Sentence examples for dictates of expediency from inspiring English sources

Simons accepted some inequality as "unavoidable or essential for motivation," but said it should be "tolerated only so far as the dictates of expediency are clear".

Precise connections between geopolitical events and new theological developments provide a fascinating field for speculation, but they are very hard to prove or falsify.Sir Diarmaid's assumption is that Christian doctrine was bent and twisted, and that certain church fathers were airbrushed out of history and then posthumously half-rehabilitated, according to the dictates of imperial expediency.

And of expediency.

It was totally out of expediency.

The whiff of malfeasance, of expediency, breaks the unspoken covenant.

Others see it as the triumph of expediency over principle.

At times, his language is just a matter of expediency.

But that smacks of expediency being allowed to trump principle.

For reasons of expediency, Mr Rafsanjani is a liberaliser, and he is good at clearing logjams.

The pattern of behaviour speaks of something deeper than the demands of expediency.

Others, though, complained that the event sacrificed artistic potency for the sake of expediency.