Only moderately successful, he found it expedient to support the Roman commune's expansionist policies.
The law faculty at Pavia took offense, and Valla found it expedient to leave.
Democrats who once praised Mr. De Sapio now found it expedient to excoriate him.
Even in France Napoleon found it expedient to issue a decree permitting use of the old medieval system.
Ultimately, he found it expedient to publicly break with a Tammany Hall that had twice gotten him elected.
found it expedient to say that they were, & now at a time when they are expanding their bases, on a totally unprecedented scale, he finds it expedient to pretend that they are not.
Although he was acquitted, he found it expedient to travel for a number of years in Mexico and Central America, making publicity photographs for the Union Pacific Railroad, a company owned by Stanford.
It also came at a time when the Los Angeles district attorney Steve Cooley, then running for state attorney general, found it expedient to campaign on the extradition issue.
But, as polls showed Americans growing jittery about gasoline prices, McCain apparently found it expedient in this area, too, to shift course.
Diplomats said he might have found it expedient to keep the details of his program vague for now, while signaling his endorsement of the more liberal economic thinkers.
This is among the reasons that Hamilton found it expedient, in the Federalist No. 78, to emphasize the weakness of the judicial branch.
