Sentences with phrase «as expedient»

As expedient as it might be to blame the root cause on Russian state - sponsored hackers, the reality is that it was caused by operator error.

The central problem of animal sheltering today is that even the best and most progressive shelters still do harm to animals, by employing lethal injection outside the bounds of true euthanasia as an expedient to resolve certain problematic situations.

I think to be as expedient as we possibly can to bring public water to Wainscott has to be goal number one.

Sorry, son, but Jefferson supported slavery as an expedient — «holding a wolf by the ears,» as he put it («you don't like it, but you don't dare let go»)-- while Martin Luther wanted to effectively exterminate an entire ethnic group because he believed they were all Christ - killers, right down to the children.

The main characteristics of his artistic expression include citation, duplication and fragmentation, which are used as expedients for staging the distance between a finished model for making the work a «theatre of evocation.»

Not exact matches

And I basically think that if the answer to that question is no, then you're doing something expedient but you're not doing something as well as you can on that.»

There may be times when this is expedient, but it's considered best practice to avoid using personal credit to pay for business expenses as much as possible.

The company elected the practical expedient to expense all marketing and sales costs as they are incurred.

In the letter, the company said that «succumbing to political pressure to do what is expedient» would fly «in the face of our fiduciary responsibility as stewards of the company for the benefit of shareholders.»

as an atheist and democrat, I always saw Obama as basically a non-believer, who uses religion or pays respect to religion when it is politically appropriate or expedient.

Their law permits them, as a temporary expedient, not to impose it in full in countries where they are in a minority: but in areas within that country which they consider to be Muslim territory and therefore part of the Umma, like large parts of Bradford, say, or certain parts of London, more of Sharia law will be imposed (unknown to the rest of us) than in others.

For, without doing violence to a single organic doctrine, we could avoid the embarrassment of saying that an occasion qua subject is not an entity by the simple expedient of redefining «entity» to signify whatever functions, or is destined to function, as a potential for processes of becoming.

Like the true artist, the political leader must be «violent and willing to use power,» but without normal constraints — in Heidegger's words: «lonely, uncanny, without expedients without law and limit, without structure and order, because as creators, they themselves must lay the foundation for all this.»

«I allow,» said John Wesley, «that it is highly expedient, whoever preaches in his name should have an outward as well as inward call; but that it is absolutely necessary I deny.»

For his lectures Hauerwas chooses the structural expedient of explicating the ideas of three previous Gifford lecturers: William James (whose lectures were published as The Varieties of Religious Experience), Reinhold Niebuhr (The Nature and Destiny of Man) and Karl Barth (The Knowledge of God and the Service of God according to the Teaching of the Reformation).

(As Joshua Reynolds put it in the eighteenth century, «There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking») However, we can keep this problem from getting out of hand if we remember that different kinds of statements are verified in different ways.

But as soon as it became politically expedient to join them, the baptists let go of their inhibitions.

At the worst they promise as much as our modern expedients of soup kitchens and bread lines in time of economic stress.

On Thursday, the archdiocese confirmed that it had offered payoffs to abusive priests as «the most expedient and cost - effective way to have offenders laicized or removed from the priesthood.»

As for myself, it was impossible to believe that if the demon were its author, he could have used, in order to lose me and lead me to hell, an expedient so contrary to his own interests as that of uprooting my vices, and filling me with masculine courage and other virtues instead, for I saw clearly that a single one of these visions was enough to enrich me with all that wealth.&raquAs for myself, it was impossible to believe that if the demon were its author, he could have used, in order to lose me and lead me to hell, an expedient so contrary to his own interests as that of uprooting my vices, and filling me with masculine courage and other virtues instead, for I saw clearly that a single one of these visions was enough to enrich me with all that wealth.&raquas that of uprooting my vices, and filling me with masculine courage and other virtues instead, for I saw clearly that a single one of these visions was enough to enrich me with all that wealth.»

But if, on the other hand, we refuse to regard human socialization as anything more than a chance arrangement, a modus vivendi lacking all power of internal growth, then (excepting, at the most, a few elementary rules safeguarding the living - space of the individual) we find the whole structure of politico - economico - social relations reduced to an arbitrary system of conventional and temporary expedients.

Or should illegal orders be refused, for the moral good of * our * side, as the war needs to end someday, and you don't want soldiers trained to do immoral but expedient and violent acts back amongst * our * citizenry?

The attempt at sustained separation is cavism, tolerable, acceptable, even therapeutic as temporary expedient, but quickly self - defeating since word of earth and, in consequence, Word of God are shut away.

Abram and Sarai may have looked upon her as expendable, and an expedient way to have children, but God sees her differently.

You use Jesus when it is expedient and present him as a powered down version of who he really is.

It is the sense of the fifth commandment in its present place and sequence - taken, that is, in context - that parents are to be honored not in terms of their achievement as persons and parents, certainly not for reasons of sentiment, not at all because the practice is expedient in society or because common sense or common duty demands it.

With such vigor as to reprimand his daughters, Jethro invokes the expedient but gracious principle of Eastern hospitality (the institution of the inn is a development of settled, not semi-nomadic, existence).

If you are stupid enough to use religion as a voting criteria, here are your choices: a guy who committed to one religion and has been living it; or a guy who went to muslim schools, sat in Reverend Wright's Marxist church for 20 years and then dumped both traditions when it was politically expedient.

By 1826 they found it expedient to join forces with the larger American Board, so all their magnificent Indian work was united with that of the Board, and the Presbyterians worked as one with the groups supporting the Board.

He does not treat them as temporary expedients which should be eliminated as soon as possible, but accords them an enduring and significant role in scientific thought.

One expedient was to assign them to monasteries, which became themselves the rectors and the recipients of the revenues.30 Sometimes they undertook to provide for the cure of souls from their own ranks, but of this arrangement there was grievous complaint inasmuch as the only baptismal font was located at the monastery, and the villages might be a dozen miles away.

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Arsenal came out of that awful run, as you will recall, through the simple expedient of changing the format of the defence and going to five at the back.

It is very expedient to buy these mattresses even from little one specialty store, as they are among elite models considered in particular for babies.

The State of Maryland Constitution's first Declaration of Right still reads: [The People] have, at all times, the inalienable right to alter, reform or abolish their Form of Government in such manner as they may deem expedient.

The US and other countries previously formally recognised the Republic of China as an independent state but ceased doing so when it became more expedient to recognise the People's Republic of China.

«When we emerge victorious from the primary, Ms. Gillibrand will be unable to hide from her record as the Most Liberal Senator in Washington and voters will have a stark choice between a businessman who will address our nation's fiscal crisis and a politically - expedient politician.»

She points to the example of the unification of Germany, in which lengthy negotiations for the incorporation of East German citizens were deemed unnecessary, as an example of the «pragmatic and expedient» approach she expects the EU to take.

But the agency has consistently been used by Syracuse mayors, including Miner, as an «expedient» way to hire city employees - or in this case a private contractor — without going through the state civil service system or amending the city budget.

And as November draws closer, there may be more like Cruz who decide it's no longer politically expedient to stay silent in the face of Trump's nomination, to the anger of the howling Trump crowd.

He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient

The state constitution appears to say the governor must address the State of State to the Legislature: «The governor shall communicate by message to the legislature at every session the condition of the state, and recommend such matters to it as he or she shall judge expedient.»

It is always dangerous dealing with people who may be intelligent without depth, shrewd without vision, jocular without humour.People whose friends don't like him and courageously describe them as cold and pompous.We heard Kennedy Agyepong openly insult every soul in the Npp including the flagbearer, we heard him call on Akans to wipe off Gas and Ewes from Ghana and heard Osafo Marfo one personality I hitherto admired so much, declare citizens from some particular regions unfit to occupy the executive seat.Nana did not find these inhuman and obnoxious outbursts as insulting, didn't find it expedient bringing these henchmen to order.We heard Ursula who is a spiritual confidant of Nana painfully say on public platform that had it not been free education, many of our northern appointees would have been managers of cows not human beings.This was how far people who are very close to him went.Antwi another close associate courageously referred to Fantes as «fickle minded» fit only for concert shows.

On the strength of the recommendations of the committee, which were adopted by the House, the House «directs the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Nigerian consulate in South Africa to work together with their South African counterparts, where expedient, in helping to quickly resolve matters regarding passports as well as regularising migrant status of Nigerians, particularly those with South African spouses.»

AYF in a statement signed by its National President, Alhaji Gambo Ibrahim Gujungu and made available to newsmen stated that, «Following the recent upheavals that engulfed the country over the altercation between the Nigerian Army and the now illegal Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, we see it is expedient to raise some issues as as per cursor to future occurrence in the country.»

It would have been both economically sensible and politically expedient to get the pain over as early in the parliament as possible and give the economy as much time as possible to recover.

They say Schneiderman worked hand in hand with Sen. Pedro Espada as well as Monserrate until it was politically expedient not to.

Some of these handouts are politically expedient because they help start a market in which entrenched interests — such as the coal lobby — would otherwise block progress.

A job at a philanthropic foundation can be a more expedient option, and can also serve as a stepping stone into a policy job.

However, it is also defined as «the expedient acceptance of standards that are lower than is desirable» 1.