expediences
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Peace_2_All @ --- Can't speak for all the atheists'... but I'm curious... "expediences" such as?
From Time ● Apr. 29, 2013
Falsehood slopes into truth through cunning expediences and white lies.
From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by John Henry Jowett
The soldiers, accustomed, as all Roman soldiers were, to all the expediences and resources of warfare, had prepared planks which were to be run forward on the ladder, in order to construct a firm bridge.
From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2 by Henry William Herbert
Alas, how, in thy soft-hung Longacre vehicle, of polished leather to the bodily eye, of redtape philosophy, of expediences, clubroom moralities, Parliamentary majorities to the mind's eye, thou beautifully rollest: but knowest thou whitherward?
From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Thomas Carlyle
Indeed, they are the results of various necessities and expediences.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
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