temporary expedient
Example Sentences
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Most employers viewed this as a temporary expedient.
From Slate • Apr. 7, 2022
Whatever his intentions, that agreement proved little more than a temporary expedient until the war in the north was won.
From Salon • Dec. 24, 2019
The ECB authorized the temporary expedient last week when it stopped accepting Greek government bonds in return for funding.
From Newsweek • Feb. 12, 2015
Toynbee never seems to regard coexistence as anything but a temporary expedient to gain time for the pursuit of a long-range solution.
From Time Magazine Archive
The numbers of the School increased sometimes to such an extent that four masters had to be engaged but this was never more than a temporary expedient.
From A History of Giggleswick School From its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 by Bell, Edward Allen
