It is a battle between views I would describe as pluralist versus technocratic. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Lux: Pluralists vs. Technocrats] Reference
Are democratic or "pluralist" states naturally more responsive to environmental problems, and authoritarian ones inherently less so?. From Wordnik.com. [Resources under regimes] Reference
I sometimes surprise people who expect me to categorize myself as a "pluralist", but so far I'm sticking with the label "inclusivist". From Wordnik.com. [Other Religions in Sunday School] Reference
A natural law based system can accept a certain aboult of pluralism, but a "pluralist" system is simply unworkable under the Natural Law. From Wordnik.com. [Obama's "Humble Realism"???] Reference
A "pluralist," and to observe the sage precaution of not putting all one's eggs into one basket. From Wordnik.com. [The Unbearable Bassington] Reference
Women these gender-determined “pluralist” condition. From Wordnik.com. [Frontiers Yugoslavia Thirty Notwithstanding] Reference
Now in a pluralist democracy, that's seen as a healthy thing. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 3, 2007] Reference
Lebanon was to protect a pluralist country from a grasping neighbor. From Wordnik.com. [Simon Jenkins: A Trillion-Dollar Catastrophe. Yes, Iraq Was a Headline War] Reference
The pluralist strain in Zionist thinking has been crushed and bullied. From Wordnik.com. [Never Mind the Bollocks--Here Is Walt and Mearsheimer!] Reference
Only if it's an instruction to be an anti-pluralist paranoid totalitarian. From Wordnik.com. [Happy Hour Roundup] Reference
Yet in the end, isn't design diversity the best hope for a pluralist society?. From Wordnik.com. [A Certain Sense of Calm] Reference
Fortunately -- I'm a pluralist -- no single one of them is likely to prevail. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks At Fifth Millennium Evening At The White House] Reference
On show, the Labour party at its best - a respectful, modern pluralist party. From Wordnik.com. [Jon Cruddas's conference diary] Reference
Such a move could thwart U.S. hopes Iraq will emerge as a pluralist democracy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 17, 2005] Reference
So today, we have a pluralist media, which represents very different tendencies. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 20, 2009] Reference
We both want to see pluralist democracy in Cuba at the earliest possible moment. From Wordnik.com. [Press Conference With Clinton Bruton And Santer] Reference
Third, the AKP moved from a pluralist to a majoritarian understanding of democracy. From Wordnik.com. [The Dream of a New Turkey] Reference
It was formed in 1981 and seeks the establishment of a pluralist, secular republic. From Wordnik.com. [Iran's Uprising Prospects After February 11: Escalation or Decline?] Reference
Bangladeshis are a pluralist, freedom-loving, tolerant people of moderate persuasion. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: Wreaking Havoc] Reference
I think I would have been a cultural Zionist, as I'm a pluralist-global-village type now. From Wordnik.com. [Never Mind the Bollocks--Here Is Walt and Mearsheimer!] Reference
His latest book goes beyond economic theorizing to look at the pluralist heritage of India. From Wordnik.com. [Winning Argument] Reference
SESAY: What will it take to bring change, to bring a real open, pluralist democracy to Egypt?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2007] Reference
Ours is not a centralized tradition, and Islam's rich diversity is a legacy of our pluralist past. From Wordnik.com. [A Symposium: What Is Moderate Islam?] Reference
"He's a unifier, an open-minded moderate and a pluralist," says veteran politician Marzuki Darusman. From Wordnik.com. [Indonesia's Magic Man] Reference
The US will still stay one of the most pluralist of all countries, whatever happens in the election. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
I would certainly put myself in the pluralist quarter of the Labour party but it may be shrinking to 10%. From Wordnik.com. [Lib Dem conference fringe: is a Lib-Lab coalition possible?] Reference
To his argument that Islamic theology was in fact pluralist, Hirsi Ali did not have a conclusive rejoinder. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Our efforts to stabilize Iraq and sustain a pluralist government there have an important humanitarian purpose. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2007] Reference
This, readers were told, showed that the Republic of China was evolving rapidly into a "mature" pluralist state. From Wordnik.com. [The Unseen China] Reference
Here, at Bullgineville, the pluralist railroad-manager had his cabin and clearing, ox-engine house and warehouse. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862] Reference
But it did not answer the claim that there was a pluralist religious tradition on which the Islamic world could draw. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Rawlings, who is the head of state, was very much opposed to the very kind of multiparty pluralist system that we now have. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Africa Scholars] Reference
It calls for a "pluralist system, not democratic in a literal sense," says one senior diplomat who has been briefed on the plan. From Wordnik.com. [Powell Pulls Through] Reference
Here is a well-educated Muslim population, heterodox and pluralist by tradition and temperament, and desperate for genuine democracy. From Wordnik.com. [Why silence over Kashmir speaks volumes] Reference
Now, in a pluralist democracy, that's seen as a healthy thing, but when you're fighting a war, you want a clear and concise direction. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 3, 2007] Reference
Koïchiro Matsuura said a free, independent and pluralist media has an indispensable role to play in rooting out racism and xenophobia. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
Lebanon is a country of contradictions: a pluralist democracy, with a thriving café culture, and also a staging ground for Iran and Syria. From Wordnik.com. [May 2009 Table of Contents] Reference
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