Sentence examples for by expediency from inspiring English sources

Mr. Rosenberg said this case did not seem motivated by expediency.

If the Knicks were guided by expediency, this would be an easy decision.

Justified by expediency, plea bargaining "is at the heart of our criminal justice system," Professor Grant says.

It is time, past time for a broad-based movement to protest this intellectually vacant, lawless government by expediency.

The teenagers I know live by expediency and short-term pleasure: anything that interferes with this goal is swatted away.

Politicians are, well, politicians, and their charm and glad-handing is sometimes driven more by expediency and ambition and less by true friendship.

In lieu of Erhard's so-called ordoliberalism -- in which the state lays the groundwork for a functioning market economy by actively managing the legal environment -- the economic strategy pursued by Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has been haphazard, driven more by political expediency than by any underlying philosophy.

ESTELLE MORRIS, a popular former education secretary and teacher, has observed that, for the past three decades, education policy in Britain has been shaped more by political expediency than by evidence of what actually works.

Well, those who live by political expediency die by political expediency.

He is not a seat-of-the-pants pragmatist, operating by unprincipled expediency and by impulsive whim.

Republicans also used the announcement to try to reinforce their portrayal of Mr. Kerry as a candidate driven by political expediency rather than by conviction, a line of argument that polls show has sunk in among many voters.