These difficulties included a "periodical functional incapacity for public business" (menstruation) and, should the President be married, "the pleasures and responsibilities incident" to women (pregnancy and nursing), unless she were to "have criminal recourse" to certain "expedients now too fashionable" (contraception and abortion).
Locating sewage treatment plants, power plants, coal mines, intensive truck traffic for hauling products and waste in her community may be expedient, but now she and her child are paying for that expediency in ways that the folks who benefit from those decisions do not.
But Kathryn E. Freed, a term-limited Council member from Manhattan who is running for the office of public advocate, said last night that "it would be hypocritical for me, even if it's expedient, to now come out against term limits, because it's really going to be a chaotic system".
He issued a statement noting that Mr. Kerry "voted for the war" but turned against it "when it was politically expedient" and now has his aides "saying that his vote to authorize force wasn't really a vote to go to war".
David Bellos writes in his introduction that the novel also doubles as a study of the "mentality of siege" under Hoxha – but the accusation will probably always stick that Kadare's recent fiction only condemns the Hoxha regime because it's now expedient to do so.
It is therefore expedient to act now before it is too late.
While it may have been politically expedient, candidate – and now President – Trump was absolutely wrong when he said that "trade reform and the negotiation of great trade deals is the quickest way to bring our jobs back to our country".
Although the court, based in The Hague, is not expected to act until the end of the year at the earliest, deferring the indictment is "the most expedient thing to do now," said Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, the president of Tanzania and current chairman of the African Union.
On Tuesday the finance minister, who detailed the drive in a letter to eurozone leaders, said he hoped the EU would wrap up negotiations over a second rescue package of emergency loans – now deemed expedient if Athens is to stave off economic collapse – by the end of August, before it receives its next tranche of emergency aid on 15 September.
