1. Too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. 

2. It is expedient that he should go.

3. The government found it expedient to relax censorship a little.

4. This solution is politically expedient but may well cause long-term problems.

5. Surgical waiting lists were reduced by the simple expedient of striking off all patients awaiting varicose vein operations.

6. It is expedient that he should retire at once.

7. It was expedient to retire gracefully.

8. We think it is expedient to make a good-will gesture to the new administration.

9. It might be expedient not to pay him until the work is finished.

10. I cut my purchases dramatically by the simple expedient of destroying my credit cards.

11. Moore escaped by the simple expedient of lying down in a clump of grass.

12. The disease was controlled by the simple expedient of not allowing anyone to leave the city.

13. The management has taken a series of expedient measures to improve the company's financial situation.

14. It is expedient to reduce unnecessary expenditure.

15. The arrangement, however,() was not just expedient.

16. Politically, expressing horror at degeneracy was expedient.

17. It may, therefore, be expedient on certain occasions to utilise taped material in a more selective manner.

18. They also conceded to an expedient truce, each hoping to fight again once it had regained strength.

19. Before these are considered, however, it is expedient to examine the general principle.

20. It may therefore become economically and politically expedient to encourage a shift to more labour intensive methods of primary production.

21. Presumably, this is a politically expedient decision; but how long can this car dependence be sustained?

22. But he soon found it expedient to use unsavoury characters to control even nastier ones further down the party line.

23. Since there was soon to be a general election, the Prime Minister decided that a change of policy was politically expedient.

24. Governments frequently ignore human rights abuses in other countries if it is politically expedient to do so.

25. The government has clearly decided that a cut in interest rates would be politically expedient.

26. For short exploratory missions of a few days, it is clearly most expedient to carry along the requisite supplies from Earth.

27. They divined the contents of sealed envelopes by the simple expedient of opening the staples at the other end of the envelope.

28. Billy Bragg has the unusual gift of making other people's songs his own by the simple expedient of singing them.

29. The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

30. Northern whites tolerated this repression and, in fact, adopted these policies when expedient.

1. It is expedient that he should go.

2. The government found it expedient to relax censorship a little.

3. This solution is politically expedient but may well cause long-term problems.

4. Surgical waiting lists were reduced by the simple expedient of striking off all patients awaiting varicose vein operations.

31. Worse yet, it may resort to additional expedient action to disguise or defuse the consequences of previous counterproductive actions.

32. She was free of the shaming curbs of expedient morality.

33. On the eve of the October revolution, the Provisional Government accepted this as a temporary expedient.

34. Our remote ancestors were among those who found it expedient to change and diversify.

35. The Pearl has a 6,500-strong sales force which collects insurance premiums and arranges policies by the simple expedient of house-to-house calls.

36. To propose that expedient requires an excursion into the realms of Utopian construction.

37. Artists found it expedient to hide the fact of their use of photographic material or its influence upon them.

38. The centrality of full employment as a policy objective is electorally expedient too.

39. Taylor himself never placed undue stock in it, viewing it largely as a temporary expedient.

40. So he adopted the simple expedient of not opening it until it was beyond his power to act on it.

41. Aicha Kossoko exerts a brooding presence as Octavia, suffering nobly through her politically expedient marriage to the unloving Antony.

42. Leathart thought it expedient to cross-cut to all of the veins in the vicinity.

43. There can be little doubt that any government would rapidly do so should it become politically expedient.

44. Now down into crawler gear he pushes on, finding regular protection by the simple expedient of removing most of the ice!

45. The government found it expedient to slacken the grip of censorship in order to encourage loyal expressions of support for the Emancipation programme.

46. Mr Ashdown is not content with imposing his version of stability as a temporary expedient, a regrettably necessary short-term tactic.

47. It's just a temporary expedient.

48. The story was a temporary expedient.

49. Step scanning is an expedient technique.

50. And if thy right hand scandalize thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should perish,[http:///expedient.html] rather than that thy whole body be cast into hell.

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53. But no good-willed person needs to fear or despise the law if the simple expedient of "an eye for an eye" is followed.

54. However, specifically, the AML is not just a temporary expedient in the financial area, or a systematic requirement of marketization in the economic area.

55. Sometimes she calls him her "Teacher, " and in one case of which we have heard she was driven to the desperate expedient of dubbing her husband by the name of his business" Oilmill says thus and so! "

56. In practice, self-determination soon became an expedient for newly established despots to strengthen and perpetuate their wrongdoings.

57. Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

58. There are others to whom Idleness dictates another expedient, by which life may be passed unprofitably away without the tediousness of many vacant hours.

59. Pursuing the two-level teacher system in institutions of higher learning is by no means a temporary expedient, but a strategic measure to enhance the quality of talent-training.

60. It's highly expedient for you to use despatch, lest another should step in.

61. The land sales were merely a temporary expedient for dealing with an immediate need.

62. By the article establishing the executive department it is made the duty of the President, "to recommend to your consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient."

63. Presents the possible expedient electric saving measurements, and analyses economic problems for the future application of gas-fired air conditioning and combined cooling heating and power.

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65. Many conservatives resurrected traditional isolationism, protecting American moral purity against contamination by the expedient.

66. Tasking collection amongst witting or unwitting social groups could be an expedient way of finding out what's going on in some field of concern.

67. It was a big stretch, given the actual facts -- but Obama can't even take advantage of this same desperate expedient[ ], since Congress has appropriated no funds for the Libyan war.

68. The land sale was merely a temporary expedient for dealing with an immediate need.

69. So it is not surprising that politically expedient assertions about China have become as American as fortune cookies, and as sententiously meretricious as the prophecies and advice these encase.

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