1. He acted out of expediency, not principle.

2. They are politics of political expediency.

3. Hedonism and expediency are the bywords.

4. The government is torn between principle and expediency.

5. He acted from expediency, not from principle.

6. The potential for expediency in planning is vast.

7. This was a matter less of morals than of expediency.

8. It was for Congress to determine the question of expediency.

9. All parties Agree in the expediency of the law

10. But his actions were perhaps not entirely a matter of cynical expediency.

11. It was difficult to strike the right balance between justice and expediency.

12. The bailout bill is a classic example of expediency over effectiveness.

13. Perhaps it had been a matter of legal or political expediency.

14. Benignancy •radiancy •immediacy, intermediacy •expediency • idiocy • saliency •resiliency • leniency •incipiency, recipiency •recreancy

15. The governor vetoed this bill out of political expediency rather than principle.

16. They may concern the expediency and/or legality of an administrative act. ii.

17. 10 These rates are clearly a trade-off between economic logic and political expediency.

18. This is often a legacy of historic inception, piecemeal development, and political expediency.

19. These rates are clearly a trade-off between economic logic and political expediency.

20. And a system whose first and last resort was all too often expediency.

21. I think this government operates on the basis of expediency, not of principle.

22. These are not politics of honest principle; they are politics of political expediency .

23. They put short-term expediency and selfish interest before the application of high principles.

24. 20 I think this government operates on the basis of expediency, not of principle.

25. Various parties pursued conflicting objectives, often making tenuous alliances with each other for the sole purpose of expediency.

26. It is also quite distinct from expediency, or the idea of Benefiting by an act

27. He would continue to make most of his decisions on the basis of military expediency.

28. This is, unashamedly, a policy of relegating by expediency rather than by any stated objectives.

29. The aristocracy of this period has been castigated for its naked self-interest and expediency.

30. 20 This is, unashamedly, a policy of relegating by expediency rather than by any stated objectives.

31. Theirs was a relationship based upon expediency and convenience, not one of compatibility and mutual support.

32. 26 So, for instance, Taylor and Urquhart found that the cost of relegating by expediency rather than by stated objectives.

33. A certain sort of grimness came into my voice, as if expediency had now to take over.

34. 18 Various parties pursued conflicting objectives, often making tenuous alliances with each other for the sole purpose of expediency.

35. Now, once again, the thin reed of refugee protection has fallen prey to the winds of political expediency.

36. What are needed are more Mario Cuomos, politicians who are prepared to put moral and practical argument above political expediency.

37. So, for instance, Taylor and Urquhart found that the cost of relegating by expediency rather than by stated objectives.

38. Legal change becomes prioritised and justified through expediency; opposition becomes reduced - an irritation to the smooth flow of economic policy.

39. Though peace in the subcontinental context has become more of an abstraction wrapped in emotion than a geopolitical expediency .

40. The second is the Expediency Council, a body that Arbitrates disputes between parliament and the unelected Guardian Council, which can block legislation.

41. 14 I was not fond of pampering that susceptible vanity of his; but for once, and from motives of expediency, I would e'en soothe and stimulate it.

42. The letters, in particular, reveal an almost dramatic attentiveness to nuances of character and event, and a mind so finely attuned to political hazard, that almost every phrase conveys degrees of Circumspectness and expediency.

43. Former President Fidel Ramos said Arroyo’s "Ambiguousness" towards her population policy "has put mothers’ lives and health, together with their babies, at risk for the sake of political expediency and religious traditionalism."

44. Carpetbagger: 1 n an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously “after the Civil War the Carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south” Type of: opportunist , self-seeker a person who places expediency above principle

45. Conventionalism a movement in the philosophical interpretation of science, according to which theories in mathematics and the natural sciences are based on arbitrary agreements (definitions or conventions among scientists) that are chosen entirely on the basis of convenience, expediency, the “principle of economy of thought,” and so on.

46. The great problem to be solved is, first, Was Sebastopol Assailable by the north side?; From praying and swearing he fell to weeping, but the stony-hearted little tyrant was not Assailable by tears or entreaties.; It was odd that this gentle-natured man, so easily Assailable in general, should prove so unapproachable on the subject of personal expediency.

47. Soou as ha was re-elected>ths Aldermanship agu.n, rcnouneed the instruineut he had been using, and has since hailed as a whig Since that time no ha* been a candidate for Sheriff, but the confidence of his friends had been shahen by this conduct, and he was defeated lie has always been tho leader of the expediency school of the whig party, aud

48. As was apparent at his home on Friday, the government is clearly reluctant to cut off Saeed and his group too abruptly, partly out of expediency but partly out of fear, too.Pakistan has used Lashkar and other militant groups as surrogate security forces in Kashmir, the disputed Himalayan region claimed by both Pakistan and India, and many in the country's army are sympathetic to Lashkar and other Islamist militant groups.