Sentence examples for were expedient to from inspiring English sources

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The report from the head of city development to the West Area Planning Committee said: "If it were expedient to do so, revocation of the planning permission could be considered, though it is likely the secretary of state would be very reluctant to revoke a valid planning permission other than in the most exceptional circumstances.

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Sometimes, it's expedient to begin where the show is less crowded.

If you can't avoid the check-in queue, it's expedient to profile those ahead of you.

It is expedient to shift the memorial park 40 yards, but the memory of fallen soldiers should supersede that change.

The head of his federal security services said it would be expedient to suspend flights until they had discovered why the Airbus A321 had crashed last Saturday.

Or it might be expedient to restrain wealthy individuals in less-developed countries, where domestic saving was in notably short supply, from sending their funds to high-saving countries.

If they had done this, the story they would have to tell was that he was cast aside because it was expedient to the prime minister's party political interests to do so.

"It may often be expedient to submit; it may even sometimes be morally right to do so in order to avoid a greater evil; but submission is not inherently beautiful – it is generally cowardly and frequently morally wrong".

After his death, the Bolshoi survived largely because Anatoly Lunacharsky, the Commissar of Enlightenment, argued that it would be expedient to have classically trained dancers presenting spectacles on revolutionary themes.

Like some other conservatives who claim a kind of principled purity -- for example, Mr. Ashcroft's boss, George W. Bush -- the attorney general appears to have no trouble setting aside politically convenient ideological poses when it is expedient to do so.

For efficient operation of a CAF line, it is expedient to maintain an uninterrupted steady and continuous flow.

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