Good order and authority are now necessary… We must have recourse to the old Roman expedient in times of confusion and choose a dictator".
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".
A decision has been taken that it would be politically and commercially expedient for England to play in Ireland again.
There, she earned a place on the university football team "by the simple expedient of standing on the field and refusing to move off, since there wasn't a women's competition".
The film was barely professionally reviewed in the UK, achieved by the simple expedient of not offering any press screenings.
It has been floated, he says, that the UK could escape its obligations without leaving the treaty by the simple expedient of insisting that parliament be required to approve any judgment that is unfavourable to the UK.
Faced with a choice between promoting happiness through political change - by reducing advertising or meaningless work, for example - and doing so through new behavioural or medical interventions, the latter invariably end up seeming most expedient.
What was supposed to be an interim expedient to help a few acutely ill patients while a better deal with the industry was hammered out has become a way of escaping the constraints carefully established by Nice.
In Harley's case the expedient approach would be to cut prices to keep market share.
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.
On May 11th the new Union for the Presidential Majority (UMP), an expedient amalgam of most of the parties of the centre and right, issued a list of its agreed candidates for the assembly's 577 constituencies.
