Sentence examples for practical and expedient from inspiring English sources

"This Trust, with its three trustees, has been established to manage the winnings in the most practical and expedient way possible so that we can achieve our strategic goal of helping those who can best benefit from these funds," the statement said.

A well-designed clinical prediction tool remains the most practical and expedient way to achieve these goals.

Despite certain tours de force by modern artists — the most graceful and gracious being Matisse's Vence Chapel, with its succinct linear motifs — stained glass now serves mainly as a practical and pretty expedient for places where daylight is wanted, but not a view, or where prettiness is an end in itself.

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?

According to Aristotle, "Now it is thought to be the mark of a man of practical wisdom to be able to deliberate well about what is good and expedient for himself, not in some particular respect, e.g. about what sorts of thing conduce to health or to strength, but about what sorts of thing conduce to the good life in general" (Nichomachean Ethics, VI, 1140a 1140b).

Second, it posits that American military power must be the operating framework for this new strategy — not just as a practical expedient, temporary and unavoidable, but as an inherently valuable and permanent ideal.

"Unilateralism" in military affairs may be necessary and expedient.

This is an unfortunate and expedient dumbing down of a word weighted with genuine tragedy.

Thomsen's commitment to the Nazi war effort is haphazard and expedient: "We were obstruktiv Mitlaufere.

There is precision and roughness, both engineered machinery and expedient temporary structures of nailed-together planks.

It has done so in solid and expedient fashion with "India: Contemporary Art From Northeastern Private Collections".