Moreover, the push for additional mental health laws is often driven by political expediency, some critics say.
For the sake of narrative expediency, some episodes from her far-flung life and several characters are collapsed; a string of lovers, for example, is represented by one, Laurance Rockefeller.
While candidates like Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney are likely driven by political expediency, some of our most powerful opponents -- like the bishops -- clearly have ideological fervor fueling them.
It bespeaks a moral decay and failure of imagination when, in the name of expediency, some appear willing to burnish their "realist" credentials by condemning the nearly 10 million displaced Syrians to the indignities of stateless exile.
We will not be able to gauge the long-term costs of the court's short-term expediency for some time to come.
That attitude is not a departure for Ms. Franklin, 64, who has consistently acted with a disregard for political expediency that some call reckless.
Lawmakers like Mr. Miller also accuse the agency of acting out of political expediency in some cases, like that of the FEMA trailers.
Mr. Obama did face some accusations of political expediency for siding with labor on a provision that was not favored by the Democrats who had forged the fragile, bipartisan compromise.
At its most trenchant and engaging, "A Free Man of Color" illuminates in bold, crisp strokes (and some impish humor) how expediency and the territorial ambitions of the young America led to a crucial moral compromise that would ultimately set the stage for the advance of slavery and the entrenchment of racism in the American social fabric.
But leaving aside the book-burners, the Islamophobes and those who object to the "Ground Zero mosque" for reasons of political expediency, for some of the relatives of those who died in that or any other tragedy, grief is not logical.
For her part, Williams thinks a vote to remove the flag will be another matter of political expediency for some legislators.
