Sentence examples for * expediency in from inspiring English sources

Now the party has enshrined that political greed and expediency in its fundamental declaration of principles.

Pataki tried to cloak expediency in the garb of majesty, but he hasn't been able to carry off either one.

Others attribute the decision to call an abrupt halt to the war to political expediency in Washington.

Mr. Romney may have been acting out of political expediency in creating the universal health care system in Massachusetts — it is never easy to determine his actual principles.

"They filed these charges in this court simply as a matter of expediency in order to obtain the arrest warrant," Mr. Lambino said.

This doesn't mean that Mr. Bush is a secret racist; it simply reflected expediency in the choice of racial symbolism at that moment.

The elements fell together in part for the sake of expediency and in part because, according to Wisnom, "neither Tom [Stell] or I realized the other was joking".

For reasons of political expediency and in order to maintain peace and quiet in the coalition, the Knesset is about to pass a law that offends the vast majority of world Jewry.

The end of the line literally and figuratively, Schefferville lies by a quirk of geographic or political expediency, not in the Labrador region, but just over the border in Quebec.

Instead, the public has been offered a myth of expediency wrapped in a damaging argument about the nature of justice.

But in the end new politics is like the old politics, a mix of principled conviction and expediency, rooted in a party.