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- noun Plural form of
expediency .
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Examples
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Henry Kaufman, the esteemed economist who is president of Henry Kaufman Co., warns that Congress is "accommodating short-term expediencies for the health of the economy and the financial markets at the cost of the long-term requirements for protecting the stability of the system."
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Henry Kaufman, the esteemed economist who is president of Henry Kaufman Co., warns that Congress is "accommodating short-term expediencies for the health of the economy and the financial markets at the cost of the long-term requirements for protecting the stability of the system."
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We seek to set our course by the star of age-old values, not short-term expediencies; to waste less in the present and provide more for the future; to leave a legacy that keeps faith with those who left the Earth to us.
Presidents Remarks In Earth Day Speech ITY National Archives 1993
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The realization of this national potential will increasingly depend in this period of rapid change on our ability to resist the pressures of short-term expediencies in favour of long-term answers.
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Warn against perversions and promiscuity – teach reproductive biology and the expediencies of waiting for marriage to be intimate.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause 2010
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His apology is an elaborate defense that doesn't convey his eagerness, in a pinch, to mouth political expediencies, she says.
Menachem Wecker: Kissinger Controversy Recalls Provocative Art Piece Menachem Wecker 2011
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Today's NASA, in contrast, is focused on re-engineering big, expensive expendable rockets provided by hand-picked favorite contractors to launch throw-away spacecraft (also provided by hand-picked favorite contractors) whose designs are shackled to ancient architectural mentalities driven almost entirely by lunar access expediencies instead of long-term operational sustainability considerations.
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His apology is an elaborate defense that doesn't convey his eagerness, in a pinch, to mouth political expediencies, she says.
Menachem Wecker: Kissinger Controversy Recalls Provocative Art Piece Menachem Wecker 2011
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The difference is the addition of new federal powers and bureaucracies to expensively administer the transfer according to political expediencies.
The Volokh Conspiracy » President Obama Claimed that the Individual Mandate is Not a Tax 2010
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The difference is the addition of new federal powers and bureaucracies to expensively administer the transfer according to political expediencies.
The Volokh Conspiracy » President Obama Claimed that the Individual Mandate is Not a Tax 2010
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