We have not fully accepted that development by way of the expedient purchasing power theory, which is based solely on the distribution of wealth through the accumulation of public debt, is a sham.
Military emergency makes rampant executive power expedient: the approval of water-boarding; the surveillance of civilian communications; the invasion of Iraq.
Phillips had just spent the better part of a half hour on a technical screed, describing the merits and demerits of LED tape and expedient arrangements of power and video cables, yet his reply was simple: "The Presets are awesome.
Become a Trot, jettison everything you once professed to believe when it becomes expedient, ingratiate yourself with power, fight for policies such as university top-up fees that might have prevented the young Alan escaping his own working-class roots, and flounce out of government to make some dough when the going gets sticky.
The operation of this stage allows fairly accurate control of the sample temperature in the range from 250 to 300 K (depending on the ambient temperature inside the diffractometer enclosure) by the simple expedient of adjusting the power supplied to the Peltier element.
"What makes Mr. Baitz an exciting writer," Frank Rich wrote in his review of the original production for The New York Times, "is not so much his familiar indictment of the cynicism and racism that can attend the expedient pursuit of capital and power but the humanity, lacerating wit and theatricality with which he levels his charge".
But power-sharing deals, while expedient, can create incentives among warlords, their political patrons and profiteers to sustain lawlessness.
Like the tsars, today's Russia sees no contradiction between fighting certain forms of Islam in the Caucasus and shoring up that faith, in return for guarantees of loyalty, in other parts of its domininion.And since Catherine's time, many imperial powers have made similarly expedient calculations.
President Roosevelt returned from the Yalta Conference in 1945 to tell a joint session of Congress that his plans for the United Nations, "...ought to spell the end of the system of unilateral action, the exclusive alliances, the spheres of influence, the balances of power, and all the expedients that have been tried for centuries - and have always failed.
Giving up on the public option might be expedient.
