9 sentences with 'pragmatic'
Example sentences and phrases with the word pragmatic and other words derived from it.
• « Likewise, a major theme of humanism was pragmatic indifference to gods and fate - one Greek philosopher, Xenophanes, dismissed the very idea of human-like gods intervening in everyday life. »
• « He sent missionaries to lands outside the kingdoms to spread Christianity, both out of a genuine desire to save souls and a pragmatic desire to see greater Church influence. »
• « In the 16th century, Henry's line, the Tudors, established an increasingly powerful English state, based largely on a pragmatic alliance between the royal government and the nobility, the landed class that wielded most of the political power at the local level. »
• « In fact, in the early modern period, the emperor was an elected office. That phenomenon began in 1356 when a pragmatic emperor, Charles IV, issued the Golden Bull, which created a system whereby future emperors would be elected by their most powerful subjects. »
• « Sultan Selim was equal parts ambitious and pragmatic and proved to be a skilful politician and an effective military commander. »
• « While some pragmatic alliances between Protestant groups would eventually arise due to persecution or war, for the most part each Protestant denomination claimed to have exclusive access to religious truth, regarding all others as hopelessly ignorant and, indeed, doomed to hell. »
• « He was finally assassinated (after 18 previous attempts) in 1610 by a Catholic fanatic, but with his death the pragmatic need for toleration was accepted even by most French Catholics. »
• « Instead, there was a kind of reluctant and pragmatic religious toleration that took root across Europe, the same kind of toleration that had emerged in France half a century earlier at the conclusion of the French Wars of Religion. »
• « A more pragmatic conservative take was exemplified by a British lord, Edmund Burke. He argued that, given the complexity and fragility of the social fabric, only the strength of tradition could prevent political chaos. »