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How to use expediency in a sentence

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Once Constitution stands in the way of natural justice then it must be rooted out and changed with vigorous expediency.
We should ensure that the government does that work, rather than taking the easy way out and sacrificing justice to expediency.
Through misplaced moralism, political expediency, or apathy, America is ruinously mishandling the underground economy.
Those responsible for the development of the multifunction polis should avoid selection of a site based on political expediency.
We should not be surprised as this is a cold, calculating, hard-hearted Government, one that is wedded to expediency.
Political and financial expediency has influenced the balance between humanitarianism and military necessity.
We are sure, if only out of political expediency and with hindsight, you wish you had not used this language.
Affection, fellow feeling, even gratitude were as nothing compared with political expediency.
They met to deliberate on the expediency or inexpediency of constituting a new Association.
Jefferson's acts as president possess a coherence beyond the accidents of expediency.
With a national election looming next year, the dispute is charged with allegations of political expediency.
Fox said only Conservatives can be so candid, because their Atlanticism is a matter of principle, not strategic expediency.
On that day the principles I stood for and believed in were set aside on the altar of political expediency.
Just as Newman felt liberal politics was out to use the church for political expediency, he also saw this as an element of Monophysitism.
They are not just men sacrificed to expediency, they are not men too civilised for an uncivilised world.
I suppose I have been guilty myself of expediency, in being less than idealistically all-embracing of the boat-people issue!
Expertise was sacrificed for the sake of political expediency, with unfortunate results.
Critics of the plan believe it is rooted as much in political expediency as in a genuine desire to revamp the topmost tier of the legal system.
The group grew out of political expediency, as a source of venture capital for Whig entrepreneurs.
By supporting the status quo they have put political expediency before the interests of our children.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Standing on your own ground of expediency, I am ready to defend my position.
Contrary to Mrs. lozier, they are firm in their conviction of the expediency of mingling the sexes in all scholastic training.
There was in Hazlitt, however, a puritanical fervor which withstood the lure of expediency.
There are some who challenge the expediency of the Imperial character of this realm.
From this statement Congress will judge of the expediency of directing a rehearing in both cases.
It is also quite distinct from expediency, or the idea of benefiting by an act.
It is often said that these creedal councils were moved by considerations of low-grade expediency.
He therefore urged the expediency of remaining at Salamis on other grounds.
Religion is not discovered, but self-created, a sort of sublime expediency.
He said that the doctrine that all powers should emanate from the people is not a question of expediency.
Is there a right and a wrong in the matter, an advisability or an inadvisability, an expediency or an inexpediency?
Saint-Just bows before the argument, sacrificing honor to expediency, the law to his fatherland.
Our modern expediency mongers have made them pro tempore an extinct science.
They are wont to forget that the world is not governed by policy and expediency.
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
Only experience produces judgments of the expediency of some usages.
He argued for the expediency and practicability of African colonization.
He was never tired of looking at it, and even held a council with Eva on the expediency of getting it framed, to hang up in his room.
All marriage forms are only matters of custom and expediency.
If you have never seen that sight, then suspend your decision about the propriety of devil-worship, and the expediency of conciliating the devil.
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