Such politically expedient language has a strategic downside.

The consequences of choosing this inadequate, if expedient, route are serious.

Though his ties to jihadists may be expedient rather than ideological, they are deeply worrying.

But, if tax increases are not politically expedient, policymakers should proceed with old fashioned deficit spending.

Thus, the Obama administration may find it more politically expedient to seek a deal with Iran.

We allowed convenient cultural stereotyping to sustain what we believed was the expedient pursuit of our national interest.

Many people advocate the simple expedient of strengthening Abbas as a moderate, but one cannot strengthen a wet noodle.

The seventeenth century French philosopher René Descartes solved it by the drastic expedient of denying that animals can suffer.

It is a very dangerous expedient, one that undermines standards of value, renders economic calculation virtually impossible, and redistributes wealth at random.

Such cases seem to point to the return of a European past in which democracy s failures gave way to more expedient forms of government.

Prevented from criticizing the country s leaders and reporting fully and objectively on domestic affairs, China s media often finds it expedient to turn its critical gaze outwards.

An infrastructure program oriented in this way as opposed to a grab bag of politically expedient shovel ready projects should be able to muster conservative support.

With China's rapid growth increasingly affecting a wide range of issues worldwide, it has become expedient for US presidential candidates to blame China for some of America's domestic problems.

Our politicians are right (and not merely expedient) to insist that the current conflict is not with Islam an extremely heterogeneous faith that recognizes no authoritative source of doctrinal interpretation.

Having considered and rejected the idea of a duel, Karenin turned his thoughts to divorce, the next expedient of which some of the wronged husbands he remembered had availed themselves.

Thus, the Obama administration may find it more politically expedient to seek a deal with Iran. If Iran displays a real willingness to compromise, the West should hold off on the new sanctions.

She shared her travail of entering Israel this week in order to get to Palestine, the most expedient way to arrive internationally far quicker than landing in Amman, Jordan, and driving to the Israel controlled West Bank.

During a 1999 trial of Yemenis convicted of kidnapping 16 Europeans, it emerged that the group s ringleader called al Ahmar during the ordeal. Though his ties to jihadists may be expedient rather than ideological, they are deeply worrying.

Unilateralism seems very expedient to shortsighted politicians, for it obviates the need for what they perceive as the mess of actual negotiations that is, meeting their counterparts face to face and discovering the human results of their policies. Going it alone also seems politically advantageous domestically, because leaders can decide how much and how far they want to carry out a particular policy.