Sentence examples for grounds of expediency from inspiring English sources
But then this is offered on grounds of expediency not cogency.
The report accepts that the organisation has opted for "non-violent incremental change on the grounds of expediency".
The justification for the elimination of proof of criminal intent in such cases is ordinarily made on the grounds of expediency.
But the Watergate papers show conclusively that these decisions were taken on the grounds of expediency, and never really rejected because they were considered wrong.
He said that he was a libertarian philosophically, but a member of the U.S. Republican Party for the sake of "expediency" ("I am a libertarian with a small 'l' and a Republican with a capital 'R.' And I am a Republican with a capital 'R' on grounds of expediency, not on principle").
And both are routinely excused the inexcusable, on the grounds of political expediency.
Second, having taking an uncompromising stand on Serbia's full cooperation with the ICTY as a precondition for membership, it would not look good for EU members to demand that their own actions be exempt from legal scrutiny on the grounds of political expediency.
It was totally out of expediency.
The whiff of malfeasance, of expediency, breaks the unspoken covenant.
Others see it as the triumph of expediency over principle.
