A website, "No to 55%", has been set up. "Introducing an 'enhanced majority' for confidence votes in the Commons may be politically expedient, but it's not democratic.
It was these values that led him, as a newly-appointed judge in the 1940s, to devise a legal doctrine which lawyers regarded as revolutionary, but which performed the elementary moral task of holding people to their promises - something which the commercially-oriented common law had found it expedient not to do.
And once the Chappes' optical telegraph had been replaced by the more democratic and versatile electric version, frugal customers hit on the similarly ingenious expedient of using economical abbreviations for common messages, like "gmlet" for "give my love to" — texting avant la lettre.
Divorce was discussed, but then a bond was probably sworn between the lords present to remove Darnley by other means: "It was thought expedient and most profitable for the common wealth ... that such a young fool and proud tyrant should not reign or bear rule over them; ... that he should be put off by one way or another; and whosoever should take the deed in hand or do it, they should defend".
The new communication technologies and expanding businesses of the late 19th century, however, had created a need for expedient, legible correspondence, and so the Sholes and Glidden and its contemporaries soon became common office fixtures.
A tiny, awfully uncharitable part of me wonders momentarily if that might be an instance of the same expedient moral revisionism which saw the 49-year-old Farage recently declare tax avoiders "the common enemy", only for it to be revealed that he'd once been at it himself with an Isle of Man trust.
This article investigates expedient methods to establish airborne infection isolation areas using a commercially available portable filtration unit and common hardware supplies.
My earnest hope is that senators take that time to reflect on the importance of this process to our democracy -- not what's expedient, not what's happening at the moment, what does this mean for our institutions, for our common life -- the stakes, the consequences, the seriousness of the job we all swore an oath to do.
In poor countries, vitamin supplements —a common expedient reach less than half of those who most need them, the rural poor.
