temporary expedient

Nor was the substitution of slave labor for white a temporary expedient.

Moreover the Indians readily discover that the settlement which is proposed to them is merely a temporary expedient.

If some compromise is found necessary, it should be looked upon only as a temporary expedient, and not as a permanent policy.

This, however, was only a temporary expedient, and we have now to consider the radical modifications in designs.

As a temporary expedient they sometimes used a bear or buffalo skin, tying the legs together at each end to fashion a rude boat.