How To Use Expediency In A Sentence
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She had the kind of clear, clean progressive politics that came directly from the heart and the head: she didn't possess an ounce of guile or expediency, the latter sometimes miscalled pragmatism by those who favour power over principle.
Archive 2009-08-01
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Call me a moon-eyed dreamer: I still believe the work of the serious writer will be recognized for what it is, whether it takes place examples chosen only for clarity and expediency in Ambergris, or 351 West 52 St New York City Apt # D RIGHT NOW, dammit.
Evil Monkey on Fantasy
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Now, once again, the thin reed of refugee protection has fallen prey to the winds of political expediency.
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My concern is that the ministry is going to make a decision based on expediency and without considering the impact their decision will have on the environment.
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The reason for Beijing's lack of interest was most likely a simple matter of bad timing and political expediency.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have tried my best during my years of public service to keep that name untarnished and respected, unmarked by sorry compromises for expediency.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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And that is idealism: a belief that good can triumph over bad, that principle can defeat expediency.
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Resolved, that the committee on finance be instructed to enquire into the expediency of paying for clothing, & c. furnished to a portion of the militia of Roanoke when called out by the authorities, and the call countermanded before the said militia were mustered into service.
Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Session of 1861-62
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How does the state balance sympathy and the demands of expediency?
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This can only be based on grounds of political expediency, not national security.
Times, Sunday Times
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But he considers it wrong that rugby's heartlands are being ignored and substantial areas disenfranchised, purely for financial expediency.
Times, Sunday Times
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They do this because they think one should discuss questions about goodness, justice and expediency in this place which was founded by the man who made all these subjects his business.
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Avoiding the promotion of political and constitutional reform on the basis of short-term expediency is imperative.
Times, Sunday Times
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The reason for Beijing's lack of interest was most likely a simple matter of bad timing and political expediency.
Times, Sunday Times
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This was not for a war of national survival, but for political expediency.
Times, Sunday Times
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Also, and kind of ironically, you have to regard the theoretical McCain model of a politician as a straight shooting, straight talker, as a bad politician to support, since straight talking at the cost of political expediency is a bad thing.
Matthew Yglesias » Bygones
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That has an expediency a presidential speechwriter would get a medal for.
Times, Sunday Times
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I think this government operates on the basis of expediency, not of principle.
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I think that people can see the political expediency of the U-turn.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once Constitution stands in the way of natural justice then it must be rooted out and changed with vigorous expediency.
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It is both a needed reminder and a adept demonstration that watching courtship treated as a noble game is still quite rewarding even in times where romance is traded for expediency.
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Actions taken for reasons of political and economic expediency have been presented as if altruism were the sole motive.
The Chomsky Update - Linguistics and Politics
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The government has not provided such a plan, and looks as if it has no intention of doing so for reasons of political expediency.
Times, Sunday Times
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But others fear that it could cut corners in the name of economic expediency resulting in a degrading of justice.
Times, Sunday Times
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That creation can only be regarded as one of expediency and convenience.
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Tax plans born out of political ideology rather than economic expediency almost always end in failure.
Times, Sunday Times
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I suspect many, like me and my family, went because we cannot stomach the idea that we are being bounced into war for the sake of political expediency.
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Looking ahead, she added in one of her more baroque phrases that the Chinese “have faith, that, at the writing of peace, America and our gallant Allies will not be obtunded by the mirage of contingent reasons of expediency.”
The Last Empress
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Former President Fidel Ramos said Arroyo’s "ambiguousness" towards her population policy "has put mothers’ lives and health, together with their babies, at risk for the sake of political expediency and religious traditionalism.
Archive 2008-07-01
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We should not be surprised as this is a cold, calculating, hard-hearted Government, one that is wedded to expediency.
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They have an excellent sense of expediency and grasp of the details which enables them to make quick, effective decisions.
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The whole episode smacks of expediency and cowardice.
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It was difficult to strike the right balance between justice and expediency.
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I am keen that this will be based on evidence rather than political expediency.
Times, Sunday Times
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Damnation for a new party chief whose "only creed is expediency" from Simon Heffer?
Ed Miliband is ahead of the pack while pundits are stuck in Gridlock Gulch
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Does your position flow from concerns about political expediency (ie., gun control advocacy is bad for progressive politics)?
Matthew Yglesias » Requests We Can Believe In
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It was difficult to strike the right balance between justice and expediency.
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But localised flood prevention solutions often have implications for other areas and political expediency should not determine the solution.
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Expertise was sacrificed for the sake of political expediency, with unfortunate results.
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It is both a needed reminder and a adept demonstration that watching courtship treated as a noble game is still quite rewarding even in times where romance is traded for expediency.
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Teeming with the rich period details that make historical fiction so rewarding, Gullands dynamic and nuanced portrait of Louis notorious reign thrums with page-turning expediency and deliciously seductive machinations.
Mistress of the Sun by Sandra Gulland: Book summary
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Instead, public utterances are invariably dictated by self-interest, political expediency, and/or ideology.
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Fie upon thee! man needs should have some certain test set up to try his friends, some touchstone of their hearts, to know each friend whether he be true or false; all men should have two voices, one the voice of honesty, expediency's the other, so would honesty confute its knavish opposite, and then we could not be deceived.
Hippolytus
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This measure simply indicates the character of the opinions which were received at the time in Europe, as well as the strong consciousness on the part of the patriarch, and those who acted with him, of the expediency of throwing the voice and countenance of the Church into the scale alike against the tribunitial oligarchy and against local jealousies and prejudices.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04
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In the proceedings of the parliament of 1242, which were duly recorded and which survive as the earliest authorized report of a parliamentary debate, we find the representatives of the nation, after thoroughly discussing the expediency of a foreign war, bold enough to oppose it by refusing an aid to the king to carry it on.
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Through misplaced moralism, political expediency, or apathy, America is ruinously mishandling the underground economy.
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Unless he is once again abandoning reality in favor of political expediency.
Matthew Yglesias » Mark Hemingway’s Preposterous High-Speed Rail Spin
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For me integrity, not expediency, and deeply rooted in the values of the intrinsic business requirements.
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These are not politics of honest principle; they are politics of political expediency .
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These are not politics of honest principle; they are politics of political expediency .
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I just think its inaccurate to criticize a politician for lying if you think that political expediency is a good justification for stuff.
Matthew Yglesias » Bygones
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Your expediency and cooperation are greatly appreciated.
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This is often a legacy of historic inception, piecemeal development, and political expediency.
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In doing so, he appeared prepared to sacrifice military success on the altar of political expediency.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have emancipated myself from that so far I have reason to consider false; - I am able to have faith in singleness of motive, and to tread under foot all temptations to expediency.
Zoe: The History of Two Lives
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Expediency often involves the abandonment of war's more high-sounding objectives.
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I suppose I have been guilty myself of expediency, in being less than idealistically all-embracing of the boat-people issue!
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I suspect many, like me and my family, went because we cannot stomach the idea that we are being bounced into war for the sake of political expediency.
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By supporting the status quo they have put political expediency before the interests of our children.
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He acted from expediency, not from principle.
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These letters highlight two of the main positions adopted by both the individual and the government early on in the conflict: this was a war that was containable, winnable and could be resolved with some expediency.
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They deny both the justice and expediency of permitting any degree of ignorance or debasement to work the forfeiture of self-ownership, and pronounce slavery continued for such a cause the worst of all, inasmuch as it is the _robbery of the poor because he is poor_.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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When the parties consent to the exercise of jurisdiction by a magistrate judge, they are essentially agreeing to promote her pro hac vice to district judge, and attempting to gain expediency without sacrificing neutrality.
The Volokh Conspiracy » District Court Opinions Precedential Within the Same District?
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Avoiding the promotion of political and constitutional reform on the basis of short-term expediency is imperative.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jefferson's acts as president possess a coherence beyond the accidents of expediency.
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Tax plans born out of political ideology rather than economic expediency almost always end in failure.
Times, Sunday Times
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This was not for a war of national survival, but for political expediency.
Times, Sunday Times
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Also, and kind of ironically, you have to regard the theoretical McCain model of a politician as a straight shooting, straight talker, as a bad politician to support, since straight talking at the cost of political expediency is a bad thing. cmholm Says:
Matthew Yglesias » Bygones
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I can't say I share your 'Mea Culpa' view re lack of theory ... there is no great question of theory behind the advocacy of the slogan, nor of lack of theory behind our objections to it; and I still think the switching off from class struggle to race struggle an exaggeration, and a departure from Lenin, quite apart from what you call expediency (as if 'theory' were something above expediency or expediency below theory).
Sidney Percival Bunting
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The government is torn between principle and expediency.
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I am keen that this will be based on evidence rather than political expediency.
Times, Sunday Times
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principled pragmatism and unprincipled expediency
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And finally, they contributed a specifically Christian objection to any divorce between expediency and the moral realm.
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This should not be difficult as he's well practised at putting short-term expediency before principle.
Letters: The case for AV – and alternative policies
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It is often referred to as expedient, but expediency is increasingly proving to be the deadly enemy of virtue.
Locke Rush: The U.S. As Addict
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I think that people can see the political expediency of the U-turn.
Times, Sunday Times
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But others fear that it could cut corners in the name of economic expediency resulting in a degrading of justice.
Times, Sunday Times
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As well as being a tale of political backscratching, collusion and expediency, it tells of the suffering of individuals, such as Prosper in Crawley, a man fighting to find out what happened to his family.
This week's new theatre and dance
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The government must be careful not to sacrifice prosperity for political expediency by saddling business with costs that could harm investment which is critical to increasing productivity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Avoiding the promotion of political and constitutional reform on the basis of short-term expediency is imperative.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hence, where Mr. Obama is concerned, his refusal to "disown" Reverend Wright based on his ludicrous claim that he had not been "present" for any of such sermons makes this an issue of honesty, not race, of political expediency not moral courage.
Sylvia Welsh: Honesty Not Race, Expediency Not Courage
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Their disregard for scientific truth in favor of political expediency is sickening.
Science
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Women and children from the near and rich country towns, in for the Exposition and their fall shopping; wearing gowns of ultra fashionable tendencies; leaving in their toilets nothing to expediency; taking no chances of so much as a ribbon or a loop set in disaccordance with the book.
At Fault
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Wars break out; they are not carefully diarised for the sake of political and climatic expediency.
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Actions taken for reasons of political and economic expediency have been presented as if altruism were the sole motive.
The Chomsky Update - Linguistics and Politics
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Actions taken for reasons of political and economic expediency have been presented as if altruism were the sole motive.
The Chomsky Update - Linguistics and Politics
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The modern corporation was founded on the principle of expediency.
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But we must not pose legality and expediency as opposite extremes.
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Normally due to short-sighted political expediency or a general lack of commitment to or knowledge of the free-market.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Rhetoric of Opposition
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In such a case, legislation would be sent to the Expediency Council - another conservative body that arbitrates between the Parliament and the Guardian Council - for a final decision.
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Both are pro-American marketeers, Howard from instinct, the Prime Minister from a process of political calculation that is based part on principle, part on political expediency.
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Partly, this may be down to political expediency rather than health reasons.
Times, Sunday Times
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I think this government operates on the basis of expediency, not of principle.
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They are not just men sacrificed to expediency, they are not men too civilised for an uncivilised world.
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But he considers it wrong that rugby's heartlands are being ignored and substantial areas disenfranchised, purely for financial expediency.
Times, Sunday Times
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With a national election looming next year, the dispute is charged with allegations of political expediency.
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This can only be based on grounds of political expediency, not national security.
Times, Sunday Times
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These points appear to have been manufactured with expediency, and they were therefore likely expendable.
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The turn has been interpreted as tactical; accusations of political expediency turned on the thought that her earlier concern for the sanctity of human life had not been grounded in principled pacifism.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
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The government must be careful not to sacrifice prosperity for political expediency by saddling business with costs that could harm investment which is critical to increasing productivity.
Times, Sunday Times
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But, even taking into account the feckless expediency of his "get out now" rhetoric, Obama has shown a more sophisticated strategic intelligence than McCain has (and Hillary Clinton has, too) ... and no amount of bluster from the McCain camp can change that.
McCain’s Sunni Shi’ites - Swampland - TIME.com
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Political and financial expediency has influenced the balance between humanitarianism and military necessity.
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Men living estranged from God easily cast aside God's morals and principles, exchanging them for a blind belief in rationalistic expediency.
The Spirit of '67
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If firmness is preserved in dealing with those who are in variance in their conduct with the terms of the Charter, and if the nations speaking through the Security Council take a firm stand, based on principles and don't try to play the game of expediency, then I think we may be hopeful for the future.
The Challenge We Face
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Force of historical circumstances had dramatically reunited two friends temporarily disunited as a consequence of Cold War expediency.
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It was difficult to strike the right balance between justice and expediency.
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And like the Lees, Abernethy saw the moderates in Congress—Morris, Franklin, James Wilson, and John Dickinson—as corrupt and self-interested practitioners of “political expediency.”
Robert Morris
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The government has not provided such a plan, and looks as if it has no intention of doing so for reasons of political expediency.
Times, Sunday Times
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Critics of the plan believe it is rooted as much in political expediency as in a genuine desire to revamp the topmost tier of the legal system.
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Focusing on crime on its own from a party viewpoint and without local engagement will be difficult and will lead to political expediency and short-termism.
Times, Sunday Times
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I believe that the time frame suggested in the bill in which claims should be completed suggests that we may compromise justness and fairness all for the sake of expediency.
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The aristocracy of this period has been castigated for its naked self-interest and expediency.
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We must have principled leaders who define all of life by principles and not expediency.
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In doing so, he appeared prepared to sacrifice military success on the altar of political expediency.
Times, Sunday Times
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He acted out of expediency, not principle.
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Just as Newman felt liberal politics was out to use the church for political expediency, he also saw this as an element of Monophysitism.
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His belated embrace of the me-too politics of health care may have been prompted by political expediency.
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For a start, all the various contenders thrashing about in the struggle to take over the Conservative party would surely gain from having experts in expediency to consult.
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One suspects that aesthetic considerations were cynically sacrificed to muddle-headed political expediency and tokenism.
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Yet here too we may observe that what we term expediency is merely the law of right limited by the conditions of human society.
The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett
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Force of historical circumstances had dramatically reunited two friends temporarily disunited as a consequence of Cold War expediency.
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For much of the twentieth century, mandarins of the law viewed the courts as agents of social change and the law as contingent, evolutionary, and ultimately subservient to political expediency.
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Partly, this may be down to political expediency rather than health reasons.
Times, Sunday Times
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A confirmation for Sotomayor have Democrats on the Hill thinking they will garner more voter support in 2010, political expediency is the flavor of the day, not what's right or wrong based on principal.
CNN Poll: Do Americans want Sotomayor confirmed?