Such politically expedient language has a strategic downside.

There's only the expedient exaggeration. You ought to know that.

The consequences of choosing this inadequate, if expedient, route are serious.

It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews that it was expedient that one man should perish for the people.

Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

Now Caiaphas was he, which gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.

Though his ties to jihadists may be expedient rather than ideological, they are deeply worrying.

But, if tax increases are not politically expedient, policymakers should proceed with old fashioned deficit spending.

But, if tax increases are not politically expedient, policymakers should proceed with old fashioned deficit spending.

We share the view that the involvement of Kosovo Serbs in those bodies is perfectly expedient.

And herein I give my advice for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.

That conventional wisdom, those words of conventional wisdom are popular in political circles, because they're expedient justifications for the reduction and elimination of government funding for the arts.

With China's rapid growth increasingly affecting a wide range of issues worldwide, it has become expedient for US presidential candidates to blame China for some of America's domestic problems.

All things are lawful for me, but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

We allowed convenient cultural stereotyping to sustain what we believed was the expedient pursuit of our national interest.

Human rights is too serious a matter to have been left to the blunt expedient of a vote.

As concerns the Emergency Handbook, it was found more expedient to develop complementary tools and guidelines (e.g. for administration) rather than to revise the entire Handbook.

I give a judgment in this for this is expedient for you, who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.

The seventeenth century French philosopher René Descartes solved it by the drastic expedient of denying that animals can suffer.

It trusts that the expedient used during the very initial stage of the operation has by now been discontinued.

It trusts that the expedient use during the very initial stage of the operation has by now been discontinued.

In order to keep us both alive, she was reduced to the horrible expedient of taking in a lodger.

Whereas progress has been made in refugee return, we are not equally expedient in promoting return of the internally displaced.

All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

Good leaders have the courage to stand up and do what is right which often will not be what is expedient, especially in terms of posturing for the next election.

It is a very dangerous expedient, one that undermines standards of value, renders economic calculation virtually impossible, and redistributes wealth at random.

His disciples said to him, If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.

On the other hand, it may seem expedient and necessary for the Commission to devote more attention to procedural questions than to substantive matters such as describing offences and determining sentences.

That extreme expedient can be considered only when all other efforts have been exhausted and peaceful solutions have proved not to be viable.

What that means is that, where it is necessary for police and security reasons that police areas cross the inter entity border line, then that should be done where it is operationally expedient.

Unilateralism seems very expedient to shortsighted politicians, for it obviates the need for what they perceive as the mess of actual negotiations that is, meeting their counterparts face to face and discovering the human results of their policies.

Nevertheless I tell you the truth It is expedient for you that I go away for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you but if I depart, I will send him unto you.

In that connection, with due regard for the conclusions drawn by the Secretary General, he considered it expedient to identify a relevant format for discussing at the United Nations in 2005 the positive experience of post conflict countries.

While reducing such capabilities might seem like an expedient way to cut costs, European governments must not lose sight of their long term security priorities.

Tyrants are rarely ideologically committed to Sunnism or Shiism but are happy to exploit either when it's expedient. Iyad El Baghdadi ( iyad_elbaghdadi) January 13, 2016

Although starting the whole system at once was politically expedient, it delayed completion, and forced even more reliance on temporary experts brought in from Britain.

Germany's War plan, the Schillefen Plan, required that it invade France in the most expedient way possible, which as you can see is via Belgium,

Prevented from criticizing the country s leaders and reporting fully and objectively on domestic affairs, China s media often finds it expedient to turn its critical gaze outwards.

Where there is a breakdown in measures to protect minority rights, the State should take speedy and expedient measures to prosecute and bring offenders to book.

These steps would undoubtedly be conducive to preparing the ground for expedient negotiations on a fissile material cut off treaty and would, in their own right, be a useful interim contribution to nuclear non proliferation.

Moreover, Brazil and Argentina have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the Exchange of Information related to Firearms, Ammunitions and Explosives , which allows for an expedient and thorough flow of information of great use for public security forces of both countries.

The Air Operations Assistant is responsible for liaison and coordination with Italian Air Force and Brindisi civilian airport authorities for the safe, expedient and efficient conduct of air operations and, when necessary, the Air Operations Assistant facilitates the processing of diplomatic clearances.

Trade between countries would cease to be what it is, namely a desperate expedient to maintain employment at home by forcing sales on foreign markets and restricting purchases.