According to the report, the deterioration of the public finances since late last year means it would be inexpedient to consider any fiscal easing in addition to that already agreed.
The fact that only new structures and uses are subject to regulation is characteristic of all modern Western forms of land-use control, whether it is deemed constitutionally impermissible to require landowners to change existing uses or is simply politically inexpedient to do so.
The validity of regional laws that are claimed to be illegal can be tested in the Constitutional Court, while those considered inexpedient can be challenged in parliament.
Russia's decision followed an 11th hour attempt to lobby President Vladimir Putin failed, who argued that a tribunal would be "inexpedient" while an investigation into the crash continued.
Mary Lincoln came to insist that he was; Herndon felt certain of the opposite, and the son of Lincoln's friend Samuel Hill went so far as to claim that his father had burned a short, politically inexpedient book in which the young Lincoln had questioned the authority of the Bible and the existence of a hereafter.
The one real novelty in the conception is that the audience has a God's-eye view of who is doing what to whom, while the characters have a blinkered view and, misinterpreting what they see, sometimes take totally inexpedient action.
(I fancy that if you were a detective seeking a suspect from Haarlem, with only a Hals portrait to go on, you'd make an easy I.D. not only visually but with a distinguishing feel, unclouded by inexpedient sympathy, for your quarry).
He gives two reasons that it is inexpedient to meet Mr. Rockefeller's request: first, it is too early; second, it is too late.
The first stated that it was "inexpedient, inauspicious, and impolitic" to support emigration; the second expressed skepticism that delegates chosen at that meeting could represent "the interests of over four-and-a-half millions of our race".
In a letter addressed to Mr. Tsvangirai, Mr. Mugabe wrote that "it became inexpedient" to wait for Parliament to pass the electoral laws necessary to bring current law into line with the new constitution.
His note to Bragg simply read, "The last twenty-four haves have developed a condition of things on my front and left flank … which makes compliance with this order not only eminently inexpedient but impracticable".
