Sentence examples for expediency rules from inspiring English sources

He added, "I think the Home Secretary will listen to what the council says, but, at the end, of the day I think political expediency rules the roost".

It won't discuss the case, but in depositions Hilton Chief Financial Officer Matthew Hart makes it clear that expediency ruled.

In 2000, after reformists swept the legislature, the unelected Expediency Council ruled that lawmakers could no longer investigate agencies that reported to the supreme leader.

There is a warning here for America and the Western world in general against allowing, for reasons of national interest or social expediency, the rule of law to be abridged or set aside or any group to be denied full respect on grounds of sex, race or political status.

Special interests rule, expediency triumphs, congressmen are indicted.

When it comes to oil, expediency is the rule, and a marvelously adaptable one.

To this day, it is impossible to definitively assign responsibility for the suffering of millions, not least because decisions were made out of political expediency rather than rule of law.

It is not necessary that we should enter upon an examination of the reason or expediency of the rule which exempts a sovereign state from prosecution in a court of justice at the suit of individuals.

Others see it as the triumph of expediency over principle.

They've placed expediency over principle.

From his relatives and his teachers, the future emperor absorbed influences from two basically antagonistic schools: the Daoists, inclined to the legalist philosophy favouring an autocratic ruler guided by the rules of expediency, and the Confucianists, who sought through rituals and other means to check the growing power of the Han monarchs.