Everyone looks to the great Northern neighbor for direction and mutters about expediency.

This is a policy process driven by political expediency, not by public health.

Durability and resilience, rather than expediency, should determine the time frame of any expansion.

I am afraid that this also reflects once again a growing tendency towards expediency.

We are fighting for a principle that should not be sacrificed at the altar of expediency.

Durability, resilience and expedience, rather than expediency, should determine the time frame for such an expansion.

To turn back would jeopardize the long term strategic interests of both countries for short term political expediency.

But the American election s implications for immigration run deeper than electoral expediency with lessons for governments around the world.

During the occupation, the Løgting was given full legislative powers, albeit as an expediency given the occupation of Denmark.

Tolerance of questionable dealing today for the sake of political expediency will cost more in the future for us all.

In the authors apos opinion, there is no justification, political expediency apart, for the presence of the quot notwithstanding quot clauses.

Moreover, secular spiritual leaders like Gandhi, Schweitzer, and King have vanished, annihilated it seems by our new fetishes success, expediency, gain, and special interests.

Some of their actions and pronouncements suggest that in their pursuit of a strong state, they may be willing to sacrifice law to political expediency.

Nevertheless, it was dictated more by political expediency than humanitarian motives and was not accompanied by a change in the laws to decriminalize illegal exit.

American journalists also know that the government classifies information mostly to spare it embarrassment, or for expediency, rather than because it has genuine national security concerns.

He emphasized that UNDP would support sustainable reform as opposed to measures taken for expediency and would therefore continue to target the social dimensions of adjustment.

Holding free and fair elections may not be the primary issue, but nor are they issues that should be shelved in the interests of stability and expediency.

Holding free and fair elections may not be the primary issue, but nor are they issues that should be shelved in the interests of stability and expediency.

Once again, America s lack of commitment to multilateralism, its obstinacy, and its willingness to put political expediency above principles and even its own national interests has triumphed.

China s belated bouts of openness about the rural spread of AIDS and the SARS epidemic clearly indicate that the central government regards transparency solely as a matter of expediency.

In the name of short term expediency, too little was done to sack corrupt governors and police, or to counter involvement by high level officials in the narcotics trade.

The process of reform was not driven solely by the need to improve efficiency and expediency, but also by a collective commitment to improving the situation of rights holders.

The concept of United Nations collective security is being undermined by the application of double standards to serve the political interests or expediency of certain permanent members of the Council.

Caesar, on his return from Alexandria, seeing the expediency of removing Dolabella from Rome, pardoned him and took him as one of his generals in the expedition to Africa and Spain.

In all of these areas, our aim must be a peaceful, integrated international society in which our sense of the common good increasingly qualifies considerations of national power and immediate expediency.

quot With all the convulsions in global society, only one power is left that can impose order on incipient chaos it is the power of principles transcending changing perceptions of expediency.

We underlined our concern that the concept of United Nations collective security was being undermined by the application of double standards to serve the political interests or expediency of certain members.

In confronting dangers such as the Islamic State, Ebola, financial crisis, climate change, or rising inequality, short term political expediency must be overcome or the entire world will come to regret it.

It noted that measures have been taken to further reduce the backlog of communications in addition, measures have been taken to process with the requisite urgency and expediency particular categories of communications.

It is our duty as leaders to chart a course for a secure energy future. Tolerance of questionable dealing today for the sake of political expediency will cost more in the future for us all.

Latvia wishes to bring to the attention of the General Assembly an ad hoc decision which was made for reasons of financial and political expediency, but which will in fact contribute to the financial crisis.

As a matter of fact, political considerations and expediency of purpose have come to obscure the real issues, and the discussion of these items by the relevant bodies clearly reflects the cynicism of their initiators.

I just do not see how you can possibly divide the two unless you admit that what you decide is not on the principles of justice and what is right but is governed by political expediency.

Any such restriction should take account of the nature and phase of the decision making process and the form of participation sought, and should aim at ensuring the quality, efficiency and expediency of the decision making process.

Some wish to limit the applicability of these principles as a matter of expediency, thereby relegating many of our nations, including the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to third class status within the family of nations under the United Nations Charter.

While progress has not been as rapid as we would like, these signposts point the way to further benefits for Americans and Chinese alike. To turn back would jeopardize the long term strategic interests of both countries for short term political expediency.

First, clear and explicit human rights and democracy clauses should be included, along the lines of similar clauses in the Mexican and Chilean Economic Association treaties with the EU. Second, more specific provisions on labor, the environment, gender equality, and indigenous rights are needed, as well as anti trust, regulatory, and judicial reform provisions, for reasons both of principle and political expediency.