The phrase "as practical expedient" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where a simpler or more efficient solution is being proposed or acknowledged, often in legal, financial, or business discussions.
Example: "In determining the best approach to the project, we decided to treat the situation as a practical expedient to streamline our processes."
Alternatives: "as a convenient solution" or "as a pragmatic approach".
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".
However, some practical expedients mitigating the adverse consequences of signal aggregation can be envisioned.
Mr. Sikkema has learned that a strong metaphor can be as expedient as meeting the bottom line.
Gingrich regards it as practical.
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.
"Everything is functional primarily, and then aesthetic within the limits of what is functional as well as expedient," he says.
It also raises a central question for someone seeking a pressure cooker of a job that demands leadership and constant decisions: is he practical or expedient, an ideologue or a pragmatist?
BiH suffers as much from expedient narratives rationalizing neglect as much as the mistakes of the recent past.
