Sentence examples for expedient the from inspiring English sources

As a last expedient the polders, or low-lying areas, were flooded, and William, with his few unseasoned troops, was left to defend the "water line".

As an expedient, the pronoia system had advantages both for the state and for the military aristocracy who were its main beneficiaries.

Military emergency makes rampant executive power expedient: the approval of water-boarding; the surveillance of civilian communications; the invasion of Iraq.

The European Commission, egged on by the French and others, has produced many daft proposals to regulate it, as well as suggesting a financial-transactions tax.But if the politics was expedient, the tactics and the diplomacy were not.

Anyone might be indentured and shackled and sold on an auction block, the color black having been a temporary expedient, the idea of a slave class itself being the underlying premise.

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).

For Washington today, these are the easy steps to take, the expected ones, the expedient ones, the predictable ones.

The expedient of the rollers, like that of the words that Wool proceeded to paint, suggests the ledges to which a rock climber clings by his fingernails.

A financial expedient on the part of the Revolutionary government, the increasing issuance of the assignats resulted in inflation.

For the first type, it must be shown that restricting the rights is "necessary or expedient in the interest" of the grounds.

If that is the politically expedient solution, the president may well conclude, so be it.