What more expedient way of doing my job is there than coming out and chatting with the bands? |
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It may be expedient to allow the currency to depreciate in order to obtain a rapid improvement in competitiveness. |
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It appears that the administration will attempt to finesse this problem by the blatant expedient of pretending the borrowing never happened. |
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Being political animals, Democrats too often take the most politically expedient path. |
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This is determined by the simple expedient of the listener holding a microphone to locate their position in the room. |
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Judges throughout the federal judiciary rely on the assistance of law clerks to ensure the smooth and expedient administration of justice. |
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Memory space is limited, so we have to use it economically, storing as little as possible and forgetting as soon as is expedient. |
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Policing is only practicable and therefore expedient if the court acting in that role has power to enforce its powers if disobeyed. |
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The latter expedient, common in North America, was much less so in England. |
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In the case of Japanese traditional arts, the vehicle of this double transformation, the expedient means, is regular training or practice. |
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For example, a two-echelon formation is the most typical and possibly the most expedient one in a given situation. |
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Clearly, the number of weapons and munitions of each type, which it is expedient to use against each possible enemy force, will be different too. |
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It was decided that creating a new line on the south side of the river would be the most expedient method to effect a double-track railroad. |
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Although they offer a convenient and expedient method of obtaining a handful of cash, there is a significant downside to the business. |
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While it may now be considered politically expedient to ignore this eternal truth it will never go away. |
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We are dealing with secular humanists, and while we are on earth, what is expedient, and convenient, will pass for truth and morality. |
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Perhaps they are in denial that he could have been the perpetrator of such serious offences, or maybe it is politically expedient to ignore them. |
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His positions have perfectly tracked whatever was politically expedient at the moment. |
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With a state election only weeks away, it was expedient to hijack an existing party rather than set up their own structures. |
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Such expedient measures can be made to work, but their common fault is that they are almost always too low. |
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It may be convenient, it may be expedient, but it is not the human condition to be without beliefs. |
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Now the party will have to pay the piper for doing the expedient thing instead of the right thing. |
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That, in part, is why the west has always provided a politically expedient cover for warmongering. |
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To be expedient, we must act within the bounds of international law consistent with consensus among the emerging allied coalition. |
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I support joint activities with our ally when it is proper or expedient to do so. |
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Under this constitution, rights are left to the mercy of predators such as Howard and expedient windbags like Beazley. |
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In truth it is the genetic similarity between humans and primates that makes experimenting on them expedient. |
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No problem arises without them finding the most practical and expedient solution. |
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This apparent lack of the respect for the dead led to criticism, but it was a necessary expedient. |
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They all go together, no matter how convenient or expedient it is to try to separate them. |
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No universal rule can be laid down, but often an expedient can be used to provide reasons without revealing confidential or privileged evidence. |
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From National Review to the Wall Street Journal, the usual suspects have been banging away at the expedient scandal. |
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The western leaders confidently pose as self-appointed custodians of democracy, an expedient ploy to win over public opinion. |
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The monarchs of Ayutthaya found it expedient to enter into a tributary relationship with the Chinese emperors. |
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How neurological the problem is, or how politically expedient, is a moot point. |
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Was Georgia a wholesome, egalitarian Utopia or an expedient way to harden the soft underbelly of the Southern colonies? |
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By the simple expedient of renting a lovely French aristocrat, the froideur turns to fun, and the surly city becomes all smiles and elegance. |
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It was politically expedient for Vandemonians to distract attention from events on their island to those on an island far away. |
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Responsible statesmen and stateswomen are not merely free, as sovereign rulers, to act in an expedient way. |
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Deeming it expedient to move away, he became steward in the household of Sir Thomas Arundel, one of the king's courtiers. |
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Perhaps these stiflers of free press have had some profound conversion or just found it expedient for purposes of re-election. |
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We are rapidly becoming a tawdry, mean, opportunistic and expedient culture, which I suppose reflects our political leadership on both sides. |
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In addition, he frequently appears to be sidestepping awkward questions by the simple expedient of behaving as if you have asked something completely different. |
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That tape will prove far more persuasive than any expedient and mealy mouthed evasions. |
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To avert this situation, and ultimately to consolidate strategic stability, it is expedient to limit search activity against missile armed submarines. |
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The earliest military museums were arsenals, but since many of these have since become famous military museums it is expedient to regard them as the forerunners of the genre. |
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Federal prosecutors are free to cherry-pick high-profile or politically expedient cases, knowing that the cases they reject probably will be prosecuted in state court. |
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However, the giant pre-empted him by the simple expedient of hauling the prostrate felon off the ground by his hair and then dropping him when Grundle had scrambled clear. |
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By the simple expedient of asking a public official about a rumor and recording the fact that he didn't comment, the AP and countless newspapers have propagated the report. |
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He acknowledged implicitly that there can be a difference between what is right and what is convenient, or politically expedient, or electorally popular. |
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The standard of care imposed under section 4 depends, fundamentally, on what is considered expedient and reasonable in terms of general banking practice. |
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It seems a timely and expedient move that a number of agencies within the federation power structures started monitoring engineer preparation of the national territory. |
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But the ultimate decision as to whether it is possible and expedient to hold the elections at any given point of time must rest with the Election Commission. |
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I do not expect a reasonable or even expedient response to this question. |
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Yet in practice this apparently simple expedient is frequently impossible. |
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In the course of the struggle with the unfortunate ethnarch, the nobles had found it expedient to attach themselves to Rome. |
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As such, he repeatedly took advantage of expedient moments to press the English monarchy for concessions and support of the reform agenda. |
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NuLab will give an Eartha Kitt for as long as it is politically expedient to do so, and not a moment longer. |
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The government thought it expedient, occasionally, to connive at the violation of this rule. |
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Not so circumscribed in expedient for the reduction of surplus wealth were those lairds of the lariat who had womenfolk to their name. |
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He would never let her know that he was aware of the strange expedient to which she had been driven by her great distress. |
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Consequently, in 1841 the RAC found it expedient to sell Fort Ross and the surrounding fields to John Sutter for 30,000 piasters. |
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Industry doth beget by producing good habits, and facility of acting things expedient for us to do. |
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Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a greater good to a less. |
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It shall be expedient, after that body is cleaned, to rub the body with a coarse linen cloth. |
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We must have recourse to the old Roman expedient in times of confusion, and chose a dictator. |
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However an increase in the bench of bishops was not considered politically expedient, and so steps were undertaken to prevent it. |
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This arrangement was seen as expedient, however, as Godwin had been implicated in the murder of Alfred, the king's brother. |
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It was designed as an expedient testbed for their new engine, rather than a true prototype vehicle. |
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Willibrord may have felt it expedient to leave Northumbria, where he was known as one of Wilfrid's followers. |
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But before doing so he thought it to be expedient to put his house in order, so that he might be able to make a statement of his affairs if asked to do so. |
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For the procedures of ideological exposure by expedient analysis. |
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A runaway defense budget, responding to widespread perception of military inadequacies by the usual government expedient of throwing money at the problem. |
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Since Alberti's additions to Santa Maria Novella in Florence, this was usually achieved by the simple expedient of linking the sides to the centre with large brackets. |
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This expedient has since been generally considered satisfactory for most purposes and makes possible the use of the simpler Stephenson, Joy and Walschaerts motions. |
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Most people, faced with a decision, will choose the most expedient option. |
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Hariri's endorsement of Aoun for the presidency on Thursday is a dramatic and expedient marriage of opposing political camps that have been at each other's throats for years. |
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Government has slowly but positively moved from an active course of following plans and policies to the easier and more expedient course of the counterpuncher. |
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This method is widely used due to its simplicity and speed, especially as an expedient method when the material is placed under unfavorable conditions of water or temperature. |
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