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Generally, individuals are pragmatic and countries will welcome Chinese tourists due to their spending power, it will take time for international tourism to get going, but it will come rushing back, when it happens. – Steve Saxon	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I’m not paid to say that. I’m paid to say, ‘fate and feel.’ I mean, I get it. Look, I mean I could be the cheerleader. I’m also pragmatic. You feel it. – Gavin Newsom	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Because of inflation and issues of crime and also other problems that we’re having just in our quality of life, I think that voters are going to be a lot more pragmatic about how they’re doing now as to how they were doing previously, than necessarily who supports who. – David Paterson	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Finland's default ideology has been one of survival. In the past 100 years we have become a strong, sovereign country with high standards of living. We have had to sacrifice land in order to maintain peace, it is therefore vitally important that our way of life survives, whether that is by pragmatic diplomacy or taking a harder stance against our greatest threat. – Charly Salonius-Pasternak	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In an ideal world we want to cooperate with Russia, which we can not escape being our geographical neighbor. But we also know from history that the greatest realistic threat to our national security is Russia. Over time, the reality that Russia is willing to create greater chaos in our region has become even clearer, so joining NATO becomes the pragmatic option. – Alexander Stubb	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Finnish security has always been based on two concepts : first geography and history ; second idealism and realism, in an ideal world we want to cooperate with Russia, which we can not escape being our geographical neighbor. But we also know from history that the greatest realistic threat to our national security is Russia. Over time, the reality that Russia is willing to create greater chaos in our region has become even clearer, so joining NATO becomes the pragmatic option. – Alexander Stubb	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The difference between us and other communities is that we have a point of reference. We know what Venezuela and Cuba and Nicaragua and Ecuador and Peru and Argentina and Chile look like. We know Mexico. We know, so it's very easy to compare, my parents fled socialism, and anything that has that word attached to it, whether its democratic socialism or pragmatic socialism, that's all the theory. It's not the practice. We have experienced the practice. We have the wounds, and we have the whips on our backs. We know. We know what socialism means. – Maria Salazar	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The key challenge for China is going to be, with Xi in charge for a decade, are course corrections going to be possible ? and unfortunately, the historical record there is that absolute power does not usually lead to a more pragmatic, flexible attitude. – Craig Singleton	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The conclusion then was very simple, barbados had reached the stage of maturity in its political evolution where what ought to have been part and parcel of the movement to independence was not for pragmatic reasons. Fifty-five years later this failure is rectified by a prime minister who is determined to complete the process of nation-building which has obviously stalled for the last four decades or so. – Cynthia Barrow-Giles	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It is a consistent mistake of American foreign policy that we project our own pragmatic reasonableness onto others and assume that they don't mean what they say. – Tom Malinowski	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This is an encouraging move. Certainly, it doesn't satisfy every concern with policing consent decrees, but an incremental move in the right direction, under Obama admin these consent decrees ballooned in scope exponentially and do a much better job at adding to monitors' personal wealth than anything else. They MUST be significantly more narrow and pragmatic to have any hope of realizing their stated goal. – Jason Johnson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They are bringing to the party different means of achieving the whole, he has the experience of knowing where the institution sits and seeing it evolve. The duchess brings this pragmatic awareness of what it’s like to be from a decent, down-to-earth family. – Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The Islamic State’s attack likely had multiple objectives, including disrupting Charles Thorson at the airport and embarrassing The Taliban as The Taliban tries to distance The Taliban from terrorist groups and portray The Taliban as being capable of providing security throughout the country, the Islamic State attack also probably serves longer-term objectives of driving recruitment and reinvigorating the Islamic State’s image within the global jihadist community amid the group’s downfall in Iraq and Syria, Thorson added. ISIS-K isestimated to have between 2,000 and 3,000 fighters operating in Afghanistan and its ranks swelled with more fighters after prisoners were released when the Afghan government collapsed. Charles Thorson MILITARY ESCAPE FROM AFGHANISTAN : AIR FORCE CREWS DESCRIBE ‘ APOCALYPTIC ’ FINAL SCENES A main gripe of ISIS-K with The Taliban is the deal the group negotiated with United States in Doha. ISIS-K considers the The Taliban traitors for entering into talks with the United States and announced The Taliban intentions to undermine the deal by launching a war against the The Taliban and the U.S.-backed Afghan government. While The Taliban simultaneously waged an insurgency campaign against Afghan forces and negotiated with the U.S., ISIS-K conducted deadly terror attacks on Afghan civilians, an attempt to discredit the The Taliban and drive-up recruitment. The attack from ISIS-K also highlights the internal fissures within The Taliban that will likely grow more profound as The Taliban enter the governing phase of their takeover. The Taliban have, at least rhetorically, struck a more moderate and pragmatic tone from their previous iteration in power 20 years ago. While leadership and spokespersons have remained mild in tone, the The Taliban rank and file are filled with more extremist factions that will be more attracted to the radicalism that ISIS-K espouses. According to Thorson, such a structure is vulnerable to infiltration by more extreme organizations like The Islamic State. Although the The Taliban and Islamic State are enemies, defections from one group to another suggest there may be pockets of sympathy within each group for the other. After all, this is how ISIS-Kformed in 2015, when disaffected remnants of the Pakistani The Taliban and other Jihadist groups split and pledged allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The rupture led to a declaration of war on both sides. – Charles Thorson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Although Beijing is pragmatic about the power realities in Afghanistan, it has always been uncomfortable with the Taliban's ideological agenda, the Chinese government fears the inspirational effect of their success in Afghanistan for militancy across the region, including the Pakistani Taliban. – Andrew Small	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The pandemic had resulted in him being allowed to play more of the well-established role of the premier in running the economy, something from which he was side-tracked most of the time in the Xi era, he saw how the economic impact of Covid-19 would require a pragmatic and a more emphatic approach, hence allowing, even encouraging, street vending for those laid off as a result of the pandemic. – Steve Tsang	Found on CNN 3 years ago
This is a great result for Louisiana's voters and election workers, especially those most susceptible to the COVID-19 virus, our plan serves as a pragmatic and temporary response to the COVID-19 pandemic ravaging our nation. – Kyle Ardoin	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The party's appeal is based on Salvini's charismatic leadership but also on a reputation for pragmatic and effective government at local level, that has been damaged. – Lorenzo Pregliasco	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I do think it's time for a woman in the White House, i see Iowa Democratic Party in this process in danger of a real bifurcation and I don't think that we can go into this fight split apart. And I think that Elizabeth Warren is uniquely situated to pull both parts of Iowa Democratic Party together. ... Elizabeth Warren is pragmatic, and at the same time Elizabeth Warren's idealistic. – Bob Dvorsky	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Iowa Democrats want to support a leader with a vision for our country's future, and a Rhodes Scholar mayor is exactly what we need -- but Cory Booker is the only one with a record of delivering real change both in Washington and in Cory Booker own community, our party needs to rally around a candidate with a progressive platform and a pragmatic, results-oriented outlook in order to beat Donald Trump. Cory Booker exemplifies those qualities better than any other candidate, whether they're a fellow Rhodes Scholar mayor or not. – United We Win spokesperson	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Older black voters tend to be more pragmatic, wanting to protect gains that have been realized to date, younger voters tend to be more ideological and open to disruption and are less risk-averse. – Theodore Johnson	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
To suggest Senator Collins has changed is laughable. Senator Collins is constantly being criticized by extremists on the far left and the far right, yet Senator Collins has never wavered, republicans, Democrats, and Independents are yearning for pragmatic, common sense leadership, and that's what Senator Collins has always, and will continue to, bring to the table. – Kevin Kelley	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Senator Warren believes that by pursuing international economic policies that benefit American workers instead of an elite few and using diplomacy to amplify strong yet pragmatic security policies, we can achieve a foreign policy for all. – Alexis Krieg	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I think there was a real conversation tonight about approach, there was an elevated effort to highlight the pragmatic versus the progressive. – Antjuan Seawright	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
She's trafficking in a kind of utopianism that we don't really need right now, we need really good, pragmatic, responsible leaders who evaluate the world as it is. – Joe Gorton	Found on CNN 4 years ago

Generally, individuals are pragmatic and countries will welcome Chinese tourists due to their spending power, it will take time for international tourism to get going, but it will come rushing back, when it happens.

– Steve Saxon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m not paid to say that. I’m paid to say, ‘fate and feel.’ I mean, I get it. Look, I mean I could be the cheerleader. I’m also pragmatic. You feel it.

– Gavin Newsom

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Because of inflation and issues of crime and also other problems that we’re having just in our quality of life, I think that voters are going to be a lot more pragmatic about how they’re doing now as to how they were doing previously, than necessarily who supports who.

– David Paterson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Finland's default ideology has been one of survival. In the past 100 years we have become a strong, sovereign country with high standards of living. We have had to sacrifice land in order to maintain peace, it is therefore vitally important that our way of life survives, whether that is by pragmatic diplomacy or taking a harder stance against our greatest threat.

– Charly Salonius-Pasternak

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In an ideal world we want to cooperate with Russia, which we can not escape being our geographical neighbor. But we also know from history that the greatest realistic threat to our national security is Russia. Over time, the reality that Russia is willing to create greater chaos in our region has become even clearer, so joining NATO becomes the pragmatic option.

– Alexander Stubb

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Finnish security has always been based on two concepts : first geography and history ; second idealism and realism, in an ideal world we want to cooperate with Russia, which we can not escape being our geographical neighbor. But we also know from history that the greatest realistic threat to our national security is Russia. Over time, the reality that Russia is willing to create greater chaos in our region has become even clearer, so joining NATO becomes the pragmatic option.

– Alexander Stubb

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The difference between us and other communities is that we have a point of reference. We know what Venezuela and Cuba and Nicaragua and Ecuador and Peru and Argentina and Chile look like. We know Mexico. We know, so it's very easy to compare, my parents fled socialism, and anything that has that word attached to it, whether its democratic socialism or pragmatic socialism, that's all the theory. It's not the practice. We have experienced the practice. We have the wounds, and we have the whips on our backs. We know. We know what socialism means.

– Maria Salazar

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The key challenge for China is going to be, with Xi in charge for a decade, are course corrections going to be possible ? and unfortunately, the historical record there is that absolute power does not usually lead to a more pragmatic, flexible attitude.

– Craig Singleton

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The conclusion then was very simple, barbados had reached the stage of maturity in its political evolution where what ought to have been part and parcel of the movement to independence was not for pragmatic reasons. Fifty-five years later this failure is rectified by a prime minister who is determined to complete the process of nation-building which has obviously stalled for the last four decades or so.

– Cynthia Barrow-Giles

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is a consistent mistake of American foreign policy that we project our own pragmatic reasonableness onto others and assume that they don't mean what they say.

– Tom Malinowski

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is an encouraging move. Certainly, it doesn't satisfy every concern with policing consent decrees, but an incremental move in the right direction, under Obama admin these consent decrees ballooned in scope exponentially and do a much better job at adding to monitors' personal wealth than anything else. They MUST be significantly more narrow and pragmatic to have any hope of realizing their stated goal.

– Jason Johnson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They are bringing to the party different means of achieving the whole, he has the experience of knowing where the institution sits and seeing it evolve. The duchess brings this pragmatic awareness of what it’s like to be from a decent, down-to-earth family.

– Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Islamic State’s attack likely had multiple objectives, including disrupting Charles Thorson at the airport and embarrassing The Taliban as The Taliban tries to distance The Taliban from terrorist groups and portray The Taliban as being capable of providing security throughout the country, the Islamic State attack also probably serves longer-term objectives of driving recruitment and reinvigorating the Islamic State’s image within the global jihadist community amid the group’s downfall in Iraq and Syria, Thorson added. ISIS-K isestimated to have between 2,000 and 3,000 fighters operating in Afghanistan and its ranks swelled with more fighters after prisoners were released when the Afghan government collapsed. Charles Thorson MILITARY ESCAPE FROM AFGHANISTAN : AIR FORCE CREWS DESCRIBE ‘ APOCALYPTIC ’ FINAL SCENES A main gripe of ISIS-K with The Taliban is the deal the group negotiated with United States in Doha. ISIS-K considers the The Taliban traitors for entering into talks with the United States and announced The Taliban intentions to undermine the deal by launching a war against the The Taliban and the U.S.-backed Afghan government. While The Taliban simultaneously waged an insurgency campaign against Afghan forces and negotiated with the U.S., ISIS-K conducted deadly terror attacks on Afghan civilians, an attempt to discredit the The Taliban and drive-up recruitment. The attack from ISIS-K also highlights the internal fissures within The Taliban that will likely grow more profound as The Taliban enter the governing phase of their takeover. The Taliban have, at least rhetorically, struck a more moderate and pragmatic tone from their previous iteration in power 20 years ago. While leadership and spokespersons have remained mild in tone, the The Taliban rank and file are filled with more extremist factions that will be more attracted to the radicalism that ISIS-K espouses. According to Thorson, such a structure is vulnerable to infiltration by more extreme organizations like The Islamic State. Although the The Taliban and Islamic State are enemies, defections from one group to another suggest there may be pockets of sympathy within each group for the other. After all, this is how ISIS-Kformed in 2015, when disaffected remnants of the Pakistani The Taliban and other Jihadist groups split and pledged allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The rupture led to a declaration of war on both sides.

– Charles Thorson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Although Beijing is pragmatic about the power realities in Afghanistan, it has always been uncomfortable with the Taliban's ideological agenda, the Chinese government fears the inspirational effect of their success in Afghanistan for militancy across the region, including the Pakistani Taliban.

– Andrew Small

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The pandemic had resulted in him being allowed to play more of the well-established role of the premier in running the economy, something from which he was side-tracked most of the time in the Xi era, he saw how the economic impact of Covid-19 would require a pragmatic and a more emphatic approach, hence allowing, even encouraging, street vending for those laid off as a result of the pandemic.

– Steve Tsang

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This is a great result for Louisiana's voters and election workers, especially those most susceptible to the COVID-19 virus, our plan serves as a pragmatic and temporary response to the COVID-19 pandemic ravaging our nation.

– Kyle Ardoin

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The party's appeal is based on Salvini's charismatic leadership but also on a reputation for pragmatic and effective government at local level, that has been damaged.

– Lorenzo Pregliasco

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I do think it's time for a woman in the White House, i see Iowa Democratic Party in this process in danger of a real bifurcation and I don't think that we can go into this fight split apart. And I think that Elizabeth Warren is uniquely situated to pull both parts of Iowa Democratic Party together. ... Elizabeth Warren is pragmatic, and at the same time Elizabeth Warren's idealistic.

– Bob Dvorsky

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Iowa Democrats want to support a leader with a vision for our country's future, and a Rhodes Scholar mayor is exactly what we need -- but Cory Booker is the only one with a record of delivering real change both in Washington and in Cory Booker own community, our party needs to rally around a candidate with a progressive platform and a pragmatic, results-oriented outlook in order to beat Donald Trump. Cory Booker exemplifies those qualities better than any other candidate, whether they're a fellow Rhodes Scholar mayor or not.

– United We Win spokesperson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Older black voters tend to be more pragmatic, wanting to protect gains that have been realized to date, younger voters tend to be more ideological and open to disruption and are less risk-averse.

– Theodore Johnson

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

To suggest Senator Collins has changed is laughable. Senator Collins is constantly being criticized by extremists on the far left and the far right, yet Senator Collins has never wavered, republicans, Democrats, and Independents are yearning for pragmatic, common sense leadership, and that's what Senator Collins has always, and will continue to, bring to the table.

– Kevin Kelley

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Senator Warren believes that by pursuing international economic policies that benefit American workers instead of an elite few and using diplomacy to amplify strong yet pragmatic security policies, we can achieve a foreign policy for all.

– Alexis Krieg

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I think there was a real conversation tonight about approach, there was an elevated effort to highlight the pragmatic versus the progressive.

– Antjuan Seawright

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

She's trafficking in a kind of utopianism that we don't really need right now, we need really good, pragmatic, responsible leaders who evaluate the world as it is.

– Joe Gorton

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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