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
Toynbee never seems to regard coexistence as anything but a temporary expedient to gain time for the pursuit of a long-range solution.
From Time Magazine Archive
A temporary expedient of this nature seldom answers; and the present was no exception to the rule.
From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Herbert Joyce
