Governments seeking an exit strategy may also find it convenient to play down Taliban abuses against women and girls.
The leaders of both Afghanistan and Pakistan have found it convenient to play it for political survival or to explain away their own lapses.
Both women are brilliant writers, but it's a little too convenient to "play the Catholic card" and paint Abbott and Catholicism with the same brush.
For the travelling fans of Arsenal and Chelsea it would have been more convenient to play the final at the Stade de France in Paris.
In thrillers like "Edge of Darkness," the recent remake of "The Manchurian Candidate," and the newer Bond films, they're convenient bad guys, playing the roles once occupied by Nazis, Russians, or tinpot dictators.
It is so convenient, so people are playing on the sports market and not the horses".
But the younger Mr. Ulanov, already smitten with jazz, broke both his wrists in a car accident as a teenager; this served as a convenient excuse to stop playing the violin.
"She is here playing the role of first lady, which is a convenient act of duplicity," said Mr. Alesi.
"It's a convenient way to play 'gotcha,' " said Senator Jon Corzine, Democrat of New Jersey.
Nintendo executives had also said the Wii U would prove that dedicated game systems still had a future in a world now teeming with less expensive, more convenient mobile games played on smartphones and tablets.
