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.
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.
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.
In other words, the debt was an issue nobody wanted to talk about because there are no politically expedient answers.
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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.
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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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.
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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If you do that, however, it can be expedient to schedule some re-entry time to catch up on messages before you return to your desk.
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Gasp, a candidate doing what is expedient to win an election!
In our negotiation, time after time, despite such dire statements, where the Japanese found it expedient to accommodate our demands a way was found to do so.
Thus it might prove more expedient to invest in this at least tried technology, which could extend the useful lifetime of nuclear power by hundreds of years.
It is just possible that even this dramatic gesture will not save Rupert Murdoch from a politically expedient referral to the Competition Commission and a full, transparent investigation.
Microsoft was forced to pursue customers in less expedient fashion.
Ms Livni's stand is similarly expedient as well as principled.
Now that more people are reaching retirement age with accounts upended by the Great Recession, an expedient solution is to sell the vacation home and sock away the cash.
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