Sentence examples for or expedient from inspiring English sources

This historical Buddha guides ordinary, ignorant, and irreligious people towards the Dharma, but for this sake must improvise skillful (or: expedient) means (Skrt: upâya; Jpn: hôben) appropriate to the time, place, and comprehension of a given audience.

Then as now, uniformed lawyers adopted rigid interpretations of the rules of warfare as constraining government policies, while civilian lawyers gravitated toward more flexible (or expedient) understandings.

No matter how tempting or expedient, trials by military commission will prove disastrous -- to the war against terrorism, to the Constitution and to the rule of law.

It also raises a central question for someone seeking a pressure cooker of a job that demands leadership and constant decisions: is he practical or expedient, an ideologue or a pragmatist?

Republican dissatisfaction with the President, and with Washington more generally, has expressed itself in a desire for novelty, even though a candidate lacking a long record of awkward Senate votes or expedient statehouse concessions might also turn out to be a candidate lacking media-savvy handlers, or first-rate vetters, or a coherent position on Libya.

"The real question," wrote Harriet Taylor Mill, in words often called on by the suffragettes, "is whether it is right or expedient that one half of the human race should pass through life in a state of forced subordination to the other half … when the only reason that can be given is, that men like it".

The theme of Tyrion's rough but serviceable speech to the troops was: I won't try to get you to fight for all the things that used to make up the social contract, because you're smart enough to know that most of what people like me say or do is a lie or an expedient half-truth designed to make sure the rich get richer.

The idea of hosshin seppô also expresses a universalization in Shingon of the Mahâyâna Buddhist notion of expedient (or: skillful) means.

And some Democratic strategists worry that Mr. Kerry is still an unfamiliar figure to many voters, and that these early attacks show just how vulnerable he is to being defined by the Republicans as indecisive or politically expedient.

But, even after this year's election victory, these are not politically or economically expedient times for tax cuts, while today's no-go departmental areas are very different from the past too.

In an example of either meta-gag or simple expedient storytelling there was a scene where Keen reeled off her own character traits in response to Agent Cooper's request that she profile herself: "My colleagues call me 'Sir', they think I'm a bitch.