Sentence examples for expediency through from inspiring English sources

The Washington Post's Dan Zak describes something rather tawdrier: The elevators — with their dumbwaiter size and ratty, Cabernet-colored carpeting — provide expediency through exclusivity.

Such federations are human creations, established either for expediency or through expansionism, frequently artificial: sometimes so much so that, as in the case of Yugoslavia, they simply fall apart.

The city's designers may have had their plans, but it is the deep streak of pragmatism or, better, expediency that runs through so much of life here that drives things.

In 1975, the US Chamber of Commerce criticized the passage of environmental laws by Congress, including the Clean Air and Water acts, saying "But they went ahead anyway in the spirit of political expediency to ramrod through measures that would affect millions of people and billions of dollars..."...

According to Johnson, his old department has since been reduced to "three people buried in work" and he blames the Obama administration for bowing to political expediency instead of following through on his research.

This had the effect of shielding Henry Kissinger, a former secretary of state, from having to explain his and America's role in Cambodia's descent into madness.For all these reasons, many Cambodians have been cynical about a court shot through with expediency.

Whether through political expediency or a looming realisation that the shifting sands of global football politics and Westminster threatened to leave it isolated if Scudamore did not engage with issues around financial controls and home-grown players, the Premier League has decided to play ball.

Now that President Bush, either through principle or expediency, has changed his mind about Condoleezza Rice's testimony before the 9/11 commission (front page, March 31), may we expect no more commercials and innuendoes about John Kerry's "flip-flops"?

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.

The answer is through a combination of political expediency, inept tactics and fumbled diplomacy.

This raises the possibility that limited instances of deviation from BQS may arise through evolution as a short-term expediency allowing survival in a changing environment.