Examples of expedient

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Walking slowly, and indeed walking in circles, are both known expedients when the chants are long and the way is short.
They can become long-stay expedients both for families and for housing authorities wishing to dump tenants, particularly problem families hard to house elsewhere.
The government has resorted to a variety of expedients to deal with teacher shortages.
From this time, several short term expedients were added in haste to allow the partial solution, and to keep the project showing positive progress.
Continued recourse to these expedients, of course, increases the risk of bankruptcy.
In the case of already existing monasteries, any number of expedients were resorted to.
In times of difficulty, there were other expedients.
The dramatic integrity of the original opera was doubtless damaged by these expedients.
Whatever expedients are agreed upon to ease present banking crises, solutions will undoubtedly be as much political as economic.
A whole series of practices and expedients which had been widely used as an organised diplomatic system began to take shape fell into disuse as it became better established.
At the time these changes were justified by the need to maintain social order and the" violations" of individual rights were explained as purely temporary expedients.
Such politically expedient strikes help to account for the upsurge in work stoppages in 1963 and 1964.
A more expedient possibility would be to have the drawing production and measuring occur simultaneously.
Such prioritizing will be essential in allowing us to take these interventions to scale in an expedient and cost-effective manner.
In highly inefficient judiciaries with a low prosecution rate, the commonly proposed expedient of harsher penalties for corruption was shown to cause greater pollution.
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