We have largely eliminated slavery as an institution, for example, not because it was financially expedient (in fact it was probably costly to the beneficiaries of that system to give it up), but because it was the ethical thing to do.
On the other hand, Clinton's more ardent supporters, those few who were there at the beginning, argue that Democrats have badly miscast him as an expedient strategist, when in fact he was a visionary and a modernizer.
Therefore, when considering AD pathogenesis, it is perhaps expedient to consider the fact that what we now consider AD actually appears to consist of multiple pathogenically different Alzheimer's diseases.
Thereby, things present themselves not as indifferent givens, facts, but as meaningful: salient, expedient, obstructive, and so on.
In fact, when it was politically expedient to do so, he reassured his audiences that he did not endorse citizenship for blacks or believe in the equality of the races.
In our opinion, the use of combined ROC curves, rather than being an artefactual expedient, has the merit to highlight the fact that, in heterogeneous and multifactorial conditions as ASD are, only a (correct) combination of peripheral parameters may be able to maximize the predictive value of the tests.
Deborah Avant, a political-science professor at George Washington University, says these facts can make it more politically expedient to deploy contractors than to deploy soldiers or reservists.
But this is of little help for the expedient under consideration, since the disagreement-in-nonmoral-fact response apparently requires that one can disentangle factual and moral disagreement.
We talked about the situation at the University of Alabama, where the Board of Trustees seemed determined to resort to any expedient to bar Miss Lucy from the campus (as, in fact, it subsequently did).
Those who oppose Murray's conclusions will undoubtedly consider them "simplistic," since elaborate and even convoluted arguments are considered signs of sophistication, rather than desperate expedients to try to salvage a position contrary to plain facts and plain logic.
In fact, in areas of New Spain, Central America and Quito, governors found it expedient to leave the elected constitutional ayuntamientos in place for several years in order to prevent conflict with the local society.
