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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

The Committee also recommends that the State party take the necessary measures to guarantee the right to adequate housing to all persons residing under its jurisdiction and to address the problem of the lack of adequate social housing units in the most expedient manner possible, particularly in Baku.

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.

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

Her whole manner!

My manner, sir.

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.

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

It's my manner, sir.

What manner of Harith?

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.

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.

Form and manner of publication

His manner was not effusive.

His manner was not effusive.

And in this manner exactly.

What manner of judgment is this?

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.

The Clinton Administration did not deny the nature of these rights but did not find it politically expedient to engage in a battle with Congress over the Covenant.

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.

Clearly, responses to conflicting political interests are often cast in religious terms, but that is only an expedient disguise used by those pursuing narrow political and national objectives.

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.

John Maynard Keynes, who wrote the rules along with Harry Dexter White, viewed capital controls not as a temporary expedient but as a permanent feature of the global economy.