Sentence examples for as a practical expedient from inspiring English sources

Second, it posits that American military power must be the operating framework for this new strategy — not just as a practical expedient, temporary and unavoidable, but as an inherently valuable and permanent ideal.

Note that in the UK, it is necessary to meet certain criteria percentages for the different components for the category 'mixed' as a practical expedient dictated by the National Health Service Breast Screening Programme (NHSBSP), but these rules underestimate the number of lesions that have some element of mixed morphology.

Last year I attended a conference in the US about security and intelligence in the so-called war on terror and was astonished to hear one of the more belligerent participants, who as far as I could tell had nothing but contempt for religion, strongly argue that as a purely practical expedient, politicians and the media must stop referring to "Muslim terrorism".

Despite certain tours de force by modern artists — the most graceful and gracious being Matisse's Vence Chapel, with its succinct linear motifs — stained glass now serves mainly as a practical and pretty expedient for places where daylight is wanted, but not a view, or where prettiness is an end in itself.

Rove sees winning as a practical matter.

As a practical matter, probably not.

As a practical tool it is vital.

"As a practical matter, nobody owns it".

As a practical matter, it's obvious.

However, some practical expedients mitigating the adverse consequences of signal aggregation can be envisioned.

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