Sentence examples for expedient principle from inspiring English sources

Altogether, our findings suggest that causal molecular mechanisms provide for an expedient principle to gain further insight into the network of human diseases.

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

We welcome the coming referendum as a matter of democratic principle, expedient though it is for the Conservatives.

And Roger Thornhill, the protagonist of Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest," said that advertisements operate on the principle of "expedient exaggeration".

Here is the qualitative departure from the second Bush's preoccupation with unilateralism, preemption, and expedient suspension of Constitutional principles.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Allen said devolution has to be "a principle, not an expedient we allow when we've got a problem" that must apply throughout all the nations of the union.

When a Canadian-convened international commission examined the concept in answer to Annan's question, they set out "precautionary principles" to prevent expedient invocation of humanitarianism to justify military aggression.

For this is one (rare) instance where Mr Clinton has put principle above the politically expedient.

The truth is not only an effective principle, it is also an expedient weapon in the war of public opinion.

The devolution of power from Westminster to other parts of the Union is a principle, and not simply a political expedient.

In contemporary political parlance, "principle" means a knee jerk, politically expedient rubric (e.g. taxes = bad; extra punishment for criminals = good).