How To Use Expedient In A Sentence

It has no influence of ocean depth, positions accurately and rapidly and operates expediently.
Such of these principles as the Council found expedient at present to formularize, were set forth by it in "The Dogmatic Constitution of the Catholic Faith. History of the Conflict between Religion and Science
According to Damascene (De Fide Orth. iii, 24), "to pray is to ask becoming things of God"; wherefore it is useless to pray for what is inexpedient, according to James 4: 3, "You ask, and receive not: because you ask amiss. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
An action is expedient when it is suitable to the end in view. Times, Sunday Times
The Holy Roman Empire ever since the first event of Charles the Great's coronation, when it justified itself as a diplomatical expedient for unifying Western Christendom, had existed more or less as a shadow. Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction

an inexpedient tactic
No universal rule can be laid down, but often an expedient can be used to provide reasons without revealing confidential or privileged evidence.
Combat engineers learn how to breach minefields, lay minefields, set boobytraps, build field-expedient explosives, and other skills that would be very valuable to a terrorist recruit.
Yet in practice this apparently simple expedient is frequently impossible.
The government found it expedient to slacken the grip of censorship in order to encourage loyal expressions of support for the Emancipation programme.
In truth it is the genetic similarity between humans and primates that makes experimenting on them expedient.
But the gesture, largely a political expedient, was not all it seemed. A Rock and a Hard Place
The numerous shafts in S. Sophia exhibit the remarkable and beautiful structural expedient of surrounding the shafts, both under the capital and above the base, by bronze annulets.
There is the further expedient of "stilting" the cross arches, that is, making the real arch spring from a point above the impost and building the lower portion of it vertical, as shown in Fig. 98. Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888
She empowered him to tell them, that whatever blame she might throw on Mary's conduct, any opposition to their sovereign was totally unjustifiable, and incompatible with all order and good government: that it belonged not to them to reform, much less to punish, the maleadministration of their prince; and the only arms which subjects could in any case lawfully employ against the supreme authority, were entreaties, counsels, and representations: that if these expedients failed, they were next to appeal by their prayers to The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I.
Submission — He practises an Expedient to detain the Carriage at Alost, and confirms the Priest in his Interest. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
Since there was soon to be a general election, the Prime Minister decided that a change of policy was politically expedient.
You can be expedient at the same time, and practical," Womble said sharply. A DAY'S LODGING
It is expedient to resume the practice, which existed in the not so distant past, of exchanging military specialists, scientific collectives, and major experts in the naval sphere.
For ten long minutes they stood talking, driving poor Gimblet to the desperate expedient of entering the shop and demanding a closer acquaintance with the cairngorm. The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story
But, they insist, it is merely a temporary expedient. Times, Sunday Times
It was expedient to retire gracefully.
The consular _triumviri_, not perhaps quite independent of external influences, were originally adopted as a temporary expedient. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04
When he had once opposed Themistocles in some measures that were expedient, and had got the better of him, he could not refrain from saying, when he left the assembly, that unless they sent Themistocles and himself to the barathrum, (a pit into which the dead bodies of malefactors were thrown) there could be no safety for Athens. The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch; being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls
Too fond of the right to pursue the expedient---Oliver Goldsmith, Irish poet, writer and physician.
It would be politically expedient to withdraw them, but the reason for their presence is an intransigent regime that refuses to do anything to allay suspicions that it is developing weapons of mass destruction.
It appears that the administration will attempt to finesse this problem by the blatant expedient of pretending the borrowing never happened.
However, the giant pre-empted him by the simple expedient of hauling the prostrate felon off the ground by his hair and then dropping him when Grundle had scrambled clear.
They depart from Ghent — Our Hero engages in a Political Dispute with his Mistress, whom he offends, and pacifies with Submission — He practises an Expedient to detain the Carriage at Alost, and confirms the Priest in his Interest. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
They divined the contents of sealed envelopes by the simple expedient of opening the staples at the other end of the envelope.
I'm sure Obama, being a good progressive and a fine fellow, has many spokespeople in Planned Parenthood, etc. who can help him parse his way through his serial, politically-expedient non-committedness. Hillary Hits Obama In New Speech: "I've Heard A Lot Of Talk About Turning The Page"
It was thenceforth no longer a question of whether this or that theorem was true, but whether it was useful to capital or harmful, expedient or inexpedient, in accordance with police regulations or contrary to them.
Your Honour asks about any other expedients we might propose.
Secondly, the centrality of nuclear deterrence to the current system of armed peace is dangerous and a short-term expedient only. NATO's Changing Strategic Agenda
A great many of the men are wholly without shoes and use every expedient, such as rawhide moccasins and sandals and even wrapping the feet in pieces of woolen and cotton cloth. Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert
Koldehoff further defined the latter as an ‘expedient, nonformalized industry’, contrasting it to more formal concomitant microlith and large-biface industries.
The following various procedures and expedients have evolved over time to create a ceramic program that is efficient.
Besides, by then the bombers so far outranged the jets that desperate expedients such as towing the jets or carrying them in B - 36 bomb bays proved fruitless.
We are dealing with secular humanists, and while we are on earth, what is expedient, and convenient, will pass for truth and morality.
It may therefore become economically and politically expedient to encourage a shift to more labour intensive methods of primary production.
And when it comes to illness some of the systems of bathing and exercising prescribed by the "naturopath" are infinitely more troublesome to the patient and his friends than the simple expedient of sending for the doctor and taking the prescribed doses. Food Remedies Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses
It is not expedient to burden this preliminary to my story with further details, which I do make asseveration I possess a-plenty. JERRY OF THE ISLANDS
And for those who feel the need to defend their perimeter with fougasse, the Army Chemical Corps expedient recipe for improvised napalm is to mix powdered laundry detergent with gasoline until it has a consistency like applesauce. A Gunpowder Plot At The History Channel?
Now down into crawler gear he pushes on, finding regular protection by the simple expedient of removing most of the ice!
Our efforts in agricultural science are thus, at best, temporary expedients.
A spokeswoman for Saxo said the bank had taken '' cognisance '' of the FSA's orders and would comply '' expediently ''. The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines
Since there was soon to be a general election, the Prime Minister decided that a change of policy was politically expedient.
Policing is only practicable and therefore expedient if the court acting in that role has power to enforce its powers if disobeyed.
Anglicanism was a political expedient rather than a doctrinal necessity, which explains why its theological content has always been light. Times, Sunday Times
Human beings construct their politics in terms of pragmatic, expediential goals.
The government found it expedient to slacken the grip of censorship in order to encourage loyal expressions of support for the Emancipation programme.
a bottle-jack key, or the winch of a kitchen range, the click of the mechanism being imitated by means of a watchman's rattle, or by the even simpler expedient of drawing a piece of hard wood smartly along Entertainments for Home, Church and School
Moore escaped by the simple expedient of lying down in a clump of grass.
In consequence of Mrs. Snagsby looking deeply edified, Mr. Snagsby thinks it expedient on the whole to say amen, which is well received. Bleak House
Pitt suggested that it would be respectful to the Prince of Wales, and expedient in the order of their proceedings, to know parliamentarily, whether he was willing to accept the regency upon the terms imposed by that house. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
Too fond of the right to pursue the expedient.
It is expedient to organize and conduct the work at this stage along three principal lines: self-identification, self-study, and self-evaluation.
Without it, the eurozone economies will stumble from one temporary expedient to another, amid much human misery. Times, Sunday Times
The only expedient which could prevent their separation was boldly agitated and approved the popular resentment was insensibly moulded into a regular conspiracy; their just reasons of complaint were heightened by passion, and their passions were inflamed by wine; as, on the eve of their departure, the troops were indulged in licentious festivity. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Mortgage lending was controlled by the simple expedient of rationing. Times, Sunday Times
Under the scheme the council will be able to do so by the simple expedient of branding them inefficient. Times, Sunday Times
Exactly how they "strafed" the immoral and ubiquitous Hun submarine it is inexpedient to say. Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories
It would be inexpedient to inform them at this stage.
Politically, expressing horror at degeneracy was expedient.
And for those who feel the need to defend their perimeter with fougasse, the Army Chemical Corps expedient recipe for improvised napalm is to mix powdered laundry detergent with gasoline until it has a consistency like applesauce. A Gunpowder Plot At The History Channel?
Fontinell deplores the misconceptions of Pragmatism which characterize the movement as “a kind of unfeeling, unprincipled, non-idealistic, expediental response to human problems”.
Some scholars considered the ‘public interest’ standard to be an expedient gesture to make the government's licensing powers constitutional.
Witli Gen. Hogan's report on tbe comprint of Col. Conoll; agiunst Jm. Jewell; consider Jewell a verj necessary person in the prison, although it maj be expedient to limit the jailer's power over prisoners of war. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Action is an effort to produce certain consequences and is therefore essentially expediential.
Today many ag and retail food concerns find it expedient to employ persons well versed in husbandry/ag production to vet the methods and policies of their suppliers. Firearms Superlatives, Part II
The management has taken a series of expedient measures to improve the company's financial situation.
He was not even gracious enough to apologise and did not do so until some time later when it became expedient, in terms of his public image, to offer a grudging and less than grovelling apology.
Tim, being (I suppose) out of credit with the cordwainer, fell upon this ingenious expedient to supply the want of shoes, knowing that Mr Birkin, who loves humour, would himself relish the joke upon a little recollection. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Puerto and noology, or the distance between the discursive processes of the media and the material process of 'tardy' (i.e. dysfunctional) Spanish justice and the manner in which in the spectacle it has been played out, so that the old ways and law of old Europe and ideas like the rule of law have become expedient and are forgotten so that 'law' simply becomes a servant of the pure functionality of preserving the integrity of the investment of state and capital; Interactivist Info Exchange - A Project of Interactivist.net and Autonomedia.org
To avert this situation, and ultimately to consolidate strategic stability, it is expedient to limit search activity against missile armed submarines.
But would you not hold it expedient, before we proceed any further, that we should invocate Hercules and the Tenetian goddesses who in the chamber of lots are said to rule, sit in judgment, and bear a presidential sway? Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
By the simple expedient of not being very important, it brings out the best in a manager. Times, Sunday Times
The standard of care imposed under section 4 depends, fundamentally, on what is considered expedient and reasonable in terms of general banking practice.
In the positive endeavour to realise an opinion, to convert a theory into practice, it may be, and very often is, highly expedient to defer to the prejudices of the majority, to move very slowly, to bow to the conditions of the _status quo_, to practise the very utmost sobriety, self-restraint, and conciliatoriness. On Compromise
To be expedient, we must act within the bounds of international law consistent with consensus among the emerging allied coalition.
It was no more than a temporary expedient. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
This is determined by the simple expedient of the listener holding a microphone to locate their position in the room.
Memory space is limited, so we have to use it economically, storing as little as possible and forgetting as soon as is expedient.
Cotters, squireens, gossoons, lord lieutenants, and castle aid-de-camps, all pass in review before us, and the English reader will doubtless be diverted by the domestic economy, and good humored expedients, of the Dalton Family.
Too fond of the right to pursue the expedient.
Our remote ancestors were among those who found it expedient to change and diversify.
Although this is often the most expedient method of solving the problem, it has significant implications in terms of service, operation, and the quality of water delivered to the tap.
It's a 39-page booklet doing just what the title promises, even if the continuation is perhaps false advertising: "...wherby an English man shal not only with ease read the said tong rightly: but markyng the same wel, it shal be a meane for him with one labour and diligence to attaine to the true and natural pronuncation of other expediente and most excellente languages. Languagehat.com: THE BRITISH TONG.
Evidia: evidentia (Latin), traces. excipieren: excipere (Latin), to except. excrationen: execrations. exequiert: exekutiert, executed. exparient: expedient or experiment (?), expedient: the French version has expédient. experient: see exparient. extendieren: dilate: nicht fast extendieren. Christoph von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern. Edited with an Historical Introduction and an English Translation by Vincent H. Todd, Ph.D. University of Illinois in Cooperation with Julius Goebel, Ph.D., Professor of Germanic Languag
They all go together, no matter how convenient or expedient it is to try to separate them.
You can believe that these atrocities changed the world and made hitherto unthinkable expedients necessary.
The government has clearly decided that a cut in interest rates would be politically expedient.
Machine technician can use this language to show the assembly project expediently.
But his tenure, in difficult circumstances, has been distinctly underwhelming and an amicable parting of the ways between club and manager could be expedient. Times, Sunday Times
We've got a politically expedient solution that isn't safe.
Since there was soon to be a general election, the Prime Minister decided that a change of policy was politically expedient.
Production capabilities produce such products as operations and intelligence overlays and overprints, map substitutes (photomaps), expedient revisions to standard maps, draft manuscripts of terrain analysis overlays and graphics, and precise survey and geodetic positions. FM 7-98 Chapter 7 - Combat Support
When politicians and their supporters believe the other side is pursuing policies that would destroy all they cherish, compromise becomes not a desirable expedient but "almost treasonous," to use the phrase tossed about by Gov. The Seattle Times
How neurological the problem is, or how politically expedient, is a moot point.
We Marxists consider the tactic of individual terror inexpedient in the tasks of the liberating struggle of the proletariat as well as oppressed nationalities.
I have, therefore, thought of the following expedient, which will almost answer the same purpose -- viz. that all power, both _legislative and executive, ecclesiastical and civil_, may be divided among _both sexes_; and that they may be equally capable of sitting in Parliament. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843
King Ethelred and his cowardly, selfish Court were well satisfied with this expedient, and the tax called Danegeld was laid upon the people, in order to raise a fund for buying off the enemy. A Book of Golden Deeds
He added: 'I think if one is being sensitive to the feelings of others then it may not be expedient. Times, Sunday Times
In consequence of Mr.. Snagsby looking deeply edified, Mr. Snagsby thinks it expedient on the whole to say amen, which is well received. Bleak House
Mr Ashdown is not content with imposing his version of stability as a temporary expedient, a regrettably necessary short-term tactic.
All the expedients of strategy nevertheless share a common purpose: to reach military results that alter the political calculations of the belligerents.
He does not stoop to deny the charge against the president, instead he points out the signifier of the true moralist: the man who tears up the constitution when politically expedient.
It was a time or rather—since ordinary time was gone by the board—a series of instant shifts and expedients, of surviving from one stunning thunderclap and invasion of water to the next and between them making fast such things as the jollyboat, the binnacle itself and the booms that had carried away. Archive 2006-12-01
Since there was soon to be a general election, the Prime Minister decided that a change of policy was politically expedient.
To encourage the sacrifice of youth for the sake of advancing the ideologies of the old must be considered a form of evil that transcends local politics and expedient strategies.
Mr Ashdown is not content with imposing his version of stability as a temporary expedient, a regrettably necessary short-term tactic.
Only now that it has become commercially expedient are they showing any conscience. Times, Sunday Times
Monsieur de La Broche and the Bischop of Amiance ar cumit in this cuntrey; ane thing sa vaine and untrew, that the contrarie thairof is notour to all men of free jugement: Thairfoir hir Grace, willing that the occatiouns quhairby hir Grace was movit sa to do be maid patent, and quhat hes bene hir proceidingis sen the Appointment last maid on the Linkis besyde Leith, to the effect that the treuth of all thingis being maid manifest, everie man may understand how injustlie that will to suppres the libertie of this realme is laid to hir charge, hes thocht expedient to mak this discours following: -- The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
These equipment shortages are no accident – they are the result of short-term expedient purchase from the lowest bidder and the most connected. [shoddy defence] non-partisan collusion at high levels
This solution is politically expedient but may well cause long-term problems.
They cannot be beaten by the standard expedients like military force or political tools.
We think it is expedient to make a good-will gesture to the new administration.
As he most memorably said, ‘The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.’
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
While we do not share his belief that the railways ought to be renationalised, we say that over the last 35 years expedient decisions have left the UK at a distinct disadvantage.
Because the Constitution gives the President the discretion to recommend only “such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient” Article II, section 3 of the Constitution, the specified officers and I shall treat these directions as precatory. The Volokh Conspiracy » Recalling Candidate Obama on Signing Statements:
They include a close, often bemused knowledge of one's fellow villagers, and linguistic expedients such as giving slighting nicknames, telling humorous anecdotes, and composing satirical ballads.
If these expedients failed, the local parish stepped in.
By the simple expedient of renting a lovely French aristocrat, the froideur turns to fun, and the surly city becomes all smiles and elegance.
The following question was overtured, viz.: "Is it expedient to admit baptized slaves as witnesses in ecclesiastical judicatories where others cannot be had? Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers
Too fond of the right to pursue the expedient.
It may be expedient to allow the currency to depreciate in order to obtain a rapid improvement in competitiveness.
Saint Nicholas in Russia, being furnished with all things expedient for such a discouerie, and with a new supply of victuals at his arriuall there, and also to hire into his companie certaine Russes best knowen vnto himselfe, who can perfectly speake the Samoeds language, and are acquainted with the riuer of Ob, as hauing frequented those places yeere by yeere. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
It is no better when it is vented in spiteful and mischievous language: He that utters slander is a fool too, for God will sooner or later bring forth that righteousness as the light which he endeavours to cloud, and will find an expedient to roll the reproach away. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
In the absolutely necessary intercourse with domestics, Louise, more accustomed to expedients, bolder by habit, and desirous to please Catharine, willingly took on herself the trouble of getting from the pantler the materials of their slender meal, and of arranging it with the dexterity of her country. The Fair Maid of Perth
Academic institutions have often found it more expedient to Africanise rather than indigenise. ANC Daily News Briefing
The military and landowning cliques in many South American countries will find it attractive financially to work with German fascist concerns as well as expedient from the standpoint of temporary power politics. Think Progress » Gregg: Not ‘A Lot Of People’ Would ‘Really Care’ If Democrats Use Reconciliation To Finish Health Care
And when Jesus answered, that it is not lawful to put away a wife and to marry another, except on account of whoredom, they replied that nevertheless Moses commanded to give a bill of divorce and to put her away; and the disciples said, If the case of a man with his wife be so it is not expedient to marry_, "xix. The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
There is, however, an expedient familiar to conjurers as "changing a card," which, with a little modification, is extensively used by the cardsharping fraternity under the name of "second dealing. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4
Edward VI notwithstanding, and that the holding of wardmotes in the borough would materially interfere with the duties of an ancient officer known as a seneschal or steward of Southwark, the petition could not be complied with, except by application to the legislature, and that such a course would neither be expedient or advisable. London and the Kingdom - Volume I
The whole scheme was premature and inexpedient.
Since there was soon to be a general election, the Prime Minister decided that a change of policy was politically expedient.
Mr. Cowen is there made to say, not that he _resigned_ nomination; -- But that for reasons there enumerated, "it was his _personal wish to resign his own nomination_ &c. and he submitted to the decision of the meeting, the question whether it would be most expedient to act on his _resignation which_ he now made (_which_ must refer to the _personal wish_ before expressed, for no other resignation is pretended) if the meeting should judge a postponement impracticable, or to postpone acting until he could have time to communicate to some of the particular friends of his nomination (beside those who were present at the meeting) his reasons for resigning, and procure their concurrence _before hand_ &c. A Review and Exposition, of the Falsehoods and Misrepresentations, of a Pamphlet Addressed to the Republicans of the County of Saratoga, Signed, "A Citizen"
Easter next ensuing, be released: we answere (vnder correction of your maiesties more deliberate counsell) that it is farre more expedient for both parts to haue the sayd prohibition continued then released, vntil such time as satisfaction be performed on both sides vnto the parties endamaged, not in words only, but actually and really in deeds, or by some course of law or friendly composition. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Deeming it expedient to move away, he became steward in the household of Sir Thomas Arundel, one of the king's courtiers.
Cyclists need to take responsibility for their own actions, through the simple expedient of staying away from a manoeuvring large vehicle. Times, Sunday Times
The government found it expedient to relax censorship a little.
The politician deals confessedly with the Expedient.
And with Obama's job approval numbers at their current levels, another term for McCain could well provide the Senator a chance to fan the flames of a 2008 rivalry and continue on his politically expedient ideological march rightwards. The Real McCain, A Shape-Shifter And Self-Preservationist: Vanity Fair
You must develop the capacity to observe what is happening in your head in real time -- one of the most expedient, and often unsettling, technologies for doing this is Zen meditation or "zazen. Mark Eckhardt: PBS's 'This Emotional Life': Zen Strategies for Getting 'Unstuck'
The expedient of hiding a child in a pannier, which is afterwards filled up with eggs and chickens, and carried through a camp of hungry rebels, does not somehow appeal to the mind as quite the safest that could have been devised. Maria Edgeworth
Judges throughout the federal judiciary rely on the assistance of law clerks to ensure the smooth and expedient administration of justice.
It was inexpedient for him to be seen to approve of the decision.
Mortgage lending was controlled by the simple expedient of rationing. Times, Sunday Times
Temporary expedients become institutional commitments and a thick web of military and bureaucratic interests comes to dominate strategy.
What with the silk road and the spread of Buddhism and all, I guess it's conceivable that there's some historical connection, but in this case it was just an unscholarly expedient on my part.
Through the simple expedient of standing bets for future racing authorities while they were still young enough to be foolish, he remained unpersecuted by them once they reached status and power; and the one sort of winner old crafty Marius could spot better even than horses was the colt heading for the boardroom. The Elvis Latte
a kind of cataleptic trance by the horrible expedient of the transfusion into it of blood drawn from other human beings by his semi-materialized Kâmarûpa, and thus postpones his final destiny by the commission of wholesale murder. The Astral Plane Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena
was merciful only when mercy was expedient
He has not yet got my letter: and while I was contriving here how to send my officious gaoleress from me, that I might have time for the intended interview, and had hit upon an expedient, which I believe would have done, came my aunt, and furnished me with a much better. Clarissa Harlowe
This solution is politically expedient but may well cause long-term problems.
Surgical waiting lists were reduced by the simple expedient of striking off all patients awaiting varicose vein operations.
He based his case on two arguments, one scriptural and one expediential.
But there is also a short term expedient which might prove minimally disruptive to the European Monetary Union's current political and institutional arrangements, but could well succeed in restoring growth and employment in the euro zone. Deficit Terrorism Could Kill the Euro
Since there was soon to be a general election, the Prime Minister decided that a change of policy was politically expedient.
The trials programme emerged as an ingenious political expedient in early 1998.
In this age of nine month response times and smart-ass submission guidelines, the efforts of F&SF to be prompt and expedient is commendable. Monday night chatter
With short-term expedients come long-term costs and uncertainties.
This kind of catechising was at first very annoying to us, but we have now become accustomed to it, and have hit upon an expedient to avoid it in a measure. Townsend Chapter 1
That leaves only two expedients - just print lots of new money, and inflate away the value of the benefits; or renege on Social Security's promises.
What Burke means by compromise, and what every true statesman understands by it, is that it may be most inexpedient to meddle with an institution merely because it does not harmonise with 'argument and logical illation.' On Compromise
This is not to say that I believe in airy-fairy notions of spirit, but I'm willing to pretend, as an expedient fiction, that my id and your id and all the ids coded into artworks throughout our culture form an ... aesthetic-behavioural system of sorts. Genius in a Bottle
We should clearly recognize that the airlift is a temporary expedient. Daring Young Men
Timing itself is critical: a war or violent event in itself enhances the expediental ethic and leads to callousness.
These expedients, however, did not abate poverty: indeed, if anything, they tended to increase poverty.
Responsible statesmen and stateswomen are not merely free, as sovereign rulers, to act in an expedient way.
Besides all kinds of irregular expedients the Danegeld had been practically revived, and to it was now given the name of carucage, a tax of two shillings on every plough-land. A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII
Surgical waiting lists were reduced by the simple expedient of striking off all patients awaiting varicose vein operations.
SOCRATES: The words axumphoron (inexpedient), anopheles (unprofitable), alusiteles (unadvantageous), akerdes (ungainful). Cratylus
We think it is expedient to make a good-will gesture to the new administration.
I cut my purchases dramatically by the simple expedient of destroying my credit cards.
Non - grade speed adjustment by frequency converters, working steadily, use and maintenance expediently.
The earliest military museums were arsenals, but since many of these have since become famous military museums it is expedient to regard them as the forerunners of the genre.
His positions have perfectly tracked whatever was politically expedient at the moment.
Such expedient measures can be made to work, but their common fault is that they are almost always too low.
Federal prosecutors are free to cherry-pick high-profile or politically expedient cases, knowing that the cases they reject probably will be prosecuted in state court.
Because the original film was in German, complicated overdubbing is not required; creation of a parody can be achieved by the simple expedient of superimposing fake subtitles. Hitler Flummoxed by
Governments frequently ignore human rights abuses in other countries if it is politically expedient to do so.
This was no other than an expedient of the painter to awaken his dulcinea, with whom he had made an assignation, or at least interchanged such signals as he thought amounted to a firm appointment. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
It was decided that creating a new line on the south side of the river would be the most expedient method to effect a double-track railroad.
While it may now be considered politically expedient to ignore this eternal truth it will never go away.
In the case of Japanese traditional arts, the vehicle of this double transformation, the expedient means, is regular training or practice.
Page can be aliened in any form except by authority of an Act of the General Assembly, it is therefore inexpedient for this Board of Visitors minutes
Whatever is politically expedient is how she will express hercurrent of political will so asto obfuscate hertotal failure todo what requires strength of conviction and courage. Rudy Was Against English Being "Official Language" Before He Was For It
This apparent lack of the respect for the dead led to criticism, but it was a necessary expedient.
He got his way by the simple expedient of voting twice. Times, Sunday Times
That might be a short-term expedient to buy him time but it would not be in the long-term interests of the business. Times, Sunday Times
These expedients for raising money displayed ‘well-nigh diabolical ingenuity’.
In other words, an order for absolute discharge does not imply either conviction or that punishment is inexpedient: it implies a finding that the accused did the act in question and that an absolute discharge is the most suitable order.
If the compensations are too small, no one will volunteer to take part in the given hazardous activity, and if they are too large, the state will find it inexpedient for socioeconomic reasons to put the project into effect.
The archduke was a man of high-soaring ideas, chivalrous, brave even to the point of audacity, full of expedients and never daunted by failure, but he was deficient in stability of character, and always hampered throughout his life by lack of funds. History of Holland
The western leaders confidently pose as self-appointed custodians of democracy, an expedient ploy to win over public opinion.
Governments frequently ignore human rights abuses in other countries if it is politically expedient to do so.
Of course, in the world of broadcasting what is possible is often undone by what is profitable - or politically expedient.
What more expedient way of doing my job is there than coming out and chatting with the bands?

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