expediences
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From Time • Apr. 29, 2013
Falsehood slopes into truth through cunning expediences and white lies.
From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by Jowett, John Henry
Thus it makes the individual the center of his own universe, and dissolves moral principles into a choice of expediences.
From The Acquisitive Society by Tawney, R. H.
Indeed, they are the results of various necessities and expediences.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
This is as old as Pythagoras and as new as Bergson and Croce; it assumes that the concept of justice is man-made, produced and to be altered by expediences and practicalities, always in flux.
From Preaching and Paganism by Fitch, Albert Parker