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The House arrived at that number because of political expediency — and it has stayed there because of it, too.

The 14 members of the panel have spent the past several months grappling with questions about balancing fairness and expediency.

The only reason, the only thing that changed is the political expediency.

These all-clear fliers are filtered through special lines for expediency.

He appeared to be just a brave and decent impulse away from speaking out where political expediency has too often kept him silent.

But in our polarized era, memory is short and policy consistency often takes a backseat to partisan expediency.

On one hand, it seems oddly principled of Romney, a candidate who has always been guided by expediency when it comes to abortion.

The troops are acutely attuned to signs of political expediency.

Mr. Jackson supposed that Parliament had a right to tax America, but he much doubted the expediency of the present act.

But Nature's voice is far less often heard than that of her adversary, expediency.

Hard is the contest between affection and expediency, when it is raised by the question of circumstances.

Therefore our political questions have been questions of expediency rather than of principle.

The justice of the measure was not less evident than its expediency.