expediencies

Example Sentences

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And in our contacts with Mexican people we had been faced with a change in expediencies.

From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2020

In le Carré’s novels, people who long ago became spies out of patriotism or some other strain of idealism find themselves hopelessly compromised by the expediencies of the work itself.

From Slate • Sep. 25, 2018

The film examine three discrete chapters in Jobs' life, and some believed that, whatever narrative expediencies it provided, that structure could be a liability.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2015

Mr. Murswiek criticized the central bank for viewing “economic expediencies as the only thing worth caring about.”

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2014

But the student of history must not be deceived into thinking that principles and abstract theories are not operative forces because they appear to be subordinated to the pressure of small local or temporal expediencies.

From Problems of Poverty by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)