Outsourcing oversight seems politically expedient given Republicans' push to limit the size of government.
One cannot evade returning money to its rightful owner by the simple expedient of spending it.
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Washington appears poised to forego fundamental reform at the altar of the expedient, yet again.
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It would not be expedient to overtly threaten relations between the U.S. and El Salvador.
If that is the politically expedient solution, the president may well conclude, so be it.
Given the oligarchs' unpopularity, it was politically expedient for Mr Putin to swing one from a lamp-post.
The bulls hope that the economy can escape from this trap by the simple expedient of private-sector growth.
But he might be well advised to conclude that waiting until 2014 would be both statesmanlike and expedient.
And with an election expected sometime next year, keeping his word about Afghanistan may not be politically expedient.
One theory says Giuliani strikes evangelicals as principled in his beliefs, whereas McCain comes off as expedient and shifty.
The alliance has never been popular with the voters, who see it as a political expedient, pure and simple.
Thus far, Herrera has been politically expedient in her quest to gain power.
They hope to work out what dark matter is by the simple expedient of taking a look at it.
Having two separate forces makes little military sense, but it was politically expedient.
And military commanders who are at odds with the government have usually, sooner or later, found it expedient to resign.
In other words, the debt was an issue nobody wanted to talk about because there are no politically expedient answers.
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He can take the politically expedient route, or he can stand up for the cause he claims to believe in.
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But Mr McCain is also a brave politician, who has often tried to do the difficult not the expedient thing.
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Both would seem to be popular choices among other EU nations hoping to make economic reform more expedient and effective.
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It was clear from the start that this bridge is much more than an expedient path between points A and B.
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The devolution of power from Westminster to other parts of the Union is a principle, and not simply a political expedient.
It appeared to have bipartisan support because it offered a politically expedient and relatively painless way for lawmakers to raise money.
It is poor policy and irresponsible government to sacrifice the long-term stability of our society in favour of politically expedient stop-gaps.
But in the end, we all rather piously agreed that we should recommend not what was most expedient but what was right.
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Figure politicians have long showered public money on anything they found expedient.
It keeps other fuels, such as diesel, artificially cheap by the simple expedient of stopping state oil companies from raising their prices.
It does so by the simple expedient of killing the infected cells.
Increasing taxes on entities already paying more than their fair share is politically expedient, but certainly not a way to foster economic growth.
Or perhaps a few show-off greens will resort to an expedient that was seen in wartime Britain huge gas bags on top of their vehicles.
It might be politically expedient for the Obama administration, but America needs GM to be successful, and it only gets one chance to go public.
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