"That was simply an expedient means of getting me into an officer's uniform," Lowell said.

Despite believing in an afterlife, the Klingons perform no burial rites, and dispose of corpses by the most expedient means available.

The Soviets viewed the treaty as merely a necessary and expedient means to end the war.

Although such behavior at times made Bradford uncomfortable, he found it an expedient means of maintaining the treaty with the Pokanoket.

The sutra goes on to say these that the teachings of the three vehicles are merely expedient means (upāya).

We'll have to de termine the most expedient means of punishing him, too: fi some way to remind the Tosevites.

Sublime might have the boy murdered as an expedient means of dulling the Grail Empire's teeth.

A disciple of the Buddha must not himself use false words and speech, or encourage others to lie or lie by expedient means.

The Lotus Sutra contains a famous upaya story about using the expedient means of white lies to rescue children from a burning building.

It differs from demolition where a site is cleared of its building by the most expedient means.