Expediency

Rafsanjani also chairs something called the Expediency

Lionel Beehner: Is Washington Prepared for a Post-Khamenei Iran? 2008

"Expediency" was a word scarcely known to his vocabulary.

Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective 1874

The second is the Expediency Council, a body that arbitrates disputes between parliament and the unelected Guardian Council, which can block legislation.

Iran Election Live-Blogging (Sunday June 21) The Huffington Post News Team 2009

Expediency happens, yes, but his words suggest a lack of principle on both ends: on the cynicism of his votes and in the way he described his cynicism to his conservative audience.

Environmental Leader Addresses Reichert Flap « PubliCola 2010

In March, Mr. Rafsanjani may lose his only remaining position of influence—as head of the regime's Expediency Council, which advises the supreme leader.

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Habibollah Askaroladi, a member of Iran's Expediency Council, has said that no person created by God can be called 'brushwood and thorns.'

Iran Election Live-Blogging (Wednesday June 17) The Huffington Post News Team 2009

Expediency is no excuse to dump snow in water, said Anthony Iarrapino, an attorney with the environmental group the Conservation Law Foundation.

With no room to put snow, Eastern waterways beckon 2011

In his three-volume masterpiece Law, Legislation, and Liberty, 1974 Nobel laureate Friedrich Hayek included a chapter entitled "Principles and Expediency."

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"Expediency has become really important in wartime, so the idea that qualified people, who are volunteering to serve, are being hassled is really disconcerting."

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Expediency must not merely inspire science; it must invade science.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010