With the end of the long persian New Year holiday, the pragmatic wing apparently reasserted control.
IT WAS an admission of cultural defeat; but then Hong Kong is nothing if not pragmatic about such things.
In recent months the trust is rumoured to have radically changed its view, taking a more pragmatic approach to Hershey's place in a consolidating global confectionery market.
Donald Tusk, Poland's prime minister, has tried to build a pragmatic relationship with the Kremlin despite widespread and vocal calls in Poland for him to cool ties with Moscow.
A simple and pragmatic graphics output package is introduced briefly in this paper which is capable to print the horizontal contour chart, vertical cross-section, vertical circulation or flux chart for the numerical model ou put on a simple line-printer.
I found him tough, smart, shrewd, very unsentimental, very pragmatic.
Han is pragmatic, some would say mercenary, and his personality often conflicts with Leia's idealism.
If you have millions of dollars and years to deliver then what pressure is there to be pragmatic?
In 2011, as in 1943, efforts to outlaw and punish the most horrific deeds need to be pragmatic, and well-adapted to local realities, as well as spectacular and utopian.
The speeches have been sober and pragmatic.
For years, China-ASEAN cooperation has been most pragmatic, most extensive and most fruitful.
He could also be supremely pragmatic, as in eventually accepting the idea of an independent Palestine and evacuating Israel's Gaza settlements.
In endorsing polygamy, these women, particularly those in remote rural areas without running water, may be less concerned with loneliness than with something more pragmatic: help with the chores.
In the following excerpt, James describes the pragmatic theory of truth.
The perlocutionary act of innuendo speech act indicates that innuendo speech act has a stronger pragmatic force and obvious later effects.
The practical and pragmatic gainsay the Utopian and transcendental.
The burgeoning influence of Qatar in the Arab world arouses admiration, suspicion and puzzlement. But its motives are mainly pragmatic.
Some grammatical rules of English connote much pragmatic information.
The Shabab has learnt from its mistakes in 2006, when it was overwhelmed in a few days by the Ethiopian army. It is now more pragmatic and more aggressive.
But the urgency of the threat, and the catastrophic consequences of even a single act of nuclear terrorism, demand an effort that is at once bold and pragmatic.
They were satisfied with this pragmatic sanction.
There is improvisation and it is the pragmatic aspect of England's game that has to be pondered.
On the other hand, we have the pragmatic, touchy feely, warm and fuzzy engineering types.
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