WAY/METHODaction that is quickest or most effective in a particular situation, even if it is morally wrong 不得已而做的事;有效(但不道德的)行动;权宜之计
the ethics of political expediency
政治上权宜之举的伦理问题
Examples from the Corpus
expediency• And this production, played on a red-carpeted traversestage, brings out excellently the mixture of bombast and expediency.• But his actions were perhaps not entirely a matter of cynicalexpediency.• The potential for expediency in planning is vast.• Dooley made popcorn, and Barnabas did his business at the hedge with great expediency.• He would continue to make most of his decisions on the basis of militaryexpediency.• It was for Congress to determine the question of expediency.• And a system whose first and last resort was all too often expediency.• But localised floodpreventionsolutions often have implications for other areas and political expediency should not determine the solution.• The governorvetoed this bill out of political expediency rather than principle.
political expediency• What are needed are more Mario Cuomos, politicians who are prepared to put moral and practicalargumentabovepolitical expediency.• But localised flood prevention solutions often have implications for other areas and political expediency should not determine the solution.• This is often a legacy of historicinception, piecemealdevelopment, and political expediency.• These rates are clearly a trade-off between economiclogic and political expediency.• They are politics of political expediency.• Now, once again, the thinreed of refugeeprotection has fallen prey to the winds of political expediency.• Perhaps it had been a matter of legal or political expediency.