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"It's better for all of us that mainstream conservatives go to parliament, people who are not extremist but pragmatic and moderate," according to the influential newspaper editor Amir Mohebian, who is emerging as the face of Iranian "compassionate conservatism."
It will be the task of Ayatollah Khamenei to rein in conservative ideologues and make sure that pragmatic conservatism prevails.
And, with fewer than a thousand French citizens still living in Mali, even its pragmatic interest is relatively slight.
Instead, the West adopted a pragmatic approach, shunning trade sanctions and helping to integrate China into the global economy and international institutions through the liberalizing influence of foreign investment and trade.
If Chile's rightist political parties want to capitalize on Mr. Lavin's popularity, they must show that they have moved away from their bedrock conservative ideology and have become pragmatic, modern, and issue oriented.
Second, breakthroughs are typically driven by pragmatic technical efforts to disrupt the status quo.
To be sure, where nuclear proliferation issues are concerned, the US has a history of staking out a maximalist position publicly, but being more pragmatic in closed-door negotiations.
Rather than allowing itself to be harmed by other countries’ problematic policies, China must work to create its own demand by making full use of its capacity for policy experimentation, long-term planning, and pragmatic decision-making.
In a series of speeches starting with his famous commencement address at American University in Washington, DC, Kennedy built a campaign for peace on a combination of vision and pragmatic action, focusing on a treaty to end nuclear tests.
In order to help Central American farmers tackle this challenge, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has partnered with two global coffee companies – Starbucks and ECOM – as well as other multilateral agencies and donors to devise a pragmatic, business-based solution.
It has had to deal with a widespread and understandable loss of confidence in elites – academics, policy analysts, Wall Street, business leaders, regulators, and politicians – which makes implementing pragmatic, centrist policies more difficult.
But Obama needs to take the lead in redirecting a highly polarized political environment engaged in a debate about the appropriate role and size of government toward a more pragmatic, results-oriented agenda.
Their own development experience makes countries like China, India, and Brazil resistant to market fundamentalism and natural advocates for institutional diversity and pragmatic experimentation.
But when it came to national government, ideological socialists were swiftly shunted aside to make way for more pragmatic operators.
Here the Finns, who chair the EU right now, have taken an initiative to implement a pragmatic solution that takes into consideration both sides in the conflict.
Some will view this as pragmatic, reflecting the difficulty of getting agreement with 192 UN member states.
Imagination, vision, and pragmatic perseverance will be necessary.
Europe does not need a debate between austerity and growth; it needs to be pragmatic.
And a Kurdish state has a real chance of thriving: an independent Kurdistan could manage to combine natural-resource wealth with a tradition of stable and pragmatic governance, thereby creating a sustainable democracy.
The Right Stuff in Foreign PolicyCAMBRIDGE – Some critics complain that US President Barack Obama campaigned on inspirational rhetoric and an ambition to “bend the arc of history,” but then turned out to be a transactional and pragmatic leader once in office.
Our third test is a matter of pragmatic principle.
We must honor our commitments under the Millennium Development Goals as a pragmatic as well as a moral responsibility.
Even progressive governments feel more comfortable today with pragmatic alternatives and less ideological agendas.
Convincing oneself that a decision is purely pragmatic, in order to avoid knotty ethical questions, is not an option.
Bacon’s pragmatic objective of using a scientific understanding of natural causes to “effect all things possible” – what is now called innovation – was science’s original promise to society, and formed the core of the Age of Enlightenment.
Even though no African countries voiced their support in Vienna for harm reduction, African leaders should take heed of those countries with pragmatic and humane drug policies.
After Khomeini’s death in 1989, the pragmatic Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani became President, followed by the reform-minded Mohammad Khatami.
Previous demands for pragmatic reforms have escalated into pressure for the wholesale transformation – or even total destruction – of the global framework of multilateral institutions.
The pragmatic “lesson” remains unlearned because those who take this view perceive a different lesson.
After just one year in office, the man who had promised transformational leadership became a “transactional” leader – pragmatic to a fault.
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