noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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political
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What are needed are more Mario Cuomos, politicians who are prepared to put moral and practical argument above political expediency .
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Now, once again, the thin reed of refugee protection has fallen prey to the winds of political expediency .
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They are politics of political expediency .
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But localised flood prevention solutions often have implications for other areas and political expediency should not determine the solution.
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These rates are clearly a trade-off between economic logic and political expediency .
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This is often a legacy of historic inception, piecemeal development, and political expediency .
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Perhaps it had been a matter of legal or political expediency .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The governor vetoed this bill out of political expediency rather than principle.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And a system whose first and last resort was all too often expediency .
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And this production, played on a red-carpeted traverse stage, brings out excellently the mixture of bombast and expediency .
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But his actions were perhaps not entirely a matter of cynical expediency .
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But localised flood prevention solutions often have implications for other areas and political expediency should not determine the solution.
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Dooley made popcorn, and Barnabas did his business at the hedge with great expediency .
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He would continue to make most of his decisions on the basis of military expediency .
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It was for Congress to determine the question of expediency .
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The potential for expediency in planning is vast.