They provided the constituency for the "independent" Christian Churches, whereas Disciples tended to find more and more flexibility in the principle of expediency.
"When we find substances such as strychnine in the tablets, we issue a public warning," says Inge Spruit, head of the institute's department of monitoring and epidemiology.What makes this approach work is the Dutch principle of expediency, which has already proved useful in dealing with other morally contentious issues such as abortion and euthanasia.
On the other hand, if -- as appears likely -- Democratic senators make dire predictions about how disastrous an Alito nomination will be for the country but then do not back those statements up with a filibuster, the party will once again appear unwilling or unable to put principle ahead of expediency.
Neither deal represented a final victory, and in fact some on the left in his own party argued that both of them amounted to sellouts on principle in favor of expediency.
Like anyone else, I can only try to resist future temptations to abandon principle for expediency, and hope that in the end my character is judged from the totality of my life, and not by its flaws alone".
Like anyone else, I can only try to resist future temptations to abandon principle for expediency, and hope that in the end, my character is judged from the totality of my life, and not by its flaws alone.
Mr Osborne's supporters admit that he revels in the politics of politics: the fine calculation of tactics, the plotting of ambushes, the sniffing of breezes and the weighing of principle against expediency.
None of those arguments are derived from principle; they are arguments of expediency.
"He's a strong believer in Europe; for him it's a matter of principle, not a matter of expediency".
I'd go further: since most people have, at some time in their lives, found themselves in the position of going against principle in the interest of expediency, any viewer with any imagination at all can identify with the extermination-camp guards and ghetto officials Lanzmann interviews, low-level functionaries or conscripts who find themselves in a dire situation and just want to get through it.
"When matters of principle and expediency clash with Rupert, expediency wins every time," says Frank Barlow, who, as the managing director of the London-based media conglomerate Pearson, is chairman of the Financial Times and oversees the Penguin publishing group.
