Sentence examples for expedient to do from inspiring English sources

As a senator, Sessions had called for a special prosecutor when it was politically expedient to do so.

From what can be pieced together, it seems that Angola was awarded the 2010 African Nations Cup because it was politically expedient to do so.

"The job is too important to do something expedient, to do something just because there is a vacancy there," he said.

She was already under huge political pressure to do that and Fukushima was just the trigger she found politically expedient to do it".

They were abandoned to a system that was unfair and illegitimate, because it was politically expedient to do so; we now know that to be an unambiguous truth.

Cameron is an exceptionally competent sub-aristocrat from Berkshire, who never sought out the company of a poor person until it was politically expedient to do so; his face, by contrast, speaks of unblemished wealth.

Apart from those with integrity, like Jeremy Corbyn, they supported Blair because it was politically expedient so to do.

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".

"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".

Congress decided that the most expedient thing to do was to throw every kind of expenditure one could think of, short-term and long-term, into a single bill, because the public was willing to spend the money right then and the legislative politics required addressing the demands of disparate constituencies.

Although the court, based in The Hague, is not expected to act until the end of the year at the earliest, deferring the indictment is "the most expedient thing to do now," said Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, the president of Tanzania and current chairman of the African Union.