The legacy of a pragmatic approach to welfare

Using the data of SU-HSU enterprises surveys and internal statistics of KPMG company the paper provides a non-conventional view on three economic problems which have recently been in the center of expert discussions in Russia: competitiveness of firms, corruption in the government and level of taxation. The paper argues the necessity of pragmatic approach to economic phenomena, especially under conditions of high uncertainty caused by the increasing global financial crisis.

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Politics and Ideology: Lord Moyne, Palestine and Zionism 1939–1944

Britain and the World ◽

10.3366/brw.2017.0273 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 155-169

Author(s):

Ronen Yitzhak

Keyword(s):

Prime Minister ◽

White Paper ◽

Second World War ◽

Political Orientation ◽

Jewish State ◽

World War ◽

Pragmatic Approach ◽

Jewish Immigration ◽

Set Up ◽

Second World

This article deals with Lord Moyne's policy towards the Zionists. It refutes the claim that Lord Moyne was anti-Zionist in his political orientation and in his activities and shows that his positions did not differ from those of other British senior officials at the time. His attitude toward Jewish immigration to Palestine and toward the establishment of a Jewish Brigade during the Second World War was indeed negative. This was not due to anti-Zionist policy, however, but to British strategy that supported the White Paper of 1939 and moved closer to the Arabs during the War. While serving in the British Cabinet, Lord Moyne displayed apolitically pragmatic approach and remained loyal to Prime Minister Churchill. He therefore supported the establishment of a Jewish Brigade and the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine in the secret committee that Churchill set up in 1944. Unaware of his new positions, the Zionists assassinated him in November 1944. The murder of Lord Moyne affected Churchill, leading him to reject the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.

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‘The Clach’: Alexander Mackenzie and the Land Question in the Late-Nineteenth Century Highlands and Islands

Northern Scotland ◽

10.3366/nor.2017.0127 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 68-86 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ben Thomas

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Land Reform ◽

Reform Movement ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

Pragmatic Approach ◽

Early Experiences ◽

Late Nineteenth ◽

Land Question

This article uses the career and writings of the Highland land reformer Alexander Mackenzie, to shed new light on the evolution of Highland land reform in the years leading up to the Crofters' Act of 1886. Mackenzie's output as a writer and journalist shows that his early experiences of living and working on the land are vital to understanding his approach to the land question, and led him to focus not on abstract or ideal principles but on building popular consensus to secure the most pressing reforms. This moderate and pragmatic approach was not universally popular though, especially among Mackenzie's more radical reformist contemporaries. The tensions these disagreements created are symptomatic of the problems that beset the ‘Crofting Community’ in the 1880s and ‘90s: problems that would eventually cause the land reform movement to split. Nevertheless, Mackenzie's influence on the Crofters’ War was huge, and deserves greater scholarly recognition.

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Support for adopting a pragmatic approach to adrenal incidentalomas

Endocrine Abstracts ◽

10.1530/endoabs.65.p19 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Yen Theen Lim ◽

Thomas Sulkin ◽

Duncan Browne

Keyword(s):

Adrenal Incidentalomas ◽

Pragmatic Approach

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Forecasting Demand for Industrial Land: A Pragmatic Approach

10.15396/eres1998_187 ◽

1998 ◽

Keyword(s):

Pragmatic Approach ◽

Industrial Land

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Professional Educational Discourse In Russia: A Socio-Pragmatic Approach

10.15405/epsbs.2020.12.02.84 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Vladimir I. Karasik

Keyword(s):

Pragmatic Approach ◽

Educational Discourse

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cognitive-pragmatic account of the English imperative-conditional construction

East Asian Pragmatics ◽

10.1558/eap.v1i2.29484 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 251-269

Author(s):

Keding Zhang

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Linguistics ◽

Processing Unit ◽

Pragmatic Approach ◽

The Third ◽

Pragmatic Enrichment ◽

Symbolic Structure ◽

Speaker Intentions ◽

Interactive Relationship ◽

Pragmatic Account ◽

Everyday Communication

The imperative-conditional construction (ICC) in English is a type of construction which consists of an ordinary imperative clause and an ordinary declarative clause connected by the connective and or or. This article deals with the speaker intentions of ICCs and their motivations from a cognitive-pragmatic approach. Based on the concept of construction in cognitive linguistics, an ICC can be called a complex symbolic structure which, though composed of two components, should be regarded as a single pragmatic processing unit. It is demonstrated that, in everyday communication, the ICC can usually convey three kinds of speaker intentions: a prohibitive intention, an inducing/forcing intention, and an advisory intention. The first refers to the intention of the speaker to prohibit the hearer from carrying out the act described by the imperative. The second is the intention of the speaker to induce or force the hearer to bring about the act described by the imperative. The third refers to the intention of the speaker to advise the hearer to carry out the act described by the imperative. These speaker intentions are highly motivated. The motivations include the constructional context, the conditional relation between the imperative and the declarative, the directive force of the imperative, the pragmatic enrichment of the declarative, and the complementary and interactive relationship between the imperative and declarative clauses, among which the constructional context serves as an overall motivation, and the rest may be seen as specific motivations.

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