Sentence examples for a temporary expedient from inspiring English sources

Human rights abuses are almost always justified as a temporary expedient prompted by a security crisis.

This was a temporary expedient, the authority says, but even so it did not inspire confidence.

A truss is usually a temporary expedient and is seldom used as a substitute for surgical care.

Although this was initially a temporary expedient, by the 15th century it had become a permanent institution.

During the Second World War, some economists hailed the introduction of price controls and central planning; Keynes viewed this policy as a temporary expedient that shouldn't be sustained.

He remained a conservative republican, however, viewing economic controls as a temporary expedient and opposing social welfare measures favoured by the Parisian lower classes.

The rule of a city-state by one man was no longer seen as a strange and temporary expedient but as a normal aspect of life.

The argument then is that exclusion from a given area of danger, while somewhat more sweeping than a curfew regulation, is of the same nature, a temporary expedient made necessary by a sudden emergency.

"Up until now, the giving of food and the giving of supplies for the temporary expedient is very, very moral and very loving," Winchell said.

Various other designs have been tried since, but all were seen as temporary expedients intended to tide a patient over until the real thing became available from a human donor.That may be about to change.

But Rome regarded these as temporary expedients, and none outlasted the Flavian Period (69 96).