely overlapped on policy, many characterized the race instead as a difference in their tone and style: Northam as a pragmatist and Perriello as an idealist.
So instead Mrs Clinton used the debate to do the next best thing: to bind herself tightly to Barack Obama, the revolution-shunning pragmatist who currently occupies the Oval Office.
Moreover, despite claims that Kelly is a non-ideological pragmatist who runs a tight ship, there's little reason to trust him; he can be as extreme as Trump's other advisers.
Wheeler is more of a pragmatist and likely to pay more heed to the way things are typically done in Washington, said Michael McAdams, head of the Advanced Biofuels Association.
While Rubio and Bush and Christie have repeatedly battled in a series of debates, Kasich has sought to stay above the fray and appeal to voters looking for a pragmatist.
He is, however, a blunt pragmatist with a decent IQ. Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
" CHRIS GRAHAM, SENIOR EUROPE ECONOMIST, STANDARD CHARTERED "We don't know where he will come down on in terms of monetary policy but my hunch is he will be a pragmatist.
Like in 2004, another Midwestern pragmatist is making a bid for the moderate lane — though a moderate in today's Democratic Party would look shockingly liberal set against the 2004 field.
In her intelligence, in her gimlet-eyed recognition of both the limits and the possibilities of government, she's a particular kind of inspirational figure, a pragmatist and a Democratic moderate.
Hardline media are accusing the government of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani of reacting too slowly to last weekend's quake, while highlighting aid work by the Revolutionary Guards - a rival power center.
"Even under very difficult economic circumstances, the funds for the IRGC's activities, whether domestic or overseas, remained intact," said a former official close to the government of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani.
Privately, bankers say that they trust her to remain a pragmatist who will keep the current regulatory regime laid down by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform legislation passed in 2010.
Instead, Kaine is boring from an ideological perspective: He's a "party guy," to use Reince Preibus's term, a pragmatist with an ear for compromise and an aversion to rocking the boat.
But if the deal collapses, Iran's balance of power could tilt in favour of the pragmatist Rouhani's hardline rivals who oppose improving ties with the West and are close to Khamenei.
Seeking a second term, pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani, 68, remains the narrow favorite, but hardline rivals have hammered him over his failure to boost an economy weakened by decades of sanctions.
Rouhani, a pragmatist who reduced tension with the West by striking a nuclear deal with world powers in 2015, now faces a backlash from hardliners over Washington's pullout from the pact.
LONDON (Reuters) - Hardline cleric Ebrahim Raisi, seen as pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani's main challenger in a May 19 election, is a close ally of Iran's supreme leader and despises the West.
"Ultimately, Merkel has placed an ally and confidante into the EU's top position while also securing a pragmatist and a safe pair of hands at the ECB," said Rahman at Eurasia.
Is Mourinho any less of a pragmatist or any more likely to give United back its devil-may-care attacking style than van Gaal, from whom he learned his coaching philosophy?
ANKARA (Reuters) - Campaigning officially started on Friday for Iran's May presidential election, pitting pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani against hardliners just as the United States reassesses its policy on the Islamic Republic.
Their selection will help determine whether the Trump administration governs like the firebrand Mr. Trump was on the campaign trail or the pragmatist he often appears to be behind closed doors.
"I am not surprised because Donald Trump is not an ideologue, he's a realist and a pragmatist," said Christopher Ruddy, chief executive of Newsmax Media and a friend of the president's.
However, their friendship gradually turned into rivalry as the pragmatist president sided with reformists who promoted freedoms, while Khamenei followed a conservative interpretation of the core values of the Islamic Republic.
The ability to renew Iran's ageing and accident-prone fleet is widely viewed as a test of the pragmatist policies of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani ahead of presidential elections in May.
Diplomats said this could have been due to Tehran not wanting to raise tensions around its May 19 presidential election, which was won by pragmatist Hassan Rouhani, who championed the deal.
After massive pressure from the pragmatist wing of Trump's National Security Council, Trump eventually underscored U.S. commitment to Article 5, a crucial part of the NATO treaty, the mutual defense doctrine.
France Macron: a pragmatist in a hostile environment SHORTLY after Emmanuel Macron was elected president in May 2778, his new government nationalised a French shipyard in order to thwart an Italian takeover.
If the deal unravels, it would strengthen hardline opponents of Hassan Rouhani, Iran's pragmatist president who opened up diplomatic channels to Western powers to enable nuclear diplomacy after years of worsening confrontation.
Howard Schweitzer, a GOP strategist and managing partner at Cozen O'Connor, a Washington law firm, said Trump is a pragmatist and smart enough to know you can't govern the way you campaigned.
In Iran the deal is viewed as a crucial political test for the government of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani, who has been criticised by hardliners opposed to opening up to the West.
The initial reaction from the Kremlin was to brand the American action as a violation of international law, but Mr Putin the pragmatist may decide that nothing further needs to be done.
There is no more of a pragmatist than me about solving problems, and when you get everybody around a table to negotiate, you don't get everything that you want all the time.
Key is complicit to the extent that he was a pragmatist, who, like nearly all of America's founders and early leaders, inexcusably put the prevailing social order ahead of universal human freedom.
Iran will hold its next presidential election in May 2017, a vote in which pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani may seek a second term to push ahead with reforms resisted by powerful hardliners.
Pragmatist Iranian President Hassan Rouhani echoed Khamenei, saying Iran and Russia together could tackle "regional terrorism" - an allusion to Sunni Muslim armed groups hostile to Iran, Assad and many other Arab states.
The powers of the elected president are limited by those of the unelected Supreme Leader who outranks him, but the scale of Rouhani's victory can give the pragmatist president a strong mandate.
There is little conjuring of the illusions that Blanche says she lives by, and she registers more as a stretched-thin pragmatist in fight-or-flight mode than the usual windblown butterfly.
Columbia University lent him the money to enroll in its graduate school, where he wrote a thesis on the pragmatist and logician C. S. Peirce and earned a master's degree in 19633.
If the accord signed by Iran and six major powers does start to fall apart, anyone who strongly promoted it, such as pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani, could face a career-damaging backlash.
Between the lines: AMLO, as he is known, has played the roles both of rabble-rousing revolutionary and common sense pragmatist — it's not always clear which version Mexico is about to elect.
As Axios' David Lawler wrote last month, he "has played the roles both of rabble-rousing revolutionary and common sense pragmatist — it's not always clear which version Mexico is about to elect."
In Iran the deal is viewed as a crucial political test for the government of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani, who has been criticized by hardliners opposed to opening up to the West.
Whereas Luther displayed the courage of his convictions, Erasmus comes off as a self-protective pragmatist, seeking accommodation with the church so as to pursue his life with a minimum of upset.
But it also points to the route he is hoping to take to the nomination: that of Democratic pragmatist, more inclined to bipartisanship and, in some cases, more moderate than other candidates.
Patriotism may well be the last refuge of the scoundrel, but as a pragmatist like Mr. Rorty would tell you, it is too powerful and too important to leave to the scoundrels.
Mr. Netanyahu, a savvy politician and a pragmatist, is usually the one to put the brakes on the rightward acceleration, such as staving off demands to annex parts of the West Bank.
He's a toughened pragmatist who's made his fortune in part by helping humans oppress his own people, and he has little patience or sympathy for fae who are trapped in worse circumstances.
He can be leftist ideologue and pragmatist, populist and fiscal conservative; he shares a leftist aversion to the North American Free Trade Agreement but has pledged to continue the current government's negotiations.
She is resisting calls for House Democrats to run on single-payer health care coverage and is an unapologetic pragmatist when it comes to those in her ranks who deviate from orthodoxy.
In the past, the two powerful figures had offered contrasting visions for the Iranian economy with the conservative Khamenei calling for self-reliance and the pragmatist Rouhani urging cooperation with the world.
The government of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani is seen as keen to showcase results from the sanctions deal ahead of a May election at which challengers include hardline Shi'ite cleric Ebrahim Raisi.
He should throw out the conventional advice about not running on a narrow set of issues and continue to position himself as the pragmatist, with a proven record of addressing gun violence.
But its relative cratering also reflects Ms. Merkel's skills as a political tactician and an often cold-eyed, nonideological policy pragmatist, even as she has sometimes been cast as a liberal idealist.
Pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani has criticized the disqualifications, but like supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei he has called for a high turnout as the country faces challenges over its disputed nuclear program.
Hardline allies of Khamenei, worried about losing their grip on power, have accused pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani of betraying the anti-Western values of the revolution that toppled the U.S.-backed Shah.
His tougher-than-expected tone rattled Sabzevari, 47, a school teacher in central city of Isfahan, criticised Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, a pragmatist who overcame fierce opposition from hardliners to secure the deal.
Former president Rafsanjani, an ally of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani, is leading the race for membership of the influential Assembly of Experts, a body that chooses Iran's most powerful figure, the supreme leader.
The results, and how the president-elect responds if voters opt to keep the project, will say a lot about Mexico's political future and whether its next president is more pragmatist or revolutionary.
He backed Mugabe's economic nationalism, especially a drive to force foreign firms to hand majority stakes to local blacks, suggesting he may not be the pro-market pragmatist many investors were hoping for.
READ: Pelosi the pragmatist aims her party toward the middle The question is not going away, given Trump's staggeringly broad effort to subvert investigations of his presidency, campaign, personal finances and business career.
"Do you think the ideologue or the pragmatist prevails?" said Cornerstone Macro analyst Roberto Perli, who like many in the markets argues that Trump's most volatile rhetoric won't find its way into practice.
Patrick, whose initial decision to not run for president did not stop allies from urging him on, spent Thursday reintroducing himself as a pragmatist who could stitch together his party and the country.
"Being a pragmatist, Ilham Aliyev does not want to risk the stability of the present for the sake of the war with an unpredictable outcome," Mr. Yusin, the Russian analyst, wrote in Kommersant.
Elizabeth Anderson was awarded for "employing pragmatist methods to examine the ways that various institutions, policies, and social practices serve to promote or hinder conditions of democratic equality," according to the MacArthur Foundation.
While some in the Republican establishment have realized that Trump may indeed be their nominee and begun to defend him as a pragmatist – others are still hoping the party will unify behind Sen.
His tougher-than-expected tone rattled Sabzevari, 47, a school teacher in central city of Isfahan, criticized Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, a pragmatist who overcame fierce opposition from hardliners to secure the deal.
If her career in the Senate is any indication of the kind of campaign she plans to run, Klobuchar's candidacy will give voters a choice: do they want a pragmatist or a revolutionary?
" Acheson fancied himself a pragmatist who, like his director of policy planning, George Kennan, viewed Mao's victory as the result of "tremendous, deep-flowing indigenous forces which are beyond our power to control.
But it's one thing for a nonaligned pragmatist like her to don that environmental mantle; it's another for a party to come in promising to make climate change the core of its agenda.
But hardline allies of Khamenei, including the elite Revolutionary Guards, are wary of losing their grip in power by opening up to the West and have repeatedly criticized pragmatist President Rouhani's foreign policy.
Describing himself as a pragmatist, O'Connor pitched a similar focus on kitchen-table issues but said he has no problems being open about his support for issues like abortion rights and marriage equality.
Though White was nominated by the Democratic president, he was widely seen as a staunch pragmatist — and later grew comfortable as a jurist in the court of conservative Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist.
Mnangagwa backed Mugabe's economic nationalism, especially a drive to force foreign firms to hand majority stakes to local blacks, suggesting he may not be the pro-market pragmatist many investors were hoping for.
Raisi ran in presidential elections in 2017, criticizing pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani for signing a deal with the United States and other powers to curb Iran's nuclear program in return for lifting sanctions.
Not all of her efforts are successful, to be sure, but marriage is a numbers game, and the Bennet matriarch is the sole, the necessary pragmatist in a house filled with idle dreamers.
The Islamic Republic has piled pressure on the pro-reform opposition ahead of a presidential election on May 19, when hardline rivals of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani hope to regain control of executive power.
However, it is unknown when May, known as a pragmatist and respected as a competent and experienced politician, will trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty which sets in motion the process of withdrawal.
Klobuchar has tried all sorts of way to make the case that she should be the fallback pragmatist if Joe Biden falls away, but it looks like Pete Buttigieg has stepped into that slot.
Elected in a landslide in 2013 on a promise to end Iran's diplomatic and economic isolation, pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani has struggled to reconnect Iran's economy to world markets and to attract foreign investment.
Rouhani, a pragmatist who reduced tensions with the West by striking a nuclear deal with world powers in 2015, is now facing a backlash from hardliners over Washington's pullout from the pact in May.
In a speech, President Hassan Rouhani, a pragmatist who has long sought more open economic relations with the outside world, blamed Washington for Iran's hardship, calling on Iranians to "bring America to its knees".
But a Western diplomat, who met him in his villa in the city of Najaf just after he formed a political bloc with communists in March described Sadr as composed, articulate and a pragmatist.
Elected in February, the 290-seat assembly replaces one dominated by hardliners suspicious of detente with the West and who curbed pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani's plans to liberalise the economy and raise lacklustre productivity.
Speaking to parliament on Sunday, Rouhani, a pragmatist elected in 2013 on promises to end Iran's years of sanctions and isolation, said he looked forward to an economic future less dependent on oil exports.
Personally, I'm a bit of a pragmatist: I was intrigued by the premise of past-life regression when I got the cold email about it, but I didn't really put much stock in it.
Among those disqualified from running for the assembly on Friday was Hassan Khomeini, an ally of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani and grandson of the late founder of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei.
Several lawmakers and politicians took to social media calling on the pragmatist Rouhani to reject the resignation, saying it would not serve national interests and would empower hardliners in Iran's faction-ridden clerical establishment.
"President Trump is a pragmatist who is likely to adopt a non-ideological and non-confrontational approach to a diverse political world," Pandjaitan said in an opinion piece published in Singapore's Straits Times newspaper.
Merkel was always a pragmatist, and however difficult the likes of Viktor Orban in Hungary and Alexis Tsipras in Greece could be, she was always there with the German checkbook to bail them out.
A longtime employee of utility giant Duke Energy (he remained on the company's payroll throughout his 22 years as mayor), the Ohio native, raised outside Greensboro, N.C., was regarded as a business-boosting pragmatist.
Elected in February, the 290-seat assembly replaces one dominated by hardliners suspicious of detente with the West and who curbed pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani's plans to liberalize the economy and raise lackluster productivity.
Sure, they share many of the same ideas, but Ms. Warren is a progressive pragmatist who has worked within the system to get things done, including her signal achievement, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Putin's inner circle has plenty of ideologues and anti-American hardliners; Kislyak was seen as a high-ranking counterpoint, a pragmatist who was sincerely interested in building a working relationship with his American counterparts.
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As the story goes, recounted most recently in Jim Holt's fascinating "When Einstein Walked with Gödel," Gödel, at the instigation of his friend and pragmatist Albert Einstein, applied to become a naturalized American citizen.
The issue is particularly sensitive within Iran for the future of the nuclear deal's architect, President Hasan Rouhani, a pragmatist elected in a landslide in 2013 on a promise to reduce Iran's economic isolation.
But he's also a commercial pragmatist charged with doping out ways to capture the attention of a generation for which suits are something one wears to funerals or in court, though not to work.
In fact, though he served in the Irish Senate late in life, he was, during his years working in the theater, more of a political idealist and reactionary than a progressive or a pragmatist.
The scandal forced the Republican establishment to distance itself from Mr. Christie, robbed him of his reputation as a bipartisan pragmatist and exposed him to national media scrutiny before he'd announced as a presidential candidate.
"We think Powell is a solid pragmatist who made one significant error this fall — declaring that 'we're a long way' from a neutral Fed funds rate," wrote Greg Valliere, chief global strategist at Horizon Investments.
Foreign policy barely made an appearance during Sanders's Q&A, while Clinton's session was dominated by the topic—Sanders has emerged as the economic candidate, while Clinton is running as the pragmatist who knows policy.
Louis Viardot emerges as a quiet hero, Pauline Viardot as a ruthless but likeable pragmatist and Turgenev as an insufferable prig whom posterity (and perhaps Louis) could forgive only because of his excellent, observant prose.
The pragmatist president championed a nuclear deal with the United States and five other powers in 2015 that led to the lifting of most sanctions against Iran, in return for curbs on its nuclear program.
Rouhani, a pragmatist who has eased Iran's international isolation and now faces mostly hardline conservative challengers for the presidency, told supporters he needed a stronger mandate to liberalize Iranian society and get opposition leaders freed.
Allies of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani, buoyed by Iran's nuclear deal, hope to gain influence, but moves by hardliners to block moderate candidates and disillusion over Rouhani's stalled reforms leave them with an uphill task.
While McConnell has been a pragmatist throughout his career, stepping in at times to broker deals, such as the debt-limit accord of 2011, Lee and Cruz put a premium on sticking to conservative ideals.
Dan Palmer, a GOP strategist and contributor at The Hill, believes that the past few weeks have shown Trump to be the "pragmatist" that he promised the American voters he'd be on the campaign trail.
Jerome Powell, above, President Trump's nominee to head the Federal Reserve — arguably the second most powerful post in government — is seen as a centrist and pragmatist who will stay Janet Yellen's course on monetary policy.
Despite his persecution, Mr. Roginsky was a pragmatist in dealing with the authorities, his friends said, noting that he had maintained a dialogue with the Putin government even as it grew hostile to his work.
But Mr. Reagan believed he needed someone like Mr. Baker, a dealmaking pragmatist who could work both sides of the aisle, manage difficult personalities and assert his dominance among the staff while channeling the president.
Rouhani, a popular pragmatist now reestablishing ties abroad after last year's nuclear accord with global powers ended economic sanctions, spoke to crowds in Azadi Square in Tehran marking the anniversary of Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution.
For Goldberg, that role on the show is filled by Eddie, while Sarah is the true zealot and Meyerism leader Cal (Dancy) is the pragmatist who understands that religions are also, on some level, businesses.
Amy Klobuchar: The Senator Next Door What she's known for: Klobuchar has a reputation in Congress as a moderate Democrat who has positioned herself as a pragmatist and reaches across the aisle to get things done.
The attack on the military parade is likely to give security hardliners like the Guards more political ammunition because they did not endorse the pragmatist Rouhani's pursuit of the nuclear deal with the West, analysts say.
Rouhani, a pragmatist elected in 2013, thawed Iran's relations with world powers after years of confrontation and engineered its 2015 deal with them under which it curbed its nuclear program in exchange for relief from sanctions.
The nuclear deal was divisive in Iran, with hardliners opposed to better relations with the West arguing that pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani was giving up too much of the country's nuclear infrastructure for too little relief.
DUBAI/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denounced the heated rhetoric of Iran's presidential election campaign on Wednesday as "unworthy", a thinly-veiled rebuke of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani's attacks on his main conservative challenger.
Politicians decide to leave office for many reasons, some of them private, but Dent—who's been in DC a long time and is known as a pragmatist—offered a reason for quitting that's worth pausing on.
Mr Kuczynski, a former banker and World Bank official, is a socially liberal pragmatist whose main goals are to bring more workers into the formal labour market, improve public services and infrastructure and encourage economic growth.
Powell is a current policymaker and is seen by Fed followers as a Yellen-style pragmatist and less likely to sharply raise interest rates than some of the other candidates to have been in the running.
If there's one similarity between E3 and the real world, it's that people are more passionate about someone who gives them what they want, than a business-minded pragmatist that explains a strategy for the future.
Early in her campaign last year for the Democratic presidential nomination, where she cast herself as an experienced pragmatist against fanciful socialist Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton dismissed the Vermont senator's proposal for single-payer health care.
Schultz has sought to cast himself as a bipartisan pragmatist, saying the Democratic Party has drifted to the left on an array of issues and that Republicans are too blind in their support of the president.
While advances by moderates and independents in Friday's polls were most evident in the capital, the scale of the gains in Tehran suggests a legislature more friendly to the pragmatist Rouhani is now a distinct possibility.
But once it was time to climb the stairs, Roberts — a pragmatist and woman after our own hearts — kicked off the platform shoes, lifted up the hem of her gown, and made her way up, barefoot.
The pragmatist president, who is seeking re-election in the May 19 vote, said Iran's economy had improved since his election in 2013 on a platform of ending the country's isolation and creating a freer society.
At her election-night watch party, before Ms. Kelly's race was called, the crowd cheered when a fellow pragmatist and the first-time candidate Sharice Davids defeated a four-term Republican in Kansas's Third Congressional District.
And though she is the pragmatist to his dreamy romantic, they're fully aligned in their overall vision for the brand, which reveals a keen awareness of how Instagram and e-commerce have changed the fashion landscape.
Mr. Kobach, a firebrand on immigration as well as voting laws, resembles the president in tone and style, leaving Mr. Colyer to argue that he is a pragmatist who will more effectively accomplish Trumpian policy goals.
DUBAI, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Iranians massed in central Tehran on Tuesday for the funeral of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in a show of unity to honour the Islamic Republic's polarising pragmatist.
The media baron prizes loyalty and profits, both of which Bill O'Reilly, his ousted Fox News superstar, brought him by the millions — but Mr. Murdoch has also proved time and again that he is a pragmatist.
Such a timetable would mean the first new passenger jets reaching Iran ahead of presidential elections in May, widely considered a key objective for pragmatist president Rouhani who has faced hardline opposition to the aircraft deals.
Ms. Klobuchar's supporters say the office environment has never adversely affected her work, cheering her status as a bipartisan pragmatist with a solidly Democratic record and political instincts more moderate than many of her 2020 peers'.
But the possibility of radically upsetting the duopoly may have receded under new Airbus sales chief Christian Scherer, a market-share pragmatist who helped launch the A320neo, and Faury, a cautious engineer focusing on industrial improvements.
The comments were the latest in a series of tough remarks from Iran's leadership, showing a united front between its pragmatist and hardline factions as U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to harden policy towards Tehran this week.
Khamenei, who has the last word on all major issues of state, formally endorsed Rouhani as president in a ceremony broadcast live on state television on Thursday, after the pragmatist romped to re-election on May 19.
For skeptical voters of color, you also have to factor in Ta-Nehisi Coates's complaint that the democratic socialist who is calling for a political revolution transformed suddenly into a political pragmatist when reparations were brought up.
Analysts said his death at the age of 22012 was a blow to Iran's pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani ahead of presidential elections in May as he played a key role in Rouhani's landslide election victory in 210.
Rouhani, a pragmatist elected in 2013 on a platform to reduce Iran's isolation, championed the deal under which Iran curbed its nuclear program in return for the lifting of U.S., EU and United Nations sanctions this month.
On the left, the white vote was nearly evenly split in Iowa between Hillary Clinton, a pragmatist who believes that the system can be fixed, and Bernie Sanders, a revolutionary who believes that system must be dismantled.
Even if Trump truly wanted to shift from a race-baiting partisan to a deal-making pragmatist — and few signs suggest he does — most Democrats made clear that such efforts will be received with skepticism and resistance.
A pragmatist rather than a gung-ho reformer, Rouhani has tried to fire up the pro-reform camp with speeches that break taboos by targeting Iran's hardline elite, from the conservative judiciary to the powerful Revolutionary Guards.
Rouhani, a pragmatist whose moderate allies are pitted against conservative hardliners in the contest, is running for the Assembly of Experts, which has the task of appointing and dismissing the country's most powerful figure, the supreme leader.
A pragmatist rather than a gung-ho reformer by nature, Rouhani nevertheless fired up the pro-reform camp with speeches that broke taboos by targeting Iran's hardline elite, from the conservative judiciary to the powerful Revolutionary Guards.
During a three-hour debate carried live on state television, the pragmatist Rouhani's opponents sought to denigrate his economic record and said that the Islamic Republic would be harmed if he were re-elected on May 19.
The IRGC's lack of technical expertise and concern over the viability of its economic ventures under sanctions meant it later welcomed pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani's deal that eased sanctions in return for curbs on the nuclear program.
She cited climate change as one of her top three voting issues and said she supported Mr. Biden because he is a pragmatist, and her years studying government have shown her that major structural changes require bipartisanship.
A senior Iranian official said the heightened tensions over the assaults could tip the balance of power in Iran in favour of hardliners looking to constrain pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani's ability to open up to the West.
It's difficult to reconcile the different versions of Swift that exist on Lover: the hopeless romantic and the pragmatist; the believer in her own fairytale and the grown woman who believes the whole construct is a sham.
A senior Iranian official said the heightened tensions over the assaults could tip the balance of power in Iran in favor of hardliners looking to constrain pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani's ability to open up to the West.
After years of fierce clashing between Republican hard-liners and mainstream conservatives, the purity-versus-pragmatist wars have given way to a new, Trump-centered debate that highlights how fully the president has taken over the party.
"The Americans are shamelessly threatening Russia with a new atomic weapon," Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, a pragmatist who opened the way to Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers including longtime adversary Washington, said in a speech.
A former Marine, he campaigned as a pragmatist and problem-solver, interested in "kitchen-table" issues and ignoring the liberal agenda pushed by most of his party's presidential candidates and many in the House Democratic freshman class.
Clinton's argument that she's a proven pragmatist who can get things done—a lynchpin of her campaign against Sanders for the Democratic nomination—rests on a view of history that highlights leaders at the expense of social movements.
Yes, on other issues — the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration program, infrastructure, trade, prescription drug prices, family leave — Trump portrayed himself as more of a pragmatist, willing to depart from the party line or compromise with Democrats.
In the book, I write about a great American pragmatist, Charles Sanders Peirce, who thought that doubt was such an uncomfortable position that people would do almost anything to seize on a belief or conviction that removed it.
Depending on the time of year about 30 percent of what Sainsbury's sells is sourced from the EU. Coupe said he was a pragmatist and was confident negotiations between Britain and the EU would deliver a trade deal.
Since striking a deal with world powers last year under which it curbed its nuclear activity in exchange for sanctions relief, pragmatist Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has sought to mend ties with the West to improve the economy.
Here's where Hickenlooper, the owner of a Denver brewpub, stands on some key business issues: Running against several candidates who have fully embraced a brand of liberal populism, Hickenlooper sees a lane to cast himself as a pragmatist.
Unlike their pragmatist rivals, who believe that the revolution should mellow and make its peace with the world, they have little to offer a population that is exhausted from crisis and economic hardship and seeks normalcy and repose.
Jaret Seiberg, a policy analyst at investment banking and research firm Cowen Group, said Nason's departure is "worrisome" for large banks, as it suggests a "pragmatist" open to providing relief to bigger institutions will not fill the position.
Where He Stands: Kasich has sought to appeal to moderates throughout the GOP nominating contest, positioning himself as a mild-mannered and statesmanly pragmatist in a race that's been marked by heated rhetoric and shifts to the right.
With 25 million ballots from Friday's election certified by the authorities so far, the pragmatist Rouhani won 14.619 million and his hardline conservative challenger Ebrahim Raisi gained 10.125 million, Ahmadi said in a briefing broadcast live on television.
The deal would be signed under the new Iran Petroleum Contract (IPC) scheme which has been postponed several times due to opposition from hardline rivals of pragmatist Rouhani, and while international companies awaited the waiving of U.S. sanctions.
How their office relationship turned into a quick-moving romance that summer, how the box-checking pragmatist warmed to the loose-limbed free spirit, is a delight to read, even though, or perhaps because, we know the outcome.
He presented himself as a potential unifier in a party torn between those preferring a pragmatist with appeal to moderates and independents, and those seeking a fresh face to energize the party's increasingly diverse and left-leaning voters.
ANKARA (Reuters) - Hope for change is dwindling but not gone among supporters of Iran's main pro-reform opposition, although its leaders remain under house arrest and pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani looks incapable of achieving the freer society he promised.
Normally known as a mild-mannered pragmatist rather than a gung-ho reformer, Rouhani has tried to fire up the pro-reform camp with speeches that break taboos by making open references to human rights abuse by the authorities.
The comments by the long-serving hardline cleric demonstrate the difficulty the elected government of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani has in maintaining his policy of keeping Iran open to the outside world in the face of new U.S. sanctions.
Justice Garibaldi, a judicial pragmatist who tilted conservative in criminal cases, served on a court that gained a national reputation in the 1970s and '80s as innovative and progressive through its pioneering rulings on school financing and local zoning.
Earlier on Wednesday, Iran's pragmatist president, Hassan Rouhani, who has drawn fire from hardline clerical leaders for reaching the nuclear pact with world powers in 2015, said Iran was ready for "just negotiations" but not if they mean surrender.
Iranians began voting on Friday in a closely-fought presidential contest between pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani and hard-line challenger Ebrahim Raisi that could determine the pace of social and economic reform and Iran's re-engagement with the world.
Rouhani was the Iranian architect of the nuclear pact and is seen as a pragmatist, unlike senior clerics in the ruling elite who opposed his opening to the West and have kept up their denunciations of the United States.
But it's also hard to see how Biden sweeps to such a convincing set of victories across the country if both Buttigieg and Klobuchar are still on the ballot and siphoning off pieces of the moderate/establishment/pragmatist vote.
But not every character had been captured by the time the credits rolled on the finale: In a secret bunker maintained by the lone-wolf pragmatist Frieda Berlin (Dale Soules), 10 of Litchfield's most familiar faces stood their ground.
The president didn't just call for human beings to respect one another, which is his pragmatist, core fundamental bare minimum, but he called for ideally Americans to love one another, for all of God's children to love one another.
" Obama described Castro as a canny, good-humored pragmatist: "The first time we had the conversation about normalization, he warned me, 'Look, we Castros, we speak a long time, but you're lucky you're talking to me and not Fidel.
Harris' decision to run as a pragmatist rather than appealing more forcefully to the party's progressive wing — combined with slumping debate and campaign trail performances since mid-summer — have affected her ability to gain traction with small-dollar donors.
LONDON (Reuters) - Hardline cleric Ebrahim Raisi, a harsh critic of the West and the standard bearer of Iran's security hawks, has drawn on economic discontent to mount an unexpectedly strong challenge to pragmatist Hassan Rouhani in Friday's presidential elections.
Conversations with more than a dozen members of Congress, current and former agency officials, tech industry insiders, and antitrust experts showed that she's considered an expert in tech policy and a pragmatist by even her political and policy adversaries.
Washington's European allies say the U.S. decision to abandon the agreement was a mistake, which strengthens Iranian hardliners at the expense of Rouhani, a pragmatist who won two landslide elections on promises to open Iran up to the world.
Ultimate authority in Iran is wielded by Khamenei, a hardline cleric in power since 1989, although the country is run day-to-day by Rouhani, the pragmatist president who won two landslide elections on promises to open Iran to the world.
There is no guarantee that will make him a pragmatist: indeed, perhaps because he has so few fixed beliefs (beyond protectionism), he has appointed ideologues to key positions, like a vaudeville boss crafting a playbill to sell every last seat.
Trump singled out Iran as a key source of funding and support for militant groups during his visit to Saudi Arabia in late May, two days after the Iranian election in which pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani won a second term.
Rouhani, a pragmatist whose 2013 election cleared the way for the thaw in relations with the outside world, owes his success to Iran's top authority: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei endorsed the nuclear agreement, overriding hardliners who oppose dealing with Washington.
Koichi Hori, the chairman of consulting firm Dream Incubator Inc and a former president of Boston Consulting in Japan, who worked with Hagerty in the early 1990s, termed him a pragmatist who might not always toe Trump's conservative line on trade.
Mr. Straus, a pragmatist with deep ties to the Bush family who had tangled with his state's hard-liners, delivered a plea that Republicans "appeal to our diverse population with an optimistic vision," but he still chose flight over fight.
For quite a while Truhen can't decide whether Price is a psychopath (that would perhaps be faintly alienating to the reader, you feel him dimly sensing, with all the exquisite sensitivity of a feral pig charging an alligator) or a pragmatist.
Privately, Ms. Harris's critics and rivals wondered if she was being pulled in opposing directions, by the progressive wing of the party that wants a candidate who openly embraces structural change and by her more natural instinct as a pragmatist.
As the campaign has edged along, she has more explicitly rejected the language of "structural change" that defines the more leftist candidates and increasingly cast herself as a policy pragmatist in the tradition of Democrats like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
That came as no surprise to Deschamps: Even though he would go on to win the award, Deschamps, a pragmatist as a player and now a coach, is accustomed to the more flashier men in the trade stealing the spotlight.
Mr. Buehler, an orthopedic surgeon, has made the pitch to voters that he would be a pragmatist governor, aiming to address Oregon's problems the way he was trained as a doctor — diagnosing issues and addressing them with logic, not partisanship.
Known as a pragmatist and centrist inclined toward economic liberalism and political authoritarianism, Mr. Rafsanjani was accused by critics of corruption in amassing his fortune and of a readiness for harsh tactics to deal with dissent at home and abroad.
Rouhani, seen as a pragmatist who is at odds with hardliners, said: "People on the streets do not ask for bread and water, but for more freedom," — implying that the protesters were not targeting his government but the more rigid establishment.
Rouhani, seen as a pragmatist who is at odds with hardliners, said: "People on the streets do not ask for bread and water, but for more freedom," -- implying that the protesters were not targeting his government but the more rigid establishment.
But even more than in the original series, the heart of the show is Orlando's nimble, delicate comic performance as Voiello, the scheming but soulful pragmatist who will do just about anything to protect the church — even dispose of inconvenient popes.
But even more than in the original series, the heart of the show is Orlando's nimble, delicate comic performance as Voiello, the scheming but soulful pragmatist who will do just about anything to protect the church — even dispose of inconvenient popes.
Quite a number of centrist Israelis imagine Bibi this way, as a careerist and a pragmatist, holding out hope that he could one day potentially make a bold gesture toward the Palestinians if it felt like the winning thing to do.
Seven years earlier, in Frears's "The Queen," Helen Mirren took the part of Elizabeth II and lent it a musing reflectiveness that, however winning, seemed slightly at odds with the dutiful pragmatist, braced by common sense, who occupies the British throne.
The growing support for impeachment poses a test for Pelosi, the political pragmatist who views the 2020 elections as the Democrats' best chance at removing Trump and doesn't want to risk a political backlash that could benefit Republicans at the polls.
Though Mr. Mnangagwa served for decades as Mr. Mugabe's enforcer, including orchestrating the rigging of previous elections, he has presented himself as a break from the past — a pragmatist eager to mend relations with the West and make Zimbabwe business-friendly.
Another is that it has come to think of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi as a consummate pragmatist, and at a time when the Myanmar army, known as the Tatmadaw, was making political and military overtures to the United States and its allies.
Iran's pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani, who has publicly reached out to Riyadh repeatedly since his election in 2013, on Sunday rebuked the Al Saud for their own regional stance and called on them to "take the path that will benefit the region".
Iran's pragmatist president Hassan Rouhani's success in ending international sanctions by reaching the deal has also intensified a power struggle among the country's faction-ridden elite, who have criticised the deal for a lack of tangible economic benefits since sanctions were lifted.
They see Mr Mnangagwa as a pragmatist and point out that he has spoken of the need for Zimbabwe to reconcile with the West, reform its economy and offer compensation to white farmers who were chased off their land by Mr Mugabe.
He's a "pragmatist," as he says many times in the interview below, which depending on who you ask either means compromise to the point of being compromised, or simply that he has a knack for actually getting things done where others merely talk.
Rouhani, a pragmatist elected in 2013 on a platform to reduce Iran's isolation, championed the deal finalized last July under which Iran agreed to curb its nuclear program in return for the lifting of US, EU, and United Nations sanctions this month.
Bullock presents himself as a potential unifier in a party torn between those who prefer a pragmatist who can appeal to moderates and independents, and those who want a fresh face who can energize the party's increasingly diverse and left-leaning voters.
Sending a tough message to Tehran shortly after pragmatist Hassan Rouhani was re-elected president, Trump had urged Arab and Islamic leaders to unite to defeat Islamist militants, and said Iran had for decades "fueled the fires of sectarian conflict and terrors".
The launch of the IPC has been postponed several times as hardline rivals of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani resisted any deal that could end the so-called buy-back system, under which foreign firms were banned from owning stakes in Iranian companies.
All three of the principals are terrific, but it's Hall who most stands out, portraying Elizabeth as a fiercely independent pragmatist who understands the impediments they face and remains sensitive -- unlike her dreamy-eyed husband -- to the prying eyes of the outside world.
Michael BennetMichael Farrand BennetThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump searches for backstops amid recession worries Biden, Buttigieg bypassing Democratic delegate meeting: report The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape MORE (D-Colo.), a passionate pragmatist, into the top tier.
The launch of the Iran Petroleum Contract (IPC) has been postponed several times as hardline rivals of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani resisted any deal that could end the buy-back system, under which foreign firms were banned from owning stakes in Iranian companies.
If your aesthetic inclinations are still shaky, Donna Garlough's "Your Home, Your Style: How to Find Your Look & Create Rooms You Love" (Rizzoli, $45, 208 pp.) offers to help you discover your "design disposition": Self-Expressionist, Pragmatist, Historian, Dream Weaver or Tinkerer.
He has positioned himself as a pragmatist in a field of candidates who are moving to the left under pressure from the party's progressive wing, winning support from minority voters and others who believe he would be most likely to defeat Trump.
Appearing on Fox News on Wednesday evening for a town hall event in Milwaukee, Ms. Klobuchar described herself as "Heartland Amy," an experienced pragmatist who could win over independent voters and, if elected, work with Republicans to break the gridlock in Washington.
Khamenei, whose remarks on Monday come amid a sharp fall in the rial currency that has prompted angry protests, criticized the government of President Hassan Rouhani, a pragmatist cleric who championed the 2015 deal aimed at ending Iran's political and economic isolation.
During his time on the San Antonio City Council and as mayor, in a city which is now 60 percent Latino, Mr. Castro maintained a reputation as a reserved pragmatist — very different from the kind of activist politics his mother adopted for decades.
When Hassan Rouhani, a moderate pragmatist, was elected president of Iran in 2013, Qaboos, sensing an opportunity, promptly traveled to Tehran, becoming the first head of state to call on Mr. Rouhani; he also met with Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Pitching herself as a pragmatist, Klobuchar is targeting former Republicans unhappy with President Donald Trump, moderate Democrats uninterested in Biden or disappointed by his early performances, and progressives who feel that her practical approach makes her more electable than Warren or Sanders.
Clarida has taught at Columbia since 1988 and is a managing director at Pacific Investment Management Co. He is seen as a pragmatist rather than an idealist and is well regarded by both conservative and liberal economists, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The minister currently responsible for housing, Malthouse gained a reputation as a pragmatist and mediator earlier this year when Conservative lawmakers with widely different views on Brexit came together for discussions he chaired, to thrash out a compromise that was then put to May.
All of which confirms that as ambitious as her agenda is, Clinton is, at root, a pragmatist who is focused on making the most of the current political atmosphere rather than pinning her hopes on transforming that atmosphere to make more expansive change possible.
A pragmatist to the core, Mr Mnangagwa's first act on the day he took over his department in 1980 was to visit the police station where he had been tortured by the white regime after his capture for trying to blow up a train.
The two men are close, but Castro is seen as more of a pragmatist who built Cuba's army and brought efficient management to some of the military's powerful companies during long years in the shadow of his brother Fidel, who ruled the country until 2008.
But Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, a pragmatist who helped engineer the 23 deal to ease Iran's economically crippling isolation, told French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in a phone call that Europe had only a "limited opportunity" to preserve the pact, the Iranian Students' News Agency reported.
By "opposition", Karroubi meant that Khamenei, head of a Shi'ite theocracy, should not be wielding ultimate power while criticizing the government of elected President Hassan Rouhani, a pragmatist who wants to liberalize an economy dominated by the elite Revolutionary Guards and other state conglomerates.
Because Trump is a pragmatist looking to cut deals and rack up accomplishments, DeMint said conservative activists can't sit back and assume his administration will continue on the same trajectory as the past several months, when his Cabinet and court picks met their expectations.
Not a single-issue candidate "I am not a single-issue candidate, and I do not believe we live in a single-issue country," Clinton said in her closing statements, making her appeal as a pragmatist who can get things done in office. 6.
The launch of the Iran Petroleum Contract (IPC) has been postponed several times as hardline rivals of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani resisted any deal that could end the so-called buy-back system, under which foreign firms were banned from owning stakes in Iranian companies.
While Gonzalez has no electoral record, he's spent the past week rolling out a series of videos and position papers to outline his policies, with an eye toward positioning himself as a pragmatist whose lack of electoral experience won't be a problem in Washington.
Iran's pragmatist president Hassan Rouhani's success in ending international sanctions by reaching a deal with world powers has also intensified tensions ahead of May presidential elections with hardliners, who have criticized the deal for a lack of tangible economic benefits since sanctions were lifted.
Sixteen years later, in 2006, he successfully rebranded himself as a centrist pragmatist who took pains not to identify too closely with the so-called Pink Tide, the wave of leftist governments that swept Latin America from the early twenty-first century until about 2016.
It's been a very good place for me personally and it's a place where I see possibility every day, but I sort of believe it's also a place where, kind of as a pragmatist, I'm like O.K., we just need to start talking about solutions.
"I think everyone in America and the world was trying to be the next cool thing, you know, and no one was really worried about just writing great songs," said Felber, the group's pragmatist, in late March, during a band recording session in Nashville.
" Mr. Gant writes, of this intervention from above: "The Tudor musician, ever the pragmatist, did his best to carry on being true to his inheritance and beliefs, while at the same time not getting into trouble, at least until the next change came along.
But Soleimani was also a pragmatist, cooperating with the U.S. at critical moments, such as during the initial fight against the Taliban following 85033/11, the formation of the Iraqi Governing Council in 2003 and, more recently, in the fight against the Islamic State.
Collins comes off the fence Collins has a reputation as a moderate and a pragmatist who rarely trades in the fiercely partisan rhetoric of colleagues on both sides of the aisle and often seems an odd fit for a party taken over by Trump.
Kaine's little-known intervention on behalf of Sallie Mae, as detailed in about a half dozen emails in 2009, reveal a pragmatist who, in this case, was willing to forward a special interest's concerns to the right people — albeit without his full-throated endorsement.
The people who know him well are keenly aware of how ill-fitted Alexander — a former governor and Cabinet secretary who carries with him the political wisdom of his mentor, former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, a renowned pragmatist — might be to these times.
The Ahvaz incident could prove more of a setback for Rouhani, a pragmatist leader whose position within Iran has been severely weakened by the U.S. withdrawal from a nuclear deal with world powers that he engineered and which the Guards and other hardliners opposed.
A senior Iranian official, who also asked not to be named, said pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani, Zarif and Revolutionary Guards commanders have had several meetings with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the last say on all Iranian policy, to secure his backing for missile talks.
Spain's tone has softened since then, aided by the appointment in November of Alfonso Dastis, a European-minded pragmatist, to the foreign ministry and by pressure from the Andalucian government, which is worried about the economic effects of a hard border on the surrounding, unemployment-hit region.
The May 19 election is shaping up primarily as a contest between Rouhani, a pragmatist who has improved the Islamic Republic's relations with the West and sought to liberalize Iranian society, and Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline conservative cleric who served in the judiciary for many years.
This news, depending on whether you are a Twitter-must-never-change die-hard or a pragmatist, is either the worst thing to happen in the not-so-long history of social media or the natural evolution of a company trying to find a bigger audience.
" A bigger problem for Klobuchar may be that the stories about her mistreating staff conflict with her "Minnesota nice" public persona: a pragmatist able to work across the aisle who holds widespread popularity across her state and even titled her 2015 memoir "The Senator Next Door.
Though Scully was a disciplined pragmatist, she was also a woman of faith—a faith that wavered or faded, so much so that she lost touch with the possibility of meaning greater than the mortal coil, despite the thin golden cross she always wore around her neck.
Klobuchar's pitch as a homey, Midwestern pragmatist appealed to voters looking for a moderate nominee to take on President Donald Trump and also looking to turn a generational page — but not as far as 38-year-old small-town Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who dropped out Sunday.
Diarmaid Ferriter, a historian at University College Dublin, said Mr. Adams would be remembered as a ruthless pragmatist who had taken part in the escalation of violence in the 1970s, then led the long retreat from armed struggle that began in the 1980s while avoiding major splits.
But not long ago, it appeared to some that Clinton could make a convincing case to the left about how she could be more successful than Obama: namely, that she'd be a tough-as-nails pragmatist, better able to fight and win in grinding political combat.
Koichi Hori, the chairman of consulting firm Dream Incubator Inc and a former president of Boston Consulting in Japan, who worked with Hagerty in the early 1990s, described him to Reuters in January as a pragmatist who might not always toe Trump's conservative line on trade.
The loss of confidence both reflects and contributes to wider problems threatening pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani in Iran's faction-ridden clerical establishment: investment has dried up as banks limit lending, growth is slowing and unemployment is at a record high, exposing Rouhani to growing criticism from hardliners.
Its launch has been postponed several times as hardline rivals of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani resisted any deal that could end a buy-back system dating back more than 20 years under which foreign firms have been banned from booking reserves or taking equity stakes in Iranian companies.
Accompanied by a small platoon of aides, including two of his former deputy mayors from New York City and a security team that flitted around a downtown waterfront nearly barren of pedestrians, Mr. Bloomberg described himself as a political pragmatist skilled at wielding his wealth to win elections.
Rouhani, a pragmatist who won two elections on promises to open Iran up to the world, said the White House's actions were "mentally retarded" - an insult that other Iranian officials have used in the past about Trump, but a departure from Rouhani's own comparatively measured tone over the years.
An elite insider who has held senior political and military posts since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Rouhani comes off as a pragmatist unlike Khamenei and his allies, and analysts have cast doubt on his ability to balance their demands and the expectations of his often young and more liberal supporters.
Rouhani, a pragmatist who reduced tensions with the West by striking a nuclear deal with world powers in 2015, is now facing a backlash from rival hardliners over Washington's pullout from the pact in May and reimposition of tough sanctions that seek to throttle Iran's economy including its lifeblood oil exports.
The vote has shaped up to be primarily a contest between incumbent president Hassan Rouhani, a pragmatist who has campaigned on a platform of opening up the country to the West and easing social restrictions, and hardline rival Ebrahim Raisi, who served in top positions in the judiciary for years.
Raymond La Raja, a professor of political science at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, told CNN that chairing Ways and Means is a job a pragmatist like Neal is prepared for even if he may not be the vision of the attack dog the Democratic base may have had in mind.
He seems a more natural fit, certainly — where Valverde has always been a pragmatist at heart, his successor has spent his career, as El País put it, "in love with the ball" — though his credentials are oddly threadbare for a coach of the biggest and now richest club in the world.
Ms. Le Pen's main opponent, Emmanuel Macron — who is forecast to make it past the first round of voting with her and then win the second — has tirelessly repeated that even though he has a social bent, he is principally a progressive and a pragmatist, and favors globalization and finance.
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"This is an important time to see whether Xi is a rigid ideologue like Mao or the pragmatist that previous Chinese leaders like Deng, Jiang and Hu were," said Susan L. Shirk, the chairwoman of the 21st Century China Program at the University of California, San Diego, referring to Mr. Xi's predecessors.
WASHINGTON — On the campaign trail, from the debate stage and in private fund-raisers, Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota trumpets her years of experience as a lawmaker and her bipartisan appeal as a pragmatist as the central assets that would make her the toughest Democratic nominee to face off against President Trump.
In May 2013, Mr. Rafsanjani announced plans for a comeback, entering his name for presidential elections that June, calculating that, after the years of sanctions-driven decline under Mr. Ahmadinejad, Iranians would think that Mr. Rafsanjani's reputation as a pragmatist and modernizer would offset some of the opprobrium attached to his staggering wealth.
But what makes their rivalry so compelling is the sense that they stand for alternate visions of what soccer is, or should be: Guardiola, the poet with prizes, and Mourinho, the unapologetic pragmatist; the romantic against the realist; one coach focused only on the outcome, and the other obsessed with perfecting the process.
He asked why Sanders opposes reparations even as he, unlike Clinton, backs all other sorts of politically extreme policies: The spectacle of a socialist candidate opposing reparations as "divisive" (there are few political labels more divisive in the minds of Americans than socialist) is only rivaled by the implausibility of Sanders posing as a pragmatist.
In his legacy as prophetic radical and political pragmatist, in the almost unimaginable bravery of his early journey and the resilience of his later career, in his achievements as a writer, activist, crusader, intellectual, father, and man, the claim that he was the greatest figure that America has ever produced seems hard to challenge. ♦
Each author cogently places Mr. de Blasio in context, if from slightly different perspectives (as suggested by their titles): "Reclaiming Gotham: Bill de Blasio and the Movement to End America's Tale of Two Cities" by Juan González; and "The Pragmatist: Bill de Blasio's Quest to Save the Soul of New York" by Joseph P. Viteritti.
Take a core sample from almost any story about Hillary Clinton in the massive armamentarium where they are stored and—like one of those Simpsons subterranean pan shots, revealing layers of absurd archaeology—all the Hillarys we have come to know will appear: the A student, the opportunist, the mastermind, the rat fink, the pragmatist, the truth-twister.
Britain often looks to Germany as a fellow pragmatist and potential ally within the EU. Johnson wants the EU to drop the 'backstop', a policy that would tie the UK to the bloc's trading rules after Brexit until a better way is found to preserve the open border between EU member Ireland and the British province of Northern Ireland.
I mean like, look, I'm not trying to be ... I'm a pragmatist, and any kind of strong opinion I have around things — for example, advertising — it doesn't come from ... it only comes from the fact that I believe that, fundamentally, it ends up driving the attention economy, which I think is undermining our general sanity and consciousness.
Some of the arguments Clinton's used have been criticized as misleading by commentators, but the health reform issues gets to the heart of the differences between those two leading candidates: one is a bone-deep pragmatist obsessed with what can actually get done, and the other hopes to mobilize a political revolution to move US politics far to the left.
At the heart of the party's schism is a debate over whether Democrats are more likely to defeat Mr. Trump by appealing to the electoral middle, nominating a pragmatist of the sort who helped them prevail in the 2018 elections, or by elevating a progressive who can galvanize some of the young and nonwhite voters who sat out the 2016 general election.
And as is often the case with the American president, even his closest aides say they are not sure which Mr. López Obrador will emerge: the avuncular leader who preaches love and morality, the leftist firebrand who skewers opponents, the pragmatist aiming for a broader development deal for the region — or the impetuous politician who seems to make it up as he goes along.
Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, who won her office in 2018 with a convincing 10-point victory over Mr. Trump's favored candidate in a state that he had won in 2016, represents what party leaders consider the archetype for a successful candidate in the Trump era, a "fix the damn roads" pragmatist, to use her own words, who can work with Republicans on bread-and-butter issues.

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