Sentence examples for short-term expedient from inspiring English sources

It is not: A short-term expedient to transfer all risks.

Chinese Land Banking in Urban Development: Long-Term Planning or Short-Term Expedient?

Mr Prodi called it a short-term expedient to allow longer-term measures to be enacted.

This is not something I recommend, but there are times when it could be a useful short-term expedient.

It also emphasises the importance of regularly reviewing prescriptions, so that treatment is regarded as a short-term expedient rather than a long-term means of managing behaviour.

In the first place, it is extremely dubious whether this short-term expedient will serve the long-term needs of the economy.

As we probably can't build an under-patio reservoir by July, he offers a few short-term expedients.

Administrators increasingly resorted to short-term expedients such as tax farming (auctioning the right of taxation to the highest bidder), which encouraged extortion and oppression, and granting iqṭāʿs to the military.

This can mean family for some, but for others encompasses community service or various avocations.By viewing their work arrangements in the longer term, and not as short-term expedients, these professionals are challenging the accepted view of time requirements for careers in organizations.

But there is also a short term expedient which might prove minimally disruptive to the European Monetary Union's current political and institutional arrangements, but could well succeed in restoring growth and employment in the euro zone.

Those critics, from both the left and the right, accused Congress of making a short-term, politically expedient decision instead of dealing with the bigger problems.