The announcement on Monday that the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, had decided to support a two-year moratorium on Republican earmarks represented a particularly expedient change of heart.
Mr. Specter won the backing of the White House after his decision last year to switch parties and help provide Democrats with a 60-vote majority in the Senate, but Mr. Sestak embarked on an aggressive campaign that sought to remind voters of what he portrayed as his opponent's politically expedient change.
Hanns Ludin joined the SA paramilitary organization in 1931; survived the 1934 Night of the Long Knives, in which Hitler's potential political rivals were massacred; and openly celebrated his Führer's birthday in April 1945, at a time when more than a few die-hard Nazis, glimpsing the Allies' armies over the horizon, underwent an expedient change of heart.
The assessment of on-target drug effects and the timely detection of the development of resistance are key components in the personalization of treatment, in order to make expedient, appropriate changes in treatment regimes.
Ralph M. Engel, a Manhattan estate-planning lawyer, said that while a surviving joint owner may be able to renounce the interest owned by a deceased joint owner for tax purposes, it is generally more expedient to change the form of title ahead of time if estate taxes will be an issue.
The House of Hanover — four Georges, one William (the fourth of that name), and Victoria — begat, via Prince Albert, the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, which begat, via an expedient 1917 name change prompted by anti-German hysteria, the House of Windsor.
From climate change to expedient postal services, governments are required to act with transparency and diligence.
It is the expedient outcome of an administrative change that partly explains its neutral character.
His disheartened supporters are beginning to see that "Change We Can Believe In" is really "Change When It's Expedient".
And all bow before the memory of the one among us who believed most ardently in the power of ideas and who, indeed, made of his own ideas a force that, more than once, undermined our certitudes, exposed facile consolations and expedient accommodations, and, yes, managed to change, a bit, the order of things.
