Sentence examples for expedient in light from inspiring English sources

The current effort also is politically expedient, in light of attacks from conservative politicians over the Fed's response to the financial crisis and subsequent efforts to revive the pace of growth.

The expedient and decisive measures taken by Chrysler and Aflac in light of their recent online missteps, therefore, are commendable.

In light of the Dharma, the truths taught in those previous states are but relative or provisional truths, expedient means that are helpful only insofar as they lead one towards this final truth but which can also serve as fetters if one becomes attached to them.

In light of the intolerable daily congestion we encounter on I-95, upgrading the mass transit system would be the most expedient and logical solution.

The method appears to be fairly expedient in implementation.

Natural competition is wildly expedient in its moment-to-moment interaction.

The confinement of dissidents to psychiatric institutions has been a common expedient in recent years.

This fragmentation may be expedient in Washington, Ottawa and Berlin, where the immediate imperative is to preserve jobs.

As with Iraq, the administration was utterly expedient in promoting its tax policy.

(From then on, Steinberg supported them financially — his usual expedient in relationships whose emotional tugs imperilled his self-absorption.

Central banks resorted to this expedient in the depths of the crisis as interest rates approached zero.