That might have been a politically expedient position to take during the recent election campaign, when the shortage of water in Sao Paulo was a thorny political issue, but the apparent lack of urgency in the city and wider state now is worrying many.
It just happens to be the most politically expedient view.
He doesn't really care about abortion, gun control, immigration, stem cells, foreign policy or even health care reform, so it was easy to take whatever position was politically expedient at the time.
Heatherwick is very civic-minded – not in a politically expedient way, it seems, but from a position of logic.
Florian Philippot, who looks after the front's communication strategy, is a thirty-something graduate of the Ecole Nationale d'Administration, an elite school, and just the sort of egghead insider whom the party used to decry.For all Ms Le Pen's efforts, voters might eventually wise up to the front leader's willingness to change her position if it is politically expedient.
This White House does not see the deficit as a problem, whereas Senator Kerry has a record as a deficit hawk.Yet Candidate Kerry is not above abandoning sensible policy positions when they are no longer politically expedient.
Republicans haven't just embraced Trump's nativism and politics of resentment because it's politically expedient.
In the drive to win power in India, the BJP frequently dissembles its true purpose, courts Muslims when it is politically expedient and always has a couple of Muslims in prominent positions to ward off awkward questions – even though it was allegedly involved in the Gujarat massacre in 2002, in which an estimated 2,000 Muslims were killed.
He has preserved his position of power through a series of politically expedient but morally repugnant alliances.
He shifts positions when it's convenient (campaign finance), he removes himself from relationships when they're no longer politically expedient (the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr ., and he avoids taking potentially controversial positions (wiretapping).
So a politically expedient move then has left David Cameron with a politically charged situation now.
