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Mr Obama needs to embrace centrism as a matter of conviction rather than flirting with it as an instrument of political expediency.

With such a stark contrast between reality and political expediency, there is bound to be bad legislation as a result.

Abortion repeal is not a question of political expediency. it is part of something greater.

I hear a preacher announce for his text and topic the expediency of one of the institutions of his church.

It has become clear that the distinction between adaptation and adaptive strategies is more or less a question of expediency.

Compromise seems too strong a word, but the greater sense of expediency reflects Apple's new place in the world.

The constant theme of this book is the tension between the demands of justice and the victims and those of political expediency.

The strategic reserve should be kept for a real emergency, not squandered for reasons of political expediency.

It had planted the seeds of violent extremism and sacrificed long-term stability to expediency.

It was not lost on them that Mr Kan pointedly failed to direct his apology to North Korea, which suggests some political expediency.

That sets up a possible clash with the centralist-minded PP, although the party weakens on devolution when political expediency requires.

Our post office specializes in attending to units' and individuals' mail orders all over China with expediency and accuracy.

But, like the elections themselves, its credibility has been mortgaged to political expediency.

so the pressure to adopt a "churn mentality" within a bank can be compounded when it becomes the product of expediency.

We never fake orgasms. Okay, once in a while we do. But only for the sake of expediency.

Part of it was simply expediency; there wasn't time to rewrite everything to use . NET.

Companies with a lot of this type of debt are in a big hurry, willing to trade ever-decreasing velocity for expediency of delivery.

The answer is through a combination of political expediency, inept tactics and fumbled diplomacy.

Hence a means for expediency emerges as a principle and a necessity.

Establishing a lasting, fair and resilient democracy, however, requires not expediency but hard work, compromise and consensus-building.

For the sake of practical expediency He is an ambitious politician, guided by expediency rather than principle.

Of course, not all Asian countries have the budget flexibility or political expediency to deliver blockbuster stimulus packages.

The are shown the expediency of prophylactic antibiotics administration during cesarean section.

Political parties run on expediency, not ideology, which makes it possible to cobble together all manner of oddball coalitions.

For expediency, it forms part of corporate Q-HSE (Quality, Health, Safety & Environment) meetings.

Take a firm stand against putting expediency above principle ; bluff ahead of facts .

A close reading of China's behavior amid the evolving events in Sudan indicates that strategic expediency trumps principle and rhetoric.

Thus developing export trade is obviously not an expediency but a long term strategy.

So keep simplicity at the back of your mind all the time, and don't confuse it with expediency, which is the path of least resistance.

He blames Ms Tymoshenko for sacrificing the ideology of the 2004 orange revolution to political expediency and populism.

All his actions are governed by expediency.

China is committed to advancing China-EU relations. This is not an expediency, but a long-term strategic policy.

Politicians are now overlaying expediency with ideology.

A child with a repertory illness has a life expediency 10 years shorter than average.

He acted out of expediency, not principle.

Expediency was not something he knew much about.

Actions that represented the ultimate in political expediency.

Others see it as the triumph of expediency over principle.

The crafty lawyer was influenced more by expediency than by the love of justice.

But in the argument between justice and expediency, both must have their say.

Will he soon be forced to sacrifice putting a price on carbon for political expediency?

Until earlier this year he was secretary of Iran's powerful Expediency Council.

But this policy of expediency only encourages others to try the same con.

There is a grand tradition in Washington of creating enemies for the sake of political expediency.

It's much more a matter of expediency than anything illicit.

Today, more than ever before, we depend on the expediency brought about by such modern devices as phones.

This Papacy has repeatedly declared its fidelity to Vatican II, in order to then betray it for reasons of political expediency.

But Bosnians concluded that, even when the EU sets tough conditions, political expediency will find a way round them.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

The mode and manner, the expediency and format of your evolution is your own creation, and that is by individual design.

A decision based on principle rather than expediency.

to achieve the data's collection such as fee rate and extract oil etc, and that is expediency to assay and transact immediately.

That is what justifies government action, not only for short-term expediency but also in the long run.

It is what it is, a matter of expediency.

The Discussion of the Security, Environmental Protection, Economy and Expediency of Usage of Natural Gas

twisting the Basic Law for political expediency

Long term evolution over short term expediency

Coercion and Expediency: the Influence on the Vicissitudes of Tax System of China