Sentence examples for be expedient from inspiring English sources
noun
A method or means for achieving a particular result, especially when direct or efficient; a resource.
Locating sewage treatment plants, power plants, coal mines, intensive truck traffic for hauling products and waste in her community may be expedient, but now she and her child are paying for that expediency in ways that the folks who benefit from those decisions do not.
More accurate terms for the law and its introduction would be "expedient" and "chaotic".
A mid-term move to another post may well be expedient.
With Syria increasingly isolated and facing unprecedented pressure, his father, too, might have found a tactical withdrawal to be expedient.
Simulations are required to be expedient and accurate so that solutions can be successfully transferred to reality.
This fragmentation may be expedient in Washington, Ottawa and Berlin, where the immediate imperative is to preserve jobs.
Bill Clinton did what was expedient.
What is important and what is expedient?
This approach is expedient, but not robust.
