temporary expedient

Whatever his intentions, that agreement proved little more than a temporary expedient until the war in the north was won.

Pace Powell, the diversity rationale is comparatively “amorphous” and “ageless”; as a consequence, race-conscious admissions have changed from “an urgent but temporary expedient into a permanent fixture of academic life,” Kronman writes.

For starters, US officials and some prominent economists defend the high US tariffs as a regrettable but temporary expedient, and a necessary means to a strategic end.

He resented having “to resort to temporary expedients merely to make a poor show for the opening.”

The tariffs launched on allies are a “temporary expedient” as Trump tackles trade imbalances.