Sentence examples for no expedient from inspiring English sources

I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty.

In the library is also a motto composed by Sir Josuah Reynolds: "There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor or thinking".

Although equations expressing the relative motions can be written for specific cases, no expedient approximate solutions were possible before the development of high-speed digital computers for calculating trajectories of long-range missiles.

There was a sign that was placed all over our great-grandfather's labs that read: "There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking". It would appear that some people in the administration are proving that statement, attributed to the 18th-century painter Joshua Reynolds, to be right, by even considering these lighting rollback plans.

Two of the principals in these collisions-the Andrea Doria & the Constitution-were going lickety-split through dense fog, trusting to radar to keep them out of trouble; the 4th, the freighter, was adopting the old-fashioned expedient of lying to, which is no expedient in these days, when everybody else is in motion.

Had there been no expedient fiddling about with the family names earlier in the century, the 1947 marriage between our Queen and her consort would have been not a Windsor/Mountbatten wedding but a Saxe-Coburg-Gotha/Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg one.

A possible explanation may be that in the case of a major threat, these appeasement signals are no longer expedient, and the dogs select more promising behavioral strategies, such as clearly "submissive" behavior or escape.

Mr Cameron is apparently forced to target pigeons because it is no longer expedient for him to pursue his real passion – more of a passion, probably, than the dull, compromised world of politics – of deer-stalking.

By that, she meant: At a certain point, perhaps not long from now, one of the only means that available for stopping unjust actions may be to create such social disturbance, so much institutional and bureaucratic overload that those with power would find it no longer expedient to maintain injustice.

"If commercial vessels decide it's no longer expedient to employ armed guards," he said, "these guys will just surge".

Agis joined Aratus near the city of Corinth, where it was still a matter of debate whether or no it were expedient to give the enemy battle.