Instead, I argue, we see a tactical psychopathy at work, in which the adult soldier's flattened moral choices and fluid political affiliations become expedients to ensure his survival.
His going became expedient.
Then, in the games, it becomes expedient to pretend she's in love with Peeta – expedient but deeply confusing.
Become a Trot, jettison everything you once professed to believe when it becomes expedient, ingratiate yourself with power, fight for policies such as university top-up fees that might have prevented the young Alan escaping his own working-class roots, and flounce out of government to make some dough when the going gets sticky.
But there is little evidence that he acquired those interests until it became expedient to have them... Gore may be a bit of a drone and he has been known to pander, but he is also a rare phenomenon — a politician who formulated a series of substantive ideas about a difficult subject and then put them down in a book without the aid of a ghostwriter.
In this chapter Locke, in effect, describes the evolution of the state of nature to the point where it becomes expedient for those in it to found a civil government.
Since then, it has become an expedient but far from indispensable tactic.
But unbidden, he acknowledged the danger of the perception that he had become politically expedient.
Though his term isn't up until 2013, his approval rating has dropped to thirty per cent, an all-time low, and he could lose his parliamentary majority if deputies start defecting en masse — which may become politically expedient.
While it has become politically expedient to malign and scapegoat immigrants, Mr. Trump and Republican lawmakers across the country recognize that finding a way to excise them systematically from payrolls would have a crippling effect on several industries.
