Sentence examples for expedient that from inspiring English sources

Conservatives say the troika was a necessary expedient that has proven its worth, but should be replaced over time.

Or perhaps a few show-off greens will resort to an expedient that was seen in wartime Britain huge gas bags on top of their vehicles.

During the Second World War, some economists hailed the introduction of price controls and central planning; Keynes viewed this policy as a temporary expedient that shouldn't be sustained.

The ADB renewed the donors' long-standing appeal to the government to solve some of its economic problems by exporting natural gas, an expedient that has so far been prevented by politics.

If it involves a system of belief at any point, it is a simple expedient that is either adapted to need or abandoned when surplus to the fundamental requirement of obtaining and maintaining power.

Long accustomed to the firm and frequent pronouncements of the Prime Minister and Chancellor Callaghan that devaluation was an unmentionable word and an unthinkable expedient that would bring all kinds of evil in its wake, many people felt bewildered when they found that overnight all this had changed.

Both, in consequence, were eager to refine and regularize certain desperate expedients that had been adopted by their rough military predecessors to conduct the affairs of the Roman state.

Oddly, the political flourish involved in the Iraqi leader's televised walkabout was followed today by a reversion to one of the expedients that had led American intelligence analysts -- and many Iraqis -- to conclude that Mr. Hussein might have been killed or incapacitated by the missile strike.

For the right and optimal use of this resource, in addition to the resort to some simple designing expedients that can be brought back to the practice of "building in a workmanlike manner", it is possible to adopt specific devices able to improve the sunlight captation.

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.

Mehmed therefore turned to a number of financial expedients that achieved their immediate objectives, but at the cost of grave economic and social difficulties.