How To Use Prag In A Sentence
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One is a practical optimist, the other a level-headed pragmatist.
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The Early Devonian saw a decline to 20 genera, with a slow return by the end of the Pragian, a tectonically active phase marked by global sea level drawdowns, and provinciality.
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Or a pragmatic solution to an expensive problem that has dogged homebuyers for decades?
Times, Sunday Times
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It is politically safer – yes, even pragmatic – to describe one’s values as "commonsensical" or "middle of the road.
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More particularly, in the hoodedness of her eyes, she reminded me of Malvina Schalkova, the Prague-born artist posthumously famous for the sketches and watercolors she made in Theresienstadt, and whose self-portrait, mirroring an infinity of sorrow, I first became familiar with when I visited Theresienstadt with Zoë.
Kalooki Nights
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Perhaps this dim-bulb mayor, and the MSM in fawning over Klepto Deb, are confusing pragmatist with pilferer or purloiner or maybe larcenist.
Sound Politics: What does "pragmatist" mean?
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She had the kind of clear, clean progressive politics that came directly from the heart and the head: she didn't possess an ounce of guile or expediency, the latter sometimes miscalled pragmatism by those who favour power over principle.
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Henry, ever the pragmatist, considered the farrago of his brother's recent attempted coup, which had ended in the destruction of the Jacobite clans, to have been the Stuarts' last chance.
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But to Mr. Robin there is no actually existing Burkeanism anywhere, making those who cite the ideal of a reasonable, pragmatic, nonreactionary conservatism guilty of the kind of utopianism the left is more commonly faulted for.
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The interface between syntax and pragmatics may in general be summarized in a Kantian apophthegm: pragmatics without syntax is empty; syntax without pragmatics is blind.
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Are you talking about multiaxial loading close to the axial fatigue limit? or the multiaxial fatigue limit itself? pragtic on Wed, 2010-03-17 12: 17.
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She contends that U.S. officials overreacted, rather than dealing pragmatically with adoption procedures in a country where poverty and a long-running insurgency fueled widespread child abandonment, impaired record-keeping, and hampered official investigative capabilities.
Despite Hurdles, Families Pursue Nepal Adoptions
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The Iranian voting public put a hardliner and a conservative pragmatist into a run-off election with their ballots on Friday.
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The pragmatic differentiation between classificatory, potential and actual affines is undertaken in accordance with the proscriptive principles described above, and is framed within a consubstantial conception of relatedness.
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Under Pragmatic(al) she read; meddlesome, positive, dictatorial (she snorted, irritably).
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Nevertheless, incumbent officeholders, candidates, and aspirants are pragmatic to a fault, and their main concern is with winning elections.
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It's interesting, Antonia, because brides and grooms are so much more pragmatic these days.
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Consequently it has provided a testing ground for a number of competing hypotheses concerning the relationship between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics in linguistic theory.
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The Czechs had been Nazified, then communized, their Prague Spring crushed by Russian tanks.
The Return
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He is consistent in the application of his brand of pragmatism.
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NUREMBERG SCHOOL: Half-way between the sentiment of Cologne and the realism of Prague stood the early school of Nuremberg, with no known painter at its head.
A Text-Book of the History of Painting
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Perhaps these pragmatic effects do not strictly affect literal sentence meaning, then.
The Times Literary Supplement
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It was a portent of climatic things to come, which culminated in the worst floods in living memory in cities such as Prague and Dresden.
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Two further weeks were spent on an exterior set, built into the ruins of a castle outside Prague, where the streets of London were constructed.
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Some Pascalians propose combining pragmatic and epistemic factors in a two-stage process.
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But for all his reputation as a pragmatist, there's a steely and obdurate side to him that comes to the surface every so often.
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Almost immediately, Sprague tags a braking Rezendes in the rear bumper, nearly sending Rezendes into a 180-degree spin.
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Not always smoothly — Peirce himself parted ways with his fellow pragmatist William James, largely over the idea that truth was mutable, that is, what is "true" can become not true and even then true again, depending on the situation.
Archive 2008-08-01
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His intelligence was pragmatic, solving problems with energy, verve and disciplined iteration.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even more fundamental than these pragmatic constraints, however, is the educational philosophy underlying the two initiatives.
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METHODS: Sprague - Dawley rats received food and water ad libitum in 1 week of acclimation.
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Plans are also underway for an exchange visit from members of an orchestra in Prague in April.
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Pragmatism as a conception of law does not stipulate which of these various visions of good community are sound or attractive.
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Yet lumpish Jane's fairytale romance is left stranded on the roadside by the self-centered pragmatism of robbers on the run.
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They can also be used for the basis of better short term pragmatic decision making and long term strategic planning.
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Recent linguistic work on characterisation has used the principles and analytical techniques of pragmatics and discourse analysis to considerable effect.
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Within a week, Hitler had occupied the Sudetenland, and six months later German tanks rolled into Prague.
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Moreover, even though the men in the film do ultimately incorporate the mother, her return is experienced by the audience as an unfair intrusion and the men's inclusion of her in their ménage a generous (if also pragmatic) gesture.
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But there is a great many discoursive structures, a lot of semantics and pragmatics, that are not learned until much later, even in monolinguals.
Languagehat.com: MULTILINGUAL KID.
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The bumper payday was partly a result of pragmatism and caution rather than grand design.
Times, Sunday Times
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The pretext to begin circulating Perry's name for a presidential run will be easily established, and the Tea Partiers that he energized with his irresponsible talk of secession will slowly turn pragmatic and confront the question of who can win in 2012.
James Moore: Yo, America. It's Texas. We Got Another One for Ya!
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In its place, the Beijing Consensus supposedly offers pragmatic economics and made-to-order authoritarian politics.
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In 1912 he held the chair of theoretical physics at the German University of Prague.
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The 'correct' standard to set for claims to knowledge is to be decided pragmatically, on grounds of practical convenience.
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But his allies insist he is an instinctive Eurosceptic who is simply taking a pragmatic approach.
Times, Sunday Times
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Second, pragmatism is the thing human society can least afford at this stage in our development.
Matthew Yglesias » Bob Corker Blasts GOP Leadership
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The president of Business Process Industries Association of India, Samir Chopra, says eventually economic pragmatism will prevail, ensuring that outsourcing continues to flourish.
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China has always been a country which regards entity as more important than procedures with the belief in the philosophical theory of pragmatism as seen in the saying that "all's well that ends well.
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Based on the existing researches, this paper carries out homonymy research from different points of views, like lexicology, semantics, rhetoric, pragmatics, comparative linguistics and so on.
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Buyers will do well to take pragmatic view.
Times, Sunday Times
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Russian envoy Grigory Berdennikov said world powers expect Iran to show what he called a "pragmatic attitude" and respond positively.
World Powers Urge Iran to Return to Nuclear Talks
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There are often pragmatic reasons for the preference of certain types of conjunction and the frequency with which conjunctions are used in general.
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Unfortunately, while it is eminently pragmatic, that doesn't mean that it's actually morally right.
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It was a pragmatic alliance, but tenuous from the start.
The Short, Violent Life of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
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Certain civil servants were advocating a more pragmatic approach to the situation, however.
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While his voice was hardly dissenting, it was heavy with cautiousness and pragmatism.
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This is a programme that any pragmatic centre-right government could be proud of.
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It's exactly the kind of thing a pragmaticist would accept that a metaphysician of Scientific Truth would not accept.
Languagehat.com: WINE TALK.
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This liberates us to be both principled and pragmatic!
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Clearly inflected by the more profound nuances of Japanese tradition, Pawson's spirit of sensuous rationalism meets such pragmatic challenges head on.
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The study was published in the Journal of Pragmatics.
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That is a short-term, pragmatic solution that would bring an awful lot more flights into the country.
Times, Sunday Times
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( "How To Make Our Ideas Clear," 1878) But thinking about music in a Peircean way has been largely in the context of semiotics, not logic, or pragmatism, or "pragmaticism.
Archive 2008-08-01
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The semantic difficulty may be seen in the various ways historians have used the word pragmatic.
Interpretations of American History
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We got a hint of that in Chapter Two, but the fuller story of the decade-long transformation of NAM from militance to pragmatism is well worth telling.
Radical-In-Chief
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We know from the theoreticians of pragmatics that there's a useful distinction to be drawn between intended and actual perlocutionary effects, but this is usually discussed with reference to the effect of an utterance on the persons we are talking to.
Archive 2009-01-01
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Through a twenty-year correspondence, Otto von Habsburg has also shown me the manners and politesse of the Old World juxtaposed with the pragmatism and political sense of the new.
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A more pragmatic approach is to consider a trial of therapy with a granular drink (cholestyramine) that mops up bile.
Times, Sunday Times
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He comes from the pragmatic, not to say technocratic, centre of the party.
Times, Sunday Times
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In all but four of the interviews, the creatives noted that pragmatic considerations override personal preferences and motives when creating ads.
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Furthermore, unschooled pragmatism tends to set aside questions of due process, or of rights.
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Last year in the Czech Republic, Prague was bespeckled with ads for a new hypermarket called Cesky Sen (Czech Dream).
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But they take what they describe as a pragmatic approach, saying it's a better alternative to extending a U.N. mandate, due to expire Dec. 31, that would allow American troops far more freedom to operate.
Top Stories - Google News
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And it was heartening to see Synod commended this pragmatic approach.
Times, Sunday Times
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In light of the mission to spread the gospel, the division of the churches seemed pragmatically ineffective and theologically scandalous.
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It seems to be, at this intermediate stage of nominal determiner grammaticalization, a lexical feature of indefinites rather than an effect of syntactic or pragmatic factors.
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Our approach is essentially pragmatic.
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In that sort of pragmatism, paying to submit is a good reason to give a potential market a pass.
Do Not Submit to Narrative Magazine
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The archbishop of the Prague archdiocese is the only Czech cardinal.
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Several Jewish enclaves already existed within the Holy Roman Empire (from Prague to Frankfurt) well before the sixteenth century.
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We have long prided ourselves as being an exceedingly pragmatic and practical people.
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In such formulations, there are striking similarities between Critical Theory and American pragmatism.
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The pragmatic approach notes that churches grow in different ways with different leaders and varying philosophies.
Christianity Today
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The foxy temptress and swooning beauty of popular imagination was a violent pragmatist for whom death held no chill.
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We read Jeri Laber's article "Witch Hunt in Prague" [NYR, April 23] with great interest while we were in Prague studying the implementation in Czechoslovakia of the screening law, the so-called "lustration" process, for the British Helsinki Human Rights Group.
Human Rights in Prague
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Prague and Galicia and Hungary, from Lombardy and Venetia, and from their own easy-going capital, had destituted Metternich.
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1
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He balanced my more radical views of industrial relations with his more pragmatic outlook.
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At the same time, however, he has shown himself capable of pragmatism.
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Having developed the capacity to play some breathtaking rugby, we have sometimes failed to serve this captivating dish with a side order of pragmatism.
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She moved to Raleigh, she remarried, and she had breast cancer—but she is pragmatically Zen about all of it.
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Then again, it's probably the most pragmatic approach to adolescence in an age of ubiquitous photography.
Times, Sunday Times
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The scene is now set for a return match later in the year, as both players go head-to-head again in November's EuroTel Trophy match in Prague.
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Describing himself as a ‘pragmatic centralist’, Professor Cox called for more scientists to engage in debate beyond their laboratories.
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Since the war, important festivals have been held annually or biannually in Berlin, London, Moscow, Prague and Czechoslovakia.
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It was a matter of great speculation between them as to what the plans of the "outlanders" were for the overthrowing of the power of the Great Ones and the destruction of the entire breed of Prags.
"Microcosmic Buccaneers" by Harl Vincent, part 8
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Labour's campaign in the weeks leading to municipal elections bore all the traces of populist pragmatism.
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So I noticed," Dundee nodded, recalling the deathly pallor of the girl's face as Sprague had glibly explained away that damning note and all its implications.
Murder at Bridge
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Despite many advantages, such a definition fails to draw attention to the unifying characteristics of pragmatic phenomena.
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* [6573] Oimai men egō ton alēthestaton logon peri toutōn einai ō Sōkrates, meizō tina dunamin einai ē anthrōpeian, tēn themenēn ta prōta onomata tois pragmasin.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
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In one of the Metro stations in the city of Prague, called Praha by a nation fond of open-ended gutturals, there's a Bus Information Booth where you can buy tickets to interesting destinations in the Czech countryside.
Crosscut
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An understanding of the structural roots of family and gender shifts is essential if we are to reclaim ‘family values’ and develop a pragmatic, progressive, pro-family agenda.
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M.I.A. Hip-hop electro, Jamaican dancehall, Brazilian baile funk, South Asian bhangra — Maya Arulpragasam, better known as M.I.A., draws on all of them in sparse, noisy, low-fi groove tracks that sound like they come from some imagined third world street.
CMJ Music Marathon - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
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US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev are due to sign a landmark nuclear arms treaty in the Czech capital Prague.
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To analyse language and to define language disorders most linguists divide language into four domains: phonology, grammar, semantics, and pragmatics.
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Pure pragmatism is the antithesis of populism, and Washington tars politicians with mark of the unprincipled politician.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Bloggers think Repubs should associate with Tea Party. Disagree on whether independent run would help Crist
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In cities such as Prague, expatriates were glued to televisions in bars, bemused locals looking on.
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I am a slightly lazy, time-poor, unpretentious pragmatist.
Times, Sunday Times
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And it was heartening to see Synod commended this pragmatic approach.
Times, Sunday Times
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We retrospectively reanalysed data from our single blind, randomised and controlled study of early identification of depression and pragmatic intervention by psychogeriatric consultation.
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His philosophy of pragmatic capitalism and backslapping politics were viciously attacked by members of the Northern black elite.
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Utopian rhetoric about worldwide democratic capitalism is being replaced by the more pragmatic project of globalisation in one country.
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He was unusual in his ability to speak Czech with some fluency; he would not accept with his father's readiness the pragmatic cultural compromises adopted by so many among Prague's Jewish community.
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Ten male Sprague-Dawley breeder rats, weighing between 450 and 550 g, were fasted overnight, except for free access to water.
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City of grandiose and elegant façades, the gracious arcades of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuelle, here the Milanese mix their cool pragmatism with a love of the good life.
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What about something like a #pragma preprocessor that would involve a string so that when the user uploaded the code to LP, LP would recognize it and enable Rosetta translations automatically?
Planning For 10.10: Growing Our Translations Community | jonobacon@home
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When a community of inquirers shares their information openly, the sum of their knowledge approaches the ideal of pragmatic truth.
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One day I hope to talk of pragma — ideas held loosely and tentatively.
Paradigm Assessment Schemata (Part 2)
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A similar chilly pragmatism is at work in those homeowners now using the courts to remain in a house they defaulted on months or years ago.
House Afire
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On Europe, the UK Independence Party has apparently sunk this strategy because it shows that only the Tories are the sensible pragmatists.
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Bleached conditionals probably tell us something about the semantics or the pragmatics of conditionals, though I have never been able to put my finger on exactly what.
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The people of the new century found pragmatism a heady wine.
The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
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In this chapter, we illustrated such pragmatic influences on processing by discussing context effects.
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In 1913, Charles Sprague wrote that ‘the balance sheet may be considered as the groundwork of all accountancy, the origin and the terminus of every account’.
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Now it seems they weren't the only innocents abroad in Prague in the late '80s, early 90s.
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She does not often provide explicit details about how such a " philosophical pragmatism " might benefit feminism.
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In these circumstances the underwriter would take a pragmatic approach.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although a landed gentleman and a locally venerated "pir," or Sufi saint (an inherited mantle), Fahim is a totally secular, moderate, pragmatic social democrat as well as a mystic poet.
Pakistan’s New Prime Minister?
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From the perspective of semantic conversion, this paper classifies the types of lexical conversion and analyzes its pragmatic and rhetoric significance.
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But practical experience fosters pragmatism and adaptation and there are many agile teams working with offshore and nearshore suppliers.
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Buyers will do well to take pragmatic view.
Times, Sunday Times
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On his return to Prague he calmly dropped a political bombshell.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am a pragmatic person, although I do have a romantic streak, and there are practical advantages to being wed.
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On the next morning, which was cold and drizzly, a "pragmatical" drummer went out from the nearer trench, beating his drum for a parley, lest his person should be dismissed without ceremony to the hungry kites.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)
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That was one of the very worst periods, when the Prague Spring was a memory that had almost been obliterated by
Propeller Most Popular Stories
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Conscience prevailing, he was received at Douai, then sent from Rome by the Jesuits to Bohemia to serve his novitiate, before being reordained in Prague.
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To a large extent Jordan's success was due to the pragmatism and political realism of King Abdullah.
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Furthermore, they generate the same pragmatic implicatures.
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For some reason, it had ended up out of sequence among the Prague photographs.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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“Dives Pragmaticus”: simnels, buns, cakes, biscuits, comfits, caraways, and cracknels: and this is the first occurrence of the bun that I have hitherto been able to detect.
Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine
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Even the people defending voting for the Democrats on this turn of the wheel defend it as 'pragmatic', as though choosing to be stabbed in the gut is the pragmatic alternative to choosing to be shot in the head.
Lee Stranahan: Why The Democrats Deserve To Lose
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Prague Castle has had an orangery since the middle of the fifteenth century.
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To achieve electoral success, pragmatic parties might shift their position or expand the range of viewpoints they encompass.
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I know I am recommending a pragmatic rather than a principled stand, but that is what national interest and foreign policy is all about.
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Cultural heritage sites, from medieval castles to irreplaceable works of art, were under threat in the 800-year-old Czech capital Prague and the German city of Dresden, while tourist areas were sealed off and sandbagged.
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One of the key figures was Yitzhak Unna, a skilled, pragmatic and two-fisted Israeli diplomat who became counsel general in Johannesburg in 1969 and was later promoted to ambassador.
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She's being pragmatic about the need to sell her house but she's using it as an opportunity to make a fresh start.
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Pragmatists try to coalesce the quest for truth and the quest for justification by trotting out what Williams labels ‘the indistinguishability argument’.
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Literariness was not merely the quality that distinguished poetics from pragmatics, it was the guarantee and promise of linguistic richness, of polysemy.
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But by Thursday morning a note of pragmatism had crept in.
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Pearson was playing political hardball, using a pragmatic strategy designed to prise extra resources out of a conservative electorate and its government.
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Would not a semantically empty text, keeping only the pragmatic skeleton of a conventional letter, aptly embody the artificiality of such letters?
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While one can recognize the pragmatic aspects of rejecting a religious exemption, including the likelihood of every pothead in America claiming Rastafari observance, this still should trouble us that a religious practice can be prohibited even when practitioners are not hurting themselves or one another.
Frank Fredericks: Protecting Pastafarians: When Does Religious Freedom Become Ridiculous?
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WHITEHALL -- Robert Sprague scored a game-high 21 points to lead the Cardinals past Whitehall.
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In the light of this we briefly consider rules and laissez-faire approaches to mergers as alternatives to that of pragmatic cost-benefit.
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Discs (or Pentacles) are the pragmatic suit. Sometimes people see them as plodding and a bit slow, but this is unjust.
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Of course, such pragmatic compromises left many people deeply dissatisfied.
Ambassadors: From Ancient Greece to the Nation State
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Her adorable job would work as a counterpoint to his pragmatic one and she would teach him to loosen up and enjoy life.
Times, Sunday Times
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He soon diluted his rousing speeches to become more pragmatic, a move that garnered a broader support platform that enabled him to take 61 per cent of the vote in last October's presidential elections.
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Such proceedings are confidential and, in response to misgivings, the process has been defended both as historically very successful and as a triumph of pragmatism over principle.
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It is politically safer - yes, even pragmatic - to describe one's values as "commonsensical" or "middle of the road.
TPMCafe
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Many other details, from the staircase treads to the fixings, were also executed in plastic, while, for pragmatic reasons, the load-bearing structure was made of steel.
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But this was not just a piece of political pragmatism.
The Times Literary Supplement
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He was a practical man, a pragmatic builder of empire!
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On purely pragmatic grounds, it is very easy to arrange and to carry out.
How to Face Interviews
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The severe limiting of the category would be pragmatic as well in securing more adequate medical insurance coverage.
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Such 'pragmatically self-verifying' propositions seem too specialized to serve as models for foundational judgements generally.
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As British ministers deliberate how they will vote in the Security Council, they are confronted with the choice between what is morally right – supporting a Palestinian state – and hypocrisy justified in the name of pragmatism.
A Palestinian state is a moral right | Observer editorial
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The study is devoted to two aspects of irony: the pragma-linguistic forms and pragmatic strategies in irony realization (or the pragma-linguistic cues for irony), and the pragmatic functions of irony.
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In my completely pragmatic opinion, the ability to intercross in captivity can be informative, but is just not meaningful enough or decisive, and certainly not a feasible way to attribute species status.
How many species? - The Panda's Thumb
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Human beings construct their politics in terms of pragmatic, expediential goals.
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As a citizen and voter, I expect a minimum level of common sense and pragmatism from the people elected to represent me.
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When two weeks later Churchill urged Eisenhower to speed his advance into Czechoslovakia in order to occupy Prague, Marshall vetoed the proposal.
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He made as much clear in a letter, dashed off in anger after a critic had dared read his "Glagolitic Mass," first performed at the same concert in Prague as the Sinfonietta, as a sign that Janáček was finally becoming pious in his old age.
Fanfares in the Face of Fascism
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Firstly we think 'pragmatically', deploy flat ontological analyses as a mere technological appendage to serve pre-existing political vectors, but this seems to be somewhat paradoxical for it entails a hidden claim that the ontological has no baring upon the political-but this indicates the technological potentials of the philosophy are null and void.
Larval Subjects .
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It is a pragmatic solution, rather than a wholesome one, but at least we know where we stand.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was nationalism, quintessence of Chinese culture and pragmatistic thought that led him to the idea of calendar reform.
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The passing away of Basu - India's longest-serving chief minister whose unbroken 23-year-old rule of a Left Front coalition in West Bengal state is a history in itself - is seen as a blow to the communist movement in India, wilting under fragile unity, political "foolhardiness" and lack of pragmatic icons.
INTER PRESS SERVICE
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The council has operated much more effectively since pragmatism replaced political dogma.
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The position Professor Fodor is attacking, which associates reality with true belief, sounds like idealism, not pragmatism.
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This pragmatism continues to inform Republicanism today, giving it the debt-laden, welfarist character Sullivan rails against.
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In Brazil, the businessmen get together and work out the most pragmatic solution.
Times, Sunday Times
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What pragmatic principles govern lexical acquisition?
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In a similar vein, it has been questioned that pragmatic phenomenalism manages to account for the difference between mere accordance with these rules and
The Normativity of Meaning and Content
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It promised ruthless pragmatism about means, but has become dogmatic in its advocacy of the private sector.
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Porras found an astute ally in newly elected President Alvaro Arzu, a pragmatic businessman with an instinct for building consensus.
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The Japanese company Kokoro has been terrifying audiences from Paris to Prague with its exhibit of "animatronic," or robotic, dinosaurs that grunt, move and squeal.
All The World Loves A Dinosaur
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But his allies insist he is an instinctive Eurosceptic who is simply taking a pragmatic approach.
Times, Sunday Times
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Scott definitions: "poikilia = metaph: cunning; pleonexia = a disposition to take more than one's share; polupragmosunê = meddling.
Plato and Platonism
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It was something altogether more pragmatic than that - a worry that the party might be split.
Times, Sunday Times
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Similarly, whether or not legal formalism is metaphysically correct, there are pragmatic arguments in its favor, ably put forth by Prof. Tamanaha.
Balkinization
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But some pragmatic strategists fear that his voting record in Congress may be a bit too liberal.
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To analyse language and to define language disorders most linguists divide language into four domains: phonology, grammar, semantics, and pragmatics.
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary 'Machiavellianism' is "the employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct", but as the quote above from 'The Prince' shows Machiavelli was also a pragmatic realist.
ZDNet News - News Page One
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In specific trades, such as jitney services, government officials have created relatively pragmatic licensing requirements that help to foster growth and opportunity.
Chron.com Chronicle
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The dominant philosophy of statecraft has become a form of pragmatic meliorism with markets and Western democratic institutions as the chosen means for improving our lives.
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He then embarked upon a year in Prague, where his mother's ambassadorial connections secured a year-long internship as a trainee diplomat with the European Commission.
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Williams took a more pragmatic approach to management problems.
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The Emperor Leopold stayed in Prague in 1680-1 during a plague epidemic in Vienna.
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She preferred not to carry a heavy backpack, and at times she pragmatically let men haul it for her.
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All those things require a degree of flexibility and pragmatism that didn't use to exist.
Times, Sunday Times
