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
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
Mighty antagonisms reared themselves in their way,—ecclesiastical prejudices, the prejudices of culture, social hostilities, political expediences, and all the subtle and violent contrivances of the world, the flesh and the devil.
From The Whole Armour of God by John Henry Jowett
