Sentence examples for on the expedient from inspiring English sources

In the end, Japanese engineers hit on the expedient of digging a parallel drainage tunnel the entire length of the main tunnel.

Indeed, Salmon points out that, since the application of every law involves a tacit extremal (or "ceteris paribus") clause, any law can be protected from refutation by discounting disconfirming evidence on the expedient of claiming that, because the clause was not satisfied, the law is still correct, which is another way to accent the source of Hempel's concern (Salmon 1989, 84 85).

In order to prevent this, when applying the gear to the Pacifics, Gresley fell back on the expedient of shortening valve travel even though that choked the exhaust at speed, was responsible for the heavy coal consumption, and negated most of the advantages gained by the locomotive's revolutionary design.

This review focuses on the techniques adopted for the preparation of UV-cured quasi-solid electrolytes, on the expedients designed to overcome the inhibition phenomena typical of some photoinitiated mechanisms, and on the evaluation of photoelectric performance obtained in presence of these photopolymer electrolytes.

The current study focused on the clinical utility of specific miRNAs for the expedient diagnosis of BE.

He argues that Jews should not have to resort to the expedient of baptism as a means for achieving citizenship and civil rights (as some (Jewish) contemporaries had proposed), on the grounds that this expedient would be detrimental both to the Jews and their religion and to Christianity.

Fostering students' motivation for and commitment to doing the "right"; taking personal responsibility for acting on one's judgment; prioritizing the principled path over the expedient one.

Too often, government is focused on the simple, expedient, short-term measure when addressing the problem of homelessness.

It's hard not to fixate on the brutal, expedient manner in which Henry's first five wives were dispatched, hard to balk at the manner in which Henry Nigel Farage-stylele – stuck two fingers up at European interference (namely by Rome).

The profit estimate is based on the simple expedient of multiplying the amount each firm borrowed from the Fed by its net interest margin – a key indicator of bank profitability that measures the difference between the amount the bank pays to get money and the amount it charges to provide money.

In the Highlands the administration fell back on the ancient expedient of making clan chiefs responsible for the conduct of their followers.