This pragmatic move apparently bought El Salvador a fair amount of goodwill in Washington.

When he needed Mr. Baker to come back and run his campaign, he developed an ideological argument to justify a pragmatic move.

Edwin Gaustad wrote that this was a pragmatic political move aimed at stabilizing relations with the Indian tribes.

This pragmatic move allowed the local commanderies to have greater manpower and reduced redundancy in local administrations.

Faubus rejected his father's radicalism for the more mainline New Deal, a pragmatic move.

In a shrewd pragmatic move, he did not ally with the latter in the North because the League disliked them.

Every practical, pragmatic move must be couched as idealistic.

In a pragmatic move a treaty was concluded with Mahmud.

A pragmatic move, maybe, but it harbors the seeds of Fascism ready to spring anew at any opportunity.

While that decision may be a pragmatic move, it must not turn into a wholesale retreat from efforts to curb Microsoft's monopolistic practices.