Sentence examples for expedient on from inspiring English sources

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A financial expedient on the part of the Revolutionary government, the increasing issuance of the assignats resulted in inflation.

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Fostering students' motivation for and commitment to doing the "right"; taking personal responsibility for acting on one's judgment; prioritizing the principled path over the expedient one.

There, she earned a place on the university football team "by the simple expedient of standing on the field and refusing to move off, since there wasn't a women's competition".

Sayle wins this argument by the simple expedient of being on first, and cannot resist saying that Carrott died a "terrible death" with his alternative punchline, "Basingstoke".

In the end, Japanese engineers hit on the expedient of digging a parallel drainage tunnel the entire length of the main tunnel.

The expedient of selling space on the players' bodies — plastering their uniforms with corporate logos from neck to navel — is less than fully satisfactory.

And, as well as being workers who cut cabbages and painted walls (displacing some British labourers by the simple expedient of turning up on time), they proved to be human beings who settled down and had children.

This first competitive appearance outside the US for Shelby was memorable: he and Duncan finished 10th, despite a carburettor fire during a pit stop, which had to be extinguished by the simple expedient of Duncan urinating on the engine.

Indeed, Salmon points out that, since the application of every law involves a tacit extremal (or "ceteris paribus") clause, any law can be protected from refutation by discounting disconfirming evidence on the expedient of claiming that, because the clause was not satisfied, the law is still correct, which is another way to accent the source of Hempel's concern (Salmon 1989, 84 85).

Meanwhile, the obvious expedient of cutting back on water consumption finds little support in thirsty California, which will watch the CAP go dry before it gets serious about meaningful system-wide conservation.

In order to prevent this, when applying the gear to the Pacifics, Gresley fell back on the expedient of shortening valve travel even though that choked the exhaust at speed, was responsible for the heavy coal consumption, and negated most of the advantages gained by the locomotive's revolutionary design.

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