Sentence examples for Expediency from inspiring English sources
The word "expediency" is correct and usable in written English
Generally, it is used to mean the quality of acting with speed and efficiency, or the quality of being suitable for a particular purpose. For example: "We decided to choose the most expedient solution to the problem, so that we could move on quickly."
noun
The quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; suitability for particular circumstance or situation.
The Queen's speech was an exercise in political expediency.
They felt history was being rewritten and the name of the RUC was being sacrificed for political expediency and were keen to give their account.
There were good reasons that 10 years ago the Labour government decided to invite Polish labour into the country earlier than it needed to, a decision from which they have disgracefully stepped back now for reasons of political expediency.
"I don't know if you took any one of those issues and went back and looked at her statements – take gay marriage out of the equation for the moment – and said, 'OK, this goes against sort of her actual core set of values, and this is only political expediency' – I don't think that's a fair assessment," Walter said.
And frankly to just do it for political expediency stinks".
When money and political expediency are prioritised over the nobler values that glue us together as human beings, it raises much deeper questions about the kind of society we have built.
But when that recognition is withheld, whether because of a technicality or political expediency, it can feel like the final insult.
And, despite their anger over Aventis and Alstom, the Germans are going along with the joint industrial policy out of political expediency.
This had the effect of shielding Henry Kissinger, a former secretary of state, from having to explain his and America's role in Cambodia's descent into madness.For all these reasons, many Cambodians have been cynical about a court shot through with expediency.
Though he tried many times and in many ways, Mr Paulson has been incapable of articulating a consistent principle beyond expediency which would justify how the bail-out was handled.More recently, the same lack of principle can be seen in the spate of large settlements.
At present none of these three possibilities looks likely, at least not in the short run.The presidential candidate, so far undeclared, who has aroused most debate and cautious hope among some of those seeking change is Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former president who now heads the Expediency Council, an influential mediating body.
