Sentences with phrase «expedient thing»

Caveat: Given the enormous difficulty some readers / commenters have had lately in focusing on the point of the post, I'm constrained to make a few things clear: First, clearly the most expedient thing for the shopper to do was be compliant, do as he was told and then walk away.

Most parents do the expedient thing to get their little one to sleep — they allow him to nurse or have a bottle, lay down with him, or snuggle him into the parent's bed and hope for another few hours of rest.

Tutu did not feel particularly called; it just seemed an expedient thing to do.

The convenient and expedient thing to do in your situation (where your version of Christianity is called into question) is to cherry - pick those bible verses that suit your need.

But these colors were the expedient things to use for the way I drew and I say «draw» not meaning line, though it might have included line.

Not exact matches

Paul said all things are not expedient.

All things are lawful, but not all things are expedient; all things are lawful, but not all things edify (I Cor.

«The serial attacks by those boys in Ikorodu are becoming a thing of worry for the police in the state; the police considered it imperative and expedient to seek for partnership of vigilante groups in Ikorodu, led by the OPC.

Most important, Tedra Cobb is not afraid of doing the right thing when special interests exert pressure to do what's expedient... Read More»

Should the attitude of being a mature opposition, supporting the Government when it is doing the right thing, be scrapped in favour of bashing Labour whenever it might be politically expedient to do so?

It was much more expedient to move forward and work with the existing plan without feeling like I would be setting things back.

My own take on this is that people will take the short - term most efficiently expedient actions, which is also the worst thing they can do — they will keep putting those new coal - fired energy plants online or create nuclear fission plants that create radioactive waste that can't be disposed of....

The question for us to consider is whether we possess the political will and moral courage to do things other than continue down the politically convenient and economically expedient «primrose path» so adamantly and relentlessly pursued by too many leaders of the global economy.