Sentence examples for thought it expedient from inspiring English sources

This ban was repeated in 1471 when Parliament thought it "expedient [th]at…ye futbal and golf be abusit".

Thomas Jefferson wrote of George Washington in 1793 that "the president thought it expedient to remind our fellow citizens that we were in a state of peace".

This was one of the many occasions on which the millionaires of the era demonstrated that they thought it expedient for their conspicuous consumption to be kept inconspicuous.

The German war being finished, Caesar thought it expedient for him to cross the Rhine, for many reasons; of which this was the most weighty, that, since he saw the Germans were so easily urged to go into Gaul, he desired they should have their fears for their own territories, when they discovered that the army of the Roman people both could and dared pass the Rhine.

This was against the UCI's own rules but the management of the sport thought it expedient to have any winner, rather than have another cycling 'drug cheat' story across the newspapers.

However, because the success of treatment has so far been measured mostly using questionnaires, we also thought it expedient to introduce validated questionnaires like WOMAC and SF-12, and also assess balance, mobility, and general function of the lower legs.

This reading of Mr. Netanyahu holds that he is, at bottom, a cynic (or, if you agree with him, a pragmatist), who will bluff vigorously but bend whenever he thinks it expedient or unavoidable.

Or about "Hail the Conquering Hero": "Most certainly Sturges has fine comic and satiric gifts, and knows how to tell more truth than that when he thinks it expedient; but he seldom does".

11 If the United States, for example, thought it more expedient to torture or simply to execute a person rather than to attempt extradition, these options would be equally available because they, too, were not explicitly prohibited by the Treaty.

De Bellaigue writes with humour and attention to revealing detail, painting a picture of Mossadegh as a man of principle, who acted out of patriotism and a sense of justice, but who rarely hesitated to take to his bed with a fit of the vapours if he thought it politically expedient, and who, by the end of his time in office, acted against his own democratic values.

He either forgot, or just didn't know, or just thought it wasn't expedient or appropriate for this venue.