(From then on, Steinberg supported them financially — his usual expedient in relationships whose emotional tugs imperilled his self-absorption.
Besides, one long-standing relationship, be it expedient alliance or love crush, appears to need careful resolution and a tender, forgiving touch.
They regarded those sorts of relationships as politically expedient, and operationally quite sensible.
Immediately before the invasion of Iraq, Chalabi was living in a gated villa in Tehran that he had persuaded the U.S. to purchase as a satellite branch of the I.N.C. Chalabi claimed that his relationship with Tehran was purely expedient.
He shifts positions when it's convenient (campaign finance), he removes himself from relationships when they're no longer politically expedient (the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr ., and he avoids taking potentially controversial positions (wiretapping).
While site selection was expedient, there were often delays in sample response times due to both relationship building between agencies, groups, and producers and logistical time constraints.
There is evidence to support expedient care for patients following traumatic injury; however, no study has examined the relationship between outcomes in patients transported to different types of hospital facilities and the amount of bleeding.
With limitations on available training budgets, it would seem expedient to focus primarily on those tasks falling into the categories of greatest need, especially establishing a relationship with patients, designing systems for patient monitoring/observation, etc., which are essential components of clinical practice.
Since grooming internal successors can be difficult, he suggested directors develop relationships with external candidates who may be able to come in and take over in an expedient manner.
