Sentence examples for expedient since from inspiring English sources

It is politically expedient, since lower tax revenues can be used to justify sharp cuts in entitlement programs, whose beneficiaries tend to vote democratic.

Such a community is a sub-set of the human race; there is no need for a community comprehending the whole human race indeed a world community would not be expedient, since it would be too difficult to govern.

Miliband did not hide his left-ish opinions in the leadership contest and if anything has moved to a more expedient position since, in an attempt to keep his party united – pragmatic contortions that make all leaders internally unpopular.

The program was probably designed so that it could be made public at an expedient moment, since the centrifuge-based system allows for progress to be made toward weapons manufacture without technically being in violation of International Atomic Energy Agency guidelines.

But this is of little help for the expedient under consideration, since the disagreement-in-nonmoral-fact response apparently requires that one can disentangle factual and moral disagreement.

This seemed to be an expedient method of analysis since the Nishizono (2010) model fit the data well.

Those may be the most corrupt of all, since their expedient "make no waves" mentality was at the very least amoral, which is another way of saying immoral.

It's clear in these disputes that the value of their friendship had long since surpassed the expedient advantages each had gained in knowing the other.

Both pro- and anti-Europeans appeared to see in the referendum an expedient behind which they could unite, since it offered both the prospect of a decisive resolution of the issue, at least for this generation.

Various other designs have been tried since, but all were seen as temporary expedients intended to tide a patient over until the real thing became available from a human donor.That may be about to change.

The distinction between dutiful and expedient actions is not an empirical classification since actions which conform to the principle of utility could also be instances of the principle of duty, and moral philosophers would want to distinguish between such principles even in circumstances where prioritising one principle over the other would make no difference to the action one has to perform.