Sentence examples for accepting as expedient from inspiring English sources

The progressives tended toward a broader construction, accepting as expedient such measures as they found harmonious with Scripture or not in conflict with it.

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

Londoners are willing to suspend disbelief when they see Beck's "diagram," because it is in their interest to accept its inaccuracies as expedient design ploys, while the New Yorkers who attacked Mr. Vignelli's map felt deeply skeptical about it.

The worse kind of "stuck" comes from accepting the (short-term) expedient move in a difficult job market instead of pushing through and getting your "ticket punched" by industry.

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.

Converting to Christianity, welcoming missionaries, and relinquishing more than forty male concubines for monogamy emerge as expedient moves.

I hereby request that you remove or disable access to this material as it appears on your service in as expedient a fashion as possible.

It is this technology which European colonizers misinterpreted as expedient and insubstantial.