Sentence examples for on expedience from inspiring English sources

"We must base whatever action we take based on facts, not on expedience, or media-generated momentum, or politics," Senator Pat Roberts, the Kansas Republican who is the panel's chairman, said.

When no one is looking and we are not being regulated from without, do we make decisions based on expedience, or based on what is right?

The standard approaches to these problems of inconsistency are, by and large, ones of expedience.

(In this Presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton can expect to be attacked for her husband's tough-on-crime expedience — from the right).

But others turned the accusation of expedience on its head.

The manuscript is exhibited each holiday season at the Morgan, but as a matter of expedience, only one page is put on view each year, under glass.

Mr. Baugh, the lawyer for Mr. al-'Owhali, said he would oppose any attempt to join the cases on the grounds of expedience or efficiency.

All right, some of the football was more utilitarian than aesthetic, and style was occasionally sacrificed on the altar of expedience, but so what?

Without virtue, participation was to be valued on the basis of expedience.

And Tom, hating to forgo all family life and a modicum of leisure, learns the usefulness of expedience and hypocrisy on the job in the corporate culture.

Mr. Callaghan became prime minister in 1976, but by only the slimmest of margins, his power dependent on an uneasy alliance of expedience with the Liberal Democratic Party.