"I kept the bullet from you in the most expedient way, and then you defended me effectively."

It's an open secret that Osborne is waiting for a politically expedient way to scrap the 50p top rate of income tax.

He saw it as getting what he wanted in the most expedient way possible.

Why that should have anything to do with the expedient way Olympic decisions are made beats me.

"We knew he had made the claim, and it seemed the most expedient way to get it resolved," the lawyer said.

But members are beholden in other, arguably more expedient ways as well.

You always have to do things the expedient way.

He obviously felt that this was the quickest and most expedient way to get her out of his life.

That was the expedient way of getting things done.

An expedient way to obtain these coefficients is the following.