Expediencies

Henry Kaufman, the esteemed economist who is president of Henry Kaufman Co., warns that Congress is "accommodating short-term expediencies for the health of the economy and the financial markets at the cost of the long-term requirements for protecting the stability of the system." ❋ Unknown (2010)

We seek to set our course by the star of age-old values, not short-term expediencies; to waste less in the present and provide more for the future; to leave a legacy that keeps faith with those who left the Earth to us. ❋ ITY National Archives (1993)

The realization of this national potential will increasingly depend in this period of rapid change on our ability to resist the pressures of short-term expediencies in favour of long-term answers. ❋ Unknown (1973)

His apology is an elaborate defense that doesn't convey his eagerness, in a pinch, to mouth political expediencies, she says. ❋ Menachem Wecker (2011)

Warn against perversions and promiscuity – teach reproductive biology and the expediencies of waiting for marriage to be intimate. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Today's NASA, in contrast, is focused on re-engineering big, expensive expendable rockets provided by hand-picked favorite contractors to launch throw-away spacecraft (also provided by hand-picked favorite contractors) whose designs are shackled to ancient architectural mentalities driven almost entirely by lunar access expediencies instead of long-term operational sustainability considerations. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The difference is the addition of new federal powers and bureaucracies to expensively administer the transfer according to political expediencies. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The legislation is a grab bag of compromises and expediencies. ❋ Robert Teitelman (2010)

Warn against perversions and promiscuity–teach reproductive biology and the expediencies of waiting for marriage to be intimate. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Presidents make their political choices for the Court, and the partisanship in the Senate lines up accordingly -- either to mount rhetorical volleys, or to harden into party-line votes, depending on the political expediencies of the day. ❋ Unknown (2010)

While I doubt very much there are many firearms officers that would do that, they are still human and victims of the same temptations and expediencies as everyone else. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2008)

Attempts to construct a cross-party European anti-extremism pact are falling victim to the expediencies of national politics. ❋ Ian Traynor (2010)