Sentence examples for expedient not from inspiring English sources

"Devolution is portrayed as an expedient, not a principle.

It was these values that led him, as a newly-appointed judge in the 1940s, to devise a legal doctrine which lawyers regarded as revolutionary, but which performed the elementary moral task of holding people to their promises - something which the commercially-oriented common law had found it expedient not to do.

The summoning of knights and burgesses in 1265 was an expedient, not a piece of farsighted constitutional planning".

Lastly, there is no such thing as global Islamic solidarity--jihad is an expedient, not a belief system.

Kościuszko concluded that Napoleon had created the Duchy of Warsaw in 1807 only as an expedient, not because he supported Polish sovereignty.

Against this, scholars like Bernard Lanne have argued that there never was any sort of formal agreement, and that Tombalbaye had found it expedient not to mention the occupation of a part of his country.

If this expedient will not apply, however, the questioner is not quite helpless.

Just doesn't seem to miss out very often with the bat – via the simple expedient of not missing many balls with the bat.

Some people say they like it because you get to stay inside and watch box sets, but what they don't realize is that you can also do this in summer by the simple expedient of not worrying too much if everyone thinks you're a really depressing person to be around.

For Jamie Smith, this comes via the simple expedient of not saying anything.

The film was barely professionally reviewed in the UK, achieved by the simple expedient of not offering any press screenings.