Sentence examples for only expedient from inspiring English sources

There's only expedient exaggeration".

There is no requirement that the powers be considered "necessary" – only "expedient".

What we are talking about is a rationalized conformity -- an open, articulate philosophy which holds that group values are not only expedient but right and good as well".

Public ignorance was preferable to the only expedient response, which was to slaughter all the infected herds, test the remaining cattle and publicize the known risks.

Prussia was the first to defect from Napoleon's cause; possibly the arrival of the remnants of the Grande Armée in Berlin convinced the Prussian leadership that it was not only safe, but expedient.

This new result shows that such Galerkin bases not only retain exponential convergence but expedient function-fitting properties too, in much the same way as the Jacobi polynomials themselves.

Was it merely expedient for the drama?

No true democracy has been fostered, but the old ideologies persist only as expedient rhetoric.

As for liberal critics, Mr. Kloppenberg took pains to differentiate the president's philosophical pragmatism, which assumes that change emerges over decades, from the kind of "vulgar pragmatism" practiced by politicians looking only for expedient compromise.

The use of nanostructured electrodes in ESD onto an Armco iron substrates seems expedient only for P < 0.23 J.

The National Government was intended as only a temporary expedient, but governed Britain until Chamberlain's fall in 1940.