But Americans of the future won't remember the pragmatic arguments for caving in to the administration.

First, the pragmatic argument is far from settled-it's not clear that torture works.

Murray's next strategy is to try a series of more pragmatic arguments against government action.

That sounds more like a pragmatic argument than a clarion call for nonviolence.

This is a pragmatic argument about social cohesion.

And underlying all of this is the more pragmatic argument, which Nadal didn't actually make, but everyone else surely will.

Even so, a pragmatic argument has survived: Don't let the contras go down the drain for nothing.

This a very English and pragmatic argument for the necessity of a central authority in the Church.

This may be the philosophical equivalent of the more pragmatic arguments made by some scientists.

That is a pragmatic argument for limiting the pragmatic interpretation of our Constitution.