Sentence examples for * the expedient from inspiring English sources

In Harley's case the expedient approach would be to cut prices to keep market share.

It is the expedient outcome of an administrative change that partly explains its neutral character.

This may be interpreted as the expedient equivocating of a nonetheless reform-minded official, but it is not reassuring.

For non-VIPs, the expedient alternative is to take what could be labelled the "Axis of Evil" tour.

Why that should have anything to do with the expedient way Olympic decisions are made beats me.

The recourse to Mao is an example of the expedient populism that insecure ruling classes resort to.

There's a wonderful quote from Adam Smith where he says that the Pennsylvania expedient worked precisely because of the moderation, and for want of that moderation, the same expedient in the other colonies produced harm rather than benefit.

For this is one (rare) instance where Mr Clinton has put principle above the politically expedient.

If that is the politically expedient solution, the president may well conclude, so be it.

For Jamie Smith, this comes via the simple expedient of not saying anything.

Such is the volatile, expedient new world of American foreign policy in which Colin Powell presides.