As the southernmost point of China, the island proved a particularly expedient place to send those who had irritated the emperor, its isolation ensuring that political ripples back to the mainland would be few.
Despite certain tours de force by modern artists — the most graceful and gracious being Matisse's Vence Chapel, with its succinct linear motifs — stained glass now serves mainly as a practical and pretty expedient for places where daylight is wanted, but not a view, or where prettiness is an end in itself.
Curiously, loud partyers and loud talkers, who together elicit half of all noise complaints in New York, aren't mentioned in the new City Council bill, perhaps because it's more politically expedient to place the blame on inanimate objects.
One of the 1st Division's Military Police told me that his superiors were preventing radical inflation of the prostitutes' fees by the simple expedient of placing establishments off limits — or threatening to — if they got too expensive.
We need no reminding that the wrongs have continued across time and place, by different and terrible means, and continue to make clear that the aspirations reflected in the trial's opening would not easily be fulfilled by the simple expedient of putting in place new laws and institutions.
With a focus on the theological angle of these arbitration councils and not on the complex legal arguments made by both sides, what seems most likely to happen is that it will become what the government seemed to want it to be in the first place: a politically expedient non-solution to a complex issue.
As for Japan, it controls the demand for nursing-home places by the simple expedient of refusing to let into a nursing home any elderly person who has a living relation.
Here the alien parasites, known as souls, have made the world a more joyous and harmonious place through the simple expedient of replacing our own natures with theirs, which by contrast are "compassionate, patient, honest, virtuous and full of love".
The two omics scores analyzed here, indeed, were constructed without this expedient, and optimized to take the place of the clinical predictors rather than focusing on the added predictive value of the omics data.
The rationale for this filter is that any transcript with such a low coverage cannot be properly assembled in the first place, so it is expedient to remove them from the assembly, along with many low coverage contigs created by spurious errors.
