Sentences with phrase «expedient of»

Between the various issues below and the simple expedient of another team working on a project that's been primarily created by someone else, PC ports often fall into the cracks of the corporate world and get released with major problems that aren't present or noticeable on the console release.

In spite of such clearly available product, in actual practice, the local offices of these companies refuse to accept such proposals by the simple expedient of returning the proposal papers without encashing your premium cheque.

If covered entities were able to circumvent the requirements of these rules by the simple expedient of contracting out the performance of various functions, these rules would afford no protection to individually identifiable health information and be rendered meaningless.

Moreover, it is pointed out at para 43 that ``... an employer who wants to be certain that his employee is aware of the dismissal can revert to the prosaic expedient of informing the employee in a face - to - face interview that he or she has been dismissed».

«For example, the minister has removed the need for the MIB's detailed and arcane procedures by the simple expedient of making it obligatory to join the MIB as a party in any action.

This is because it is a relatively straightforward calculation to predict the boil - down time to when the fuel is uncovered (several days) at which the risk of hydrogen generation and deflagration occurs, so just why the simple and obvious expedient of providing cooling water via a temporary pump (i.e. a fire tender) was not implemented by TEPCO in a timely manner is baffling.

This is actually a problem I have with many mice, one which has been solved by other companies through the simple expedient of introducing a curved wing for gamer's fingers to rest on, but for whatever reason this seems to be a practice not yet widely adopted.

Nilin gets access to a handy blaster of sorts that's attached to her arm fairly early on in the game, which is sometimes in used in fights, as mentioned before, but mostly used to open doors by the simple expedient of shooting them, an idea that's never really adequately explained, though I'm sure that we can all chalk that one down to the simple reasoning of it being a game, and that a lot of stuff doesn't make sense in games anyway.

The most common of the win conditions, appearing on a total of 3 out of the 7 Personality cards, is to win by pure domination, controlling a specific number of the twelve available territories on the map, which is done by the simple expedient of having more playing pieces in that area than any other player.

If it is, you can avoid small litters by the simple expedient of breeding only to PHA - negative mates.

New (or lost) alleles can be brought into a line by the simple expedient of outcrossing.

Of the four men in the room — Conistone, Adam Dalgliesh, Assistant Commissioner Harkness and a fresh - faced boy from MI5 who had been introduced as Colin Reeves — Conistone, the one most concerned with the matter in hand, had so far said the least while Reeves, preoccupied with the effort of remembering what was being said without the humiliating expedient of being seen to take notes, hadn't yet spoken.

As for indies, they can also go «out of print» by the simple expedient of the author withdrawing the book from sale.

In the same way that even the most hapless handyman could improve on a room previously decorated by the simple expedient of dropping a live hand grenade into an open tin of paint and retiring to a safe distance, you would justifiably expect this second - generation Mini Countryman to represent a considerable improvement over its predecessor.

By the seemingly obvious expedient of offering the public what it wanted — a powerful engine option, compact size for carlike handling and garageability, and four - door convenience — Jeep has tapped directly into the growing number of consumers who choose trucks instead of cars.

Honda fitted a 7 - inch screen it calls Display Audio in the same space by the expedient of lopping off the already - not - so - big buttons including ones marked Audio, Phone, Map, Zoom In, Zoom Out.

Toyota and Lexus have taken front - drive hybrids and made them all - wheel - drive with the simple expedient of putting an electric motor at the rear of the vehicle.

The Japanese firms helped achieve a reputation for quality in its foreign markets by the simple expedient of building a year's production in its domestic market.

,» admirably showcasing the uniquely French side of the merged companies and the venerable Gallic habit of elevating one's humblest products by giving them not just a decent ride, but a great ride, thanks to the classical expedient of providing substantial amounts of wheel travel.

In Richard Donner's Lethal Weapon, he upped the conventional post-48 Hours buddy - buddy cop pic by the simple expedient of making the lead (Mel Gibson) a crazed unpredictable nihilist.

A colleague who read the column quickly fired back an explanation, garnered by the simple expedient of asking a...

Militant's tactics were to take over moribund constituency parties by the simple expedient of joining the party, getting themselves elected to local committees and then boring and antagonising more moderate members into resigning.

Avoiding dodgy votes by the somewhat unusual expedient of simply not holding them is frowned upon in the Lords, which takes these matters extremely seriously.

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.

Wales were dominating possession by the simple expedient of passing the ball around the back four, but had never threatened to construct anything progressive; Ramsey and Ledley were disappointing in midfield, the Arsenal man in particular lacking sharpness.

He did this by the simple expedient of declaring the mountains open for foot racing and then charging off into the mists.

«It is quite possible to form a reasonably «exact judgment» of the «strength» of a sample of the drug [capsaicin] by the simple expedient of testing its pungency.

One should perhaps stress here that Fish is not arguing that Milton is an idealist, in the sense of someone who believes that «thinking makes it so» and that un happy situations can be simply wished away by the cheap expedient of declaring them otherwise.

It was avoided by the expedient of having an Anglican service, conducted by Anglican ministers, to which «all baptized believers» were invited.

This became most evident with his 2000 book Papal Sin, one of several recent books from liberal Catholics trying to argue for their brand of Catholicism by the simple (if vulgar) expedient of beating up on the reputation of Pius XII.

Moreover, the fundamental error in the judge's statement can be seen by the simple expedient of a counter example: should a white supremacist attack an African American man it would be considered a hate crime without regards to what anyone was saying at the time.

All the more so, of course, because the Church's own teaching denies him the expedient of a «double truth», and does not permit him to adapt the Church's doctrine by some de-mythologizing or other re-interpretation, in order to reconcile it with his scientific conviction.

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).

His death rated a segment on the PBS News Hour, during which the inconvenient fact that Seeger had been a member of the U.S. Communist Party for years was finessed by the expedient of noting that he had eventually left the Party.

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.

It is quite obviously the expedient of a man who has been driven to seeking a scapegoat, and has found with relief the most famous scapegoat in European history, the Jewish people.»

If then we need to look elsewhere in order to find room for temporality in divine freedom, the temptation is strong to furnish it by the simple expedient of transferring a few responsibilities from the primordial to the consequent nature.

Catharine Beecher, sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher, argued against women's suffrage on the grounds that «women could influence public affairs very satisfactorily without recourse to the ballot box, by the simple expedient of influencing the opinions and outlook of those who did have the vote — their husbands and sons» (Reay Tannahill, Sex in History, [Stein & Day], 1980, p. 389).

And yeah, they abuse the system — they just backed a * State * down from bringing charges against them by the simple expedient of tying them (WBC) up with counter-charges in court.

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

Not exact matches

Ultimately, she writes, «the good of neither the accused nor society is served without the recognition that the integrity of the system must be set above the expedient purposes of either side.»

So technical debt is sort of like when you make short - term, expedient decisions in the technology that sort cost you later.

Someone should explain to the sales people of this product that the penalty for white collar crime in China is pretty expedient... it's called Execution.

Completely scrap the the funding for private schools, but in the event it's not politically expedient for the government heading into an election, at least consider a reduction in funding levels to financially aid the public system and alleviate some of the pressures they currently are experiencing with class size, lack of teachers and the challenges inherent in providing school lunch programs.

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.»

If you would, you'd realize that this was just a nice way of saying «we found this guy out and are removing him,» in a politically expedient manner.

Professor of political science at Columbia University Andrew J. Nathan is keen on the tenacity of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to survive and stay in power, by its selective responses to the demands of certain sectors of Chinese populace and expedient reforms and relatively democratic ways within the government — all are to him, indications of...

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.

It just became politically expedient for Graham to declassify Mormonism, given the fact that Romney, a Mormon, was the presidential nominee of his beloved GOP.

In a passage not without its element of dry wit, he dissects the pathetic expedient to which Adam and Eve felt driven: