Sentence examples for was thought expedient from inspiring English sources

Divorce was discussed, but then a bond was probably sworn between the lords present to remove Darnley by other means: "It was thought expedient and most profitable for the common wealth ... that such a young fool and proud tyrant should not reign or bear rule over them; ... that he should be put off by one way or another; and whosoever should take the deed in hand or do it, they should defend".

The process of transformation from a classical description to an equation of quantum mechanics, and from the solution of this equation to the probability that a specified experiment will yield a specified observation, is not to be thought of as a temporary expedient pending the development of a better theory.

I am confident that history will show that this vote in Congress was a turning point, that it occurred because a handful of elected officials thought it was more expedient to put the interests of the gun lobby ahead of the people they have been elected to represent, that they thought they could just continue to get away with it.

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

He only promoted and signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 1965 Voting Rights Act because he thought it was politically expedient.

I'm sure some of those nice students you visited in the hinterland have aptitudes for physics or biology or astronomy or rocket science, but they're never going to explore those avenues in which they could have become productive citizens because you and Barack think it's politically expedient to give your stamps of authenticity to ancient mythologies.

Indeed, rarely do members of Congress even ask whether they have the authority, under the Constitution, to undertake proposals before them; they seem to think they may do whatever they imagine is politically expedient.

"It's relatively rare to encounter a situation in which what is morally right is also what is practically expedient, and I think we've found ourselves in that situation," Bugbee said.

If the President can just interpret laws to take the United States of America to war, he can essentially take America to war when he feels like it or when he thinks it would be politically expedient.

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.

In Syria, the separation was an expedient fiction.