expedient

It may also have been an expedient thing to do.

But for that right, he always took the most expedient course.

"So it seemed like the expedient thing to do was to help her."

It seems more expedient than ever to have one in the department.

They, and the west, wait to see what is expedient.

I care about doing the right thing, not what's currently expedient.

All the same, most of the time it was expedient to follow where the church led.

Too often the only questions asked are: What is the expedient thing to do to save the system?

But that has nothing to do with quality of care; it is simply expedient.

The expedient thing would be to keep with the precedent.

But it did not seem expedient to argue that case at the moment.

She wanted him to do the expedient thing, regard- less what it cost her.

This way, we can share new music with you in the most expedient fashion.

We use the resources that are most expedient and appropriate to the situation.

Or was it simply that the other options had become less expedient?

In her culture, the far more expedient thing to do would be to find a husband and ma his house for him.

For decades, most states have taken the easy, politically expedient approach.

The only concern was for the expedient method to save the system.

But it would not be expedient to express his doubt to her.

He would see only one practical and expedient solution to the situation.

These are dilemmas we face every day: to do the right thing, or the expedient one.

It is expedient that they move in here at once."

He felt less than heroic in this role, but knew it was the expedient course.

The President's action was expedient and probably necessary, but it made him uneasy.

Who says there's no difference between the two most powerful and expedient politicians of our day?

In this case, a number of expedients can be used.

The method used was no more than an ancient expedient.

The next best expedient, it has been thought, therefore, is to pay them for buying.

They had been following each other by the not always simple expedient of actually touching the one ahead.

My uncle, however, was one of those men who are nearly always prepared with expedients.

He thought it, therefore, better to employ a different expedient.

All these were just expedients to hold a lung still so it could get well.

Nor even, if it comes to that, as a passing expedient.

He would win over these soldiers by the simplest expedient of all.

He'd found out where they were by the simple expedient of asking a servant.

He thought about it for a while, then attempted a desperate expedient.

The Shadow knew; for he had used the expedient on other occasions.

A system must be in every economy, or the best single expedients are of no avail.

That thought brought a vague possible expedient into his fertile mind.

Then he fell back upon another very primitive and ancient expedient.

And even when the economy is humming, it's a questionable expedient.

They found the control computer easily enough, by the simple expedient of looking for the one that was physically different from the others.

And moral outrage at the use of simple expedients can still run high.

The boys looked at him expectantly, and he thought of expedients.

They have expedients for dealing with people, and none know their limit.

But when such came his way he invariably adopted the same simple expedient.

I thought of several other expedients, but upon consideration discarded them, for cause.

It was necessary to abandon this expedient, but others were soon discovered.

Many were the expedients tried by means of which some amusement might be extracted from life.

The present situation is a temporary expedient while we work it out."