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
He regards these horrors as a temporary expedient .
From Time Magazine Archive
The more immediate sufferers were the workmen themselves; and the mode in which the ruling power relieved them by giving forced employment was wholly unavailing, except as a temporary expedient.
From Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Charles Knight
