Sentence examples for As expedient from inspiring English sources

Mr. Sikkema has learned that a strong metaphor can be as expedient as meeting the bottom line.

"I don't think whatever he's doing intends to be offensive, but to be as expedient as possible considering the many, many challenges he is facing in many, many areas".

Mr. Wood justified his behavior as expedient.

No true democracy has been fostered, but the old ideologies persist only as expedient rhetoric.

It was seen as expedient to enlist them in an effort to heighten tax compliance.

"Everything is functional primarily, and then aesthetic within the limits of what is functional as well as expedient," he says.

Under questioning, the president's "I don't remembers" begin as politically expedient memory lapses and morph on screen into the tragic blank spaces of early Alzheimer's.

The new provisions of the New York bill were regarded as expedients to deal with this crisis.

It may be that the decision to give Cherkaoui Flanders was an expedient as well as an artistic choice.

Since then, actions regarded at the time as merely expedient have been recast as a far-sighted strategy and dignified by the term "gradualism".

Some Tamils perceive Britain, among others, as morally expedient towards Sri Lanka – and as having contributed to 7,000 civilian deaths in recent months.