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Meanings of expedient (expedients) in English
Spanish
conveniente Serving to promote your interest.
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Usage of expedients in English
1
The fertility of his genius appeared in expedients and in quick contrivances.
2
I will find you expedients; it is my business to obey you.
3
One must not in all cases have recourse to the same expedients.
4
Even these expedients did not much hasten the progress of the expedition.
5
One of the simplest and most effective expedients of defence was delay.
6
I find myself anxious indeed, but fertile in expedients for escaping unscathed.
7
The Conquerer's reign was a time of tentative expedients and simple solutions.
8
All sorts of legal and technical expedients were used to defer action.
9
By such expedients very much might be done for the literary atmosphere.
10
This is the reason why many expedients can not be even attempted.
11
Such expedients as these have never removed the discontents which produced them.
12
These are mere expedients, and expedients are only useful for the moment.
13
To further either of these expedients, the Archduke would do his best.
14
Our foe, though small, was altogether too fertile in expedients for us.
15
But that officer, while an excellent soldier, was not fertile in expedients.
16
But it was said that these expedients were not devised by himself.
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