Sentence examples for it becomes expedient from inspiring English sources

Then, in the games, it becomes expedient to pretend she's in love with Peeta – expedient but deeply confusing.

Become a Trot, jettison everything you once professed to believe when it becomes expedient, ingratiate yourself with power, fight for policies such as university top-up fees that might have prevented the young Alan escaping his own working-class roots, and flounce out of government to make some dough when the going gets sticky.

In this chapter Locke, in effect, describes the evolution of the state of nature to the point where it becomes expedient for those in it to found a civil government.

These reversals give the White House the cover necessary to argue for accelerated withdrawal – should it become expedient to pursue such a course.

But there is little evidence that he acquired those interests until it became expedient to have them... Gore may be a bit of a drone and he has been known to pander, but he is also a rare phenomenon — a politician who formulated a series of substantive ideas about a difficult subject and then put them down in a book without the aid of a ghostwriter.

His going became expedient.

"He was stridently against it until it became politically expedient to support it".

For scientists working there, it became professionally expedient to side with the Department of Energy and to denounce Lee, a former colleague and neighbor.

Kadyrov became one of the key figures in modern Chechnya by virtue of the tactics of President Vladimir Putin, who badly needed a loyal Chechen to do his bidding, while seeking to undercut Maskhadov's status and also enabling the Russian leader to distance himself from the Chechnya war when it became politically expedient.

"Had Josh Mandel truly been concerned with protecting retirees and taxpayers from fraud, he would have taken the initiative to act more than a year ago -- not when it became politically expedient for him to do so".

A savvy media manipulator, he's also managed to avoid suffering serious damage for his more controversial votes, like his opportunistic support for Wall Street deregulation in the lead-up to the 2009 financial crisis, or for waiting to throw his weight behind gay marriage until it became politically expedient to do so.