Sentence examples for expedient thing from inspiring English sources

Or because it is a politically expedient thing to do.

But, given the political fallout of poor test results, who can blame the Amityville schools for doing the expedient thing?

King pushed him, and Johnson continued: "I can't get it through, because I need the votes of a southern bloc to get these other things through… it's just not the wise and the politically expedient thing to do".

His grasp of the details of economics and finance is shaky, to say the least.But Mr McCain is also a brave politician, who has often tried to do the difficult not the expedient thing.

But just as the press gives Mr. Gore excessively high marks for doing the politically expedient thing in picking Mr. Lieberman, so it oversells Mr. Lieberman's value to Mr. Gore.

"The politically expedient thing to do would be to overlook whatever he's done," she said, adding, "We're either going to stand for something or we're no different from Kent Williams".

"They worked off five-year plans, and in many cases did short-term, expedient things that in the long term are detrimental," said Herbert M. Ryan, a spokesman for Dresser Industries, a Dallas-based oil services company that sells about $100 million a year in equipment and services to the Soviets and is hoping to sell more.

Either the company gave it a try and ran into the same problems, or decided it was more expedient to let things take their normal, slow course.

"It's expedient, just like reducing things to my race or my gender.

He says that the argument was between "enterprise" and "fairness", and that New Labour has ended this enervating quarrel by the simple expedient of declaring that both things matter after all.

It's easy to misinterpret the third question as an "out"—an excuse to do what's safe and expedient instead of the right thing.