Sentence examples for my expedient from inspiring English sources

Deirdre Flanagan Ward NO FORD IN MY FUTURE That Ford makes more intimidating versions Of S.U.V. each year is evident: Explorer Expedition now Excursion Towering over my Expedient.

The expedient notion that my enemy's enemy is my friend even motivated the Jewish militant leader Avraham Stern to try, in 1940, to enlist Nazi support against the British rulers of Palestine.

"Sub-prime credit" wasn't a minor disorder but, if I read my Financial Times right, a central expedient to keep the "house price retail driver" on the road.

"I remained a reluctant skeptic, doubtful of my own motives, wary of expedient conversion, having too many quarrels with God to accept a salvation too easily won," he wrote in his first book, "Dreams From My Father".

With this year's news about the ways some unscrupulous colleges make an extra buck off students' naïveté — from loan officers who accepted lenders' kickbacks to schools that got cash incentives to steer students to expensive study-abroad programs — I felt it was expedient to warn my daughter about a big expense that looms before her.

"It's expedient, just like reducing things to my race or my gender.

"In my experience they seem to be the most expedient at register transactions and processing".

Lieber offered an analogy which set the issue out clearly: "When a highway robber asks my purse, and I, being unarmed, consider it expedient to give it, I certainly recognize the robber, it is no more than recognition of a fact".

At my prep school we were taught French by the simple expedient of hitting boys who got the answers wrong; unfortunately, fear did not improve my results.

The only thing that could have happened is that, at some point during the night, I woke up in a fugue state and set the clock forward 21 hours, so I would miss her funeral… I must have set it forward 21 hours, because something in my subconscious said that was the only legitimate and expedient way to miss the funeral".

Ellroy has grown to dislike My Dark Places and now finds it "fraudulent and dramatically expedient" – which is ironic considering how much of it he rehashes in this disjointed confession, alternately pious and priapic; its goal exorcism but not closure, for no one as obsessive as Ellroy could contemplate such a thing.