The phrase "expedient decision" is grammatically correct and is commonly used in written English.
It refers to a decision that is practical, efficient, and beneficial in achieving a specific goal or outcome. Example: After careful consideration, the company's board of directors made the expedient decision to merge with a larger corporation in order to increase profits and expand their market share.
Mr. Paterson, meanwhile, may now be able to cast his exit from the race — to focus on the budget, debt and other pressing state issues — as "a considerably more noble decision than a merely expedient decision," Mr. Birdsell said.
The dominant environmental risk assessment methodology has been developed to answer basic questions to enable expedient decision making.
Those critics, from both the left and the right, accused Congress of making a short-term, politically expedient decision instead of dealing with the bigger problems.
Let's be careful not to simply make politically expedient decisions.
Rather, she has begun to act like any other politician: single-mindedly pursuing an agenda, making expedient decisions with one eye on electoral politics, the other on kingmakers in Naypyidaw and the domestic political economy.
With muscular foundation trusts vying for hegemony over territories and services, it is tempting to split the difference and railroad through expedient decisions built on flimsy data which give everyone something to take home.
But the rush to get good grades – and the fact that our grades heavily influence what we can and can't do – means that some students make hurried, expedient decisions, which may not be for the best in the long-term.
People in power tend to be generalists whose expedient decisions often reflect widespread skepticism -- even distrust -- of specialist knowledge.
But a lifetime of this reactive activity can also lead to an unpredictable corporate culture and a trajectory littered with "one-offs" and expedient decisions.
Explanations for the intractability of antibiotic overuse for acute bronchitis include diagnostic uncertainty regarding the presence of alternative antibiotic-responsive illnesses (e.g., pneumonia), patient expectations in a societal context of consumer-oriented medicine and waning professional sovereignty among physicians, and time demands that favor expedient management decisions [ 20, 21].
Though her new husband is gentle and kind, Gertrude finds him oddly impersonal: there is something "pat and coldly expedient" about his decision to marry her, and after he succeeds her father on the throne, he grows even more remote.
