I shall propose an expedientto you, that you may take your places as you come: he who comes first, the first place, and he who comes last, the lower place.
Why should they have thought it expedient to suppress the Koran when it was printed in Venice, 1530?
Especially in the composition of plays was it judged expedient to minister to the depraved public taste by indecent expressions, or allusions broad and sly.
Nevertheless, the government found it expedient to countenance the vulgar delusion; indeed, the political system was actually founded upon it.
When she succeeded in replacing the key in her husband's waistcoat pocket on the following night, she made up her mind to employ the same expedient for reading every fresh letter that arrived.
His constant dream was to devise some expedient by which he might live at his ease without having to do anything.
It was a clever expedient for ascending the first rung of the social ladder, for raising himself above his station.
His inability to hit upon any immediateexpedient for obtaining his share of the money and satisfying his desire of revenge increased his fury.
They were both endeavouring to find some expedient for seeing each other again, when Miette suddenly begged him to go away; she had just caught sight of Justin, who was crossing the grounds in the direction of the wall.
Before abandoning the guns so briefly held, they had spiked them with mud, and the novel expedient was perfectly successful.
But he realized in time that such drastic methods were neither expedient nor necessary.
Though suicide is such a simple and obvious expedient in difficulties, yet there are scores who do not commit it because they never think of it.
At last the thought of transferring the Guy Fawkes expedient from the land to the ocean, which, once the deed was successfully accomplished, would tell no tale, occurred to them.
He ransacked his memory, called up all his reading, all his observation, all that he had heard-- every expedient and plan that had come under his notice for gaining an end.
And because England was of the same religion, and lay next to us, it was judged expedient first to approach her rulers.
It was thought expedient that a cunyie[147] should be erected, so that every nobleman might cunyie his silver to supply the immediate necessity.
For avoidance of dangers, it is expedient that the banns be publicly proclaimed on three Sundays, unless the persons be so known that no suspicion of danger may arise, when the banns may be shortened at the discretion of the ministry.
Therefore we think this order expedientto be observed before and after excommunication.
We therefore think it expedient simply to declare how that matter was first moved, and by what means it came to pass that the Queen and Council of England showed themselves so favourable to us.
We think it expedient that, in private houses, the most grave and discreet person use the Common Prayers at morn and at night, for the comfort and instruction of others.
We think it most expedient that the Scriptures be read in order, that is, that some one book of the Old and the New Testament be begun and orderly read to the end.
The sermon ended, the gentlemen of Lothian, who then were earnest professors of Christ Jesus, thought it not expedient that Master George should remain in Leith, as the Governor and Cardinal were shortly to come to Edinburgh.
And last, said he, "I do not think it expedient that, when preachers are so scarce, ye two should be any long time absent from the Lords.
But the Use of this Expedient can be known only by Experience.
It was considered by this same committee "a most valuable expedient in the system of secondary punishment.
But he himself, as much as in him lies, by his philosophy taking away vice, which it is not expedient to take away, does something repugnant both to reason and God.
It is expedient also to take notice of the different carriage of a wise man and of a soothsayer popularly courting the multitude.
The expedient to which the type described by Freud has recourse is "infantile transference," by means of which he projects phantasy into the object and finds a compensation for the difficulties of life in this transfiguration.
It was certainly very expedient for man to be able to give his life a direction; it would, therefore, be quite right to maintain that the attainment of reasonableness was the greatest achievement of mankind.
A second expedient is dream analysis; this is the real instrument of psychoanalysis.
Besides the calabozos connected with the courts were other dungeons in various parts of the prison, some of them quite dark, intended for the reception of those whom it might be deemed expedient to treat with peculiar severity.
Armand Carron of Finistère did not think it right or expedient to cast doubt on the genuineness of the communication.
Order in Council declaring itexpedient that the Government should take control of the railways of the United Kingdom.
The anti-Charterists were composed of groups in favour of responsible Government, or of Crown Colony Government as a step to that, or of inclusion in the South Africa Union, though this last expedient had few advocates.
The Amending Bill was a temporary expedient which might tide over an interval of great danger.
In the latter instance, the unjust compulsion is much smaller, but at the same time the whole expedient is much less productive to the state; and hence the former is the more usual.
We well know the solid reason that may be opposed to sarcasm of this nature; but is it expedient to lay one’s self open to it?
I went secretly, and by the roundabout way you describe, because I had another purpose in visiting Sibley, which made it expedient for me to conceal my presence in the town.
Imogene," he said, "what could have induced you to resort to an expedient so dreadful?
A more childish expedient than that to which he now resorted is not to be found in all the tones of the casuists.
He therefore thought it expedient to affect for a time a clemency and moderation which were by no means congenial to his disposition.
In the House of Commons, no member thought it expedient to propose the repeal of the Test Act.
And might not the same plea be urged in defence of a minister who, when no other expedient would avail, paid greedy and lowminded men not to ruin their country?
But this expedient is in preparation for a season when it is important to have copious magazines, and when, their activity being relaxed, it is unnecessary for their communications to be so spacious and free.
This long impunity served only to increase their cruelty and temerity; and it was at last deemed expedient by Lieutenant Governor Davy to declare the whole island under the operation of martial law.
He was quite ready to be rude again, but women know how to avoid these shallow places better than men, with a policy which is not always expedient perhaps.
Except for the sake of the record--and we cannot really be expected in these busy times to live for generations past or yet unborn-- except for the record it would have been more expedient that Henry should fail and Luke succeed.
The Croonah ran round Europa Point into fine weather, and the wise old captain--who felt the pulse of the saloon with unerring touch-- deemed it expedient to pin upon the board the notice of a ball to be given on the following night.
Each man did that which seemed to him expedientfor the safety of the ship.
Mrs. Harrington turned to Eve again with a faint reflex of her overbearing manner towards the Ingham-Bakers and other persons who found it expedient to submit.
An expedient struck the child's fertile brain; and she darted across the hall, and, possessing herself of the key of the corresponding room, darted back again and applied it to the lock.
Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is expedient for you that I go away.
It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I go away, I will send Him unto you.
It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I go, I will send Him unto you.
But Christ's language is the very opposite of this; He says, not that it is needful to abide, but that it is expedient to depart.
The Scots were tormented in the old fashion by the archers, and Fife and Douglas failed to attempt the only possible, if forlorn, expedient to stay them--a determined charge of cavalry.
At his wits’ end, William tried the expedient of a feigned retreat; and the French on the right recoiled, to all seeming broken and beaten, down the slope.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "expedient" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
