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
It was not the enlightened, liberal Minister I had to deal with, but the hard, proud uncle, full of expediencies, and calculating schemes for family advancement, and the exaltation of a lately obscure name.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 by Various
