Sentence examples for expedient tool from inspiring English sources

But the police have also long used it as an expedient tool for suppressing dissent and incarcerating government critics, petitioners, whistle-blowers, rights activists, members of underground Christian churches or banned religious sects, and others deemed a "threat" to public order.

The empirical equation can be used as an expedient tool for characterizing airfield matting behavior.

Game theory is used as an expedient tool to ensure optimum coexistence of users with highly conflicting interests.

This analytical framework consists of a series of actualistic experiments designed to determine those variables useful for distinguishing between modifications produced via pre-mortem and post-depositional processes that can damage molluscan shell, and damage produced via use as an expedient tool.

Eckhart knows the limits of rational discourse, but also understands that reason is an expedient tool to draw the greenhorns into the realm of higher consciousness.

In order to identify those shell valves which have been used as expedient tools, analysts must be able to identify and distinguish between pre-mortem and post-depositional modifications, and use-wear from tool use.

We demonstrate that an analytical framework consisting of an analysis of shell area loss, shell fracture paths, and use-wear can be successfully applied to archaeological samples to confidently distinguish between those valves which have been used as expedient tools, and those which have not.

The identification of expedient bivalve tools recovered from archaeological deposits is currently hindered by a lack of analytical frameworks.

Here, we present an analytical framework for the identification of expedient bivalve tools made from Polymesoda (=Geloina) coaxans valves recovered from Australian archaeological sites.

The archaeological record of central California contains a rich variety of ground stone milling tools from highly expedient cobble tools to large ornate mortars and finely finished pestles more than half a meter in length.

While I hope to generate at least one or two interviews from the first two groups, I know that the most effective (and expedient) job search tool is someone going to bat for you on the inside.