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

Even the women were outside; that had been accomplished by the simple expedient of going back in and pushing them out.

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

Liberals explain this history by the simple expedient of lying.

He did this by the simple expedient of telling me that I didn't look very well.

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

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

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

The quality of scientific literature could be improved by some simple expedients.

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