Sentence examples for expediency in from inspiring English sources

Locating sewage treatment plants, power plants, coal mines, intensive truck traffic for hauling products and waste in her community may be expedient, but now she and her child are paying for that expediency in ways that the folks who benefit from those decisions do not.

Now the party has enshrined that political greed and expediency in its fundamental declaration of principles.

Pataki tried to cloak expediency in the garb of majesty, but he hasn't been able to carry off either one.

Others attribute the decision to call an abrupt halt to the war to political expediency in Washington.

Mr. Romney may have been acting out of political expediency in creating the universal health care system in Massachusetts — it is never easy to determine his actual principles.

"They filed these charges in this court simply as a matter of expediency in order to obtain the arrest warrant," Mr. Lambino said.

The elements fell together in part for the sake of expediency and in part because, according to Wisnom, "neither Tom [Stell] or I realized the other was joking".

Alexander Cooley, an expert on the region at Barnard College in New York, says it is the price of American expediency.In 2005, after the Americans criticised Uzbekistan for massacring hundreds of civilians in Andijan in the east of the country, the Uzbek government told them to vacate their base at Karshi-Khanabad.

For reasons of political expediency and in order to maintain peace and quiet in the coalition, the Knesset is about to pass a law that offends the vast majority of world Jewry.

The end of the line literally and figuratively, Schefferville lies by a quirk of geographic or political expediency, not in the Labrador region, but just over the border in Quebec.

Instead, the public has been offered a myth of expediency wrapped in a damaging argument about the nature of justice.