Sentence examples for expedient an from inspiring English sources

Because political and financial reasons made expedient an attack on the monasteries, Cromwell was appointed the king's vicar general with powers to visit and reform all monastic institutions.

Because political and financial reasons made expedient an attack on the monasteries, Cromwell was appointed the King's vicar general with powers to visit and reform all monastic institutions.

These are a few of the people who have fueled the Kerry fund-raising machine, one of the most effective and expedient an American candidacy has ever produced.

It also raises a central question for someone seeking a pressure cooker of a job that demands leadership and constant decisions: is he practical or expedient, an ideologue or a pragmatist?

It was a resort to the classic diversionary expedient, a flashy foreign adventure, of the dictator in trouble at home.

I hereby request that you remove or disable access to this material as it appears on your service in as expedient a fashion as possible.

"Devolution is portrayed as an expedient, not a principle.

The summoning of knights and burgesses in 1265 was an expedient, not a piece of farsighted constitutional planning".

Lastly, there is no such thing as global Islamic solidarity--jihad is an expedient, not a belief system.

The creation of Areva was not a solution; it was a band-aid to hide a wound, an expedient to delay a painful restructuring.

So coalition should be seen not – as both Conservative and Labour would prefer – as an emergency expedient for a single term.