Sentence examples for expedient as from inspiring English sources

It may be that the decision to give Cherkaoui Flanders was an expedient as well as an artistic choice.

Mr. Sikkema has learned that a strong metaphor can be as expedient as meeting the bottom line.

The shift of public spending into the second quarter would be politically expedient, as beneficiaries are more likely to remember it on June 25 when they vote.

"I don't think whatever he's doing intends to be offensive, but to be as expedient as possible considering the many, many challenges he is facing in many, many areas".

The sudden marriage of such a seeming odd couple could wind up being seen as so politically expedient as to seem almost unprincipled, playing into the public's worst perceptions that campaigns are about power and winning, not big ideas.

Expedient as it might have seemed for Mr. Domingo to share that "Ring" with his own company in Los Angeles, he opted to start fresh there with the German painter and theater artist Achim Freyer, at a price tag of $32 million.

The faith of locker-room physiologists in such expedients as deep breathing, Turkish baths, and furious exercise is wholly without basis.

Supply-side measures have worked so far, but it will be an irony if people learn more dangerous expedients as a result.

It also led to (or perhaps permitted the perpetuation of) such expedients as the transformation of the circus clown into a tolerated means for exhibiting and venting public exasperation with the regime.

Benjamin was, rather, a materialist in the literal sense—he remained too much of a sensual aesthete to slough off to economic abstractions the actual stuff of the superstructure and of experience itself but he didn't avoid revealing his financial frustrations and his wily expedients as an impecunious collector (including a morning-after visit to a pawnshop).

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