Sentence examples for based on expediency and from inspiring English sources

I firmly believe your decisions have been short sighted and based on expediency and political considerations.

This retraction may have been based on expediency and was in keeping with the recognized practice of taqīyah (precautionary dissimulation).

In Kenya, politicians often switch parties based on expediency, and so now many parliamentarians are scratching their heads trying to get around the legal requirement that — gasp — politicians serve the parties from which they were elected.

He was particularly concerned with tone color: he advised that "The player should cultivate a seismograph-like sensitivity to brusque changes of tone colour caused by fingerings based on expediency and comfort rather than the composer's manifest or probable intentions".

This tenet, based on expediency more than principle, has shielded all members, notably Indonesia, from criticism from their neighbours.

Russian historiography characterizes that agreement as the reunification of Ukraine with Russia; the Ukrainians interpret it as an alliance based on expediency.

That's what happens when you have a policy based on expediency rather than principle". Senator Mitchell went on the trip to the Soviet Union with Senator Daschle.

"Your critics charge you make decisions based on political expediency and not core conviction.

The people around Putin are basing decisions on expediency and self-preservation.

The grand jury's main argument in favor of the indictment system is based on cost and expediency.

But too often the changes introduced were ill-judged and based on financial expediency or a vision no longer entirely in tune with what its own staff believed the World Service should be doing.