Sentence examples for it expedient from inspiring English sources

Many countries, including black-ruled African states as well as South Africa and Portugal with its African colonies, found it expedient to undermine them.

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.

Nobody even considered changing the rules for them when their circumstances would have made it expedient".

Becker planned to compete to three hearts on the next round if he deemed it expedient.

Probably half of them do, and the other half find it expedient to pretend to.

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.

This ban was repeated in 1471 when Parliament thought it "expedient [th]at…ye futbal and golf be abusit".

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.

FSB chief Mr Bortnikov said: "Until we know the real reasons for what happened, I consider it expedient to stop Russian flights to Egypt.