Meanings of mere expediency in English

Which form of government should be adopted was in his judgment a question of mere expediency.

Mr. Finch declined to submit a question of principle to any considerations dictated by mere expediency.

At the point at which matters had now arrived, I rose superior to all considerations of mere expediency.

And I beg gentlemen, English gentlemen, to observe that in Scotland this is not regarded as a matter of mere expediency.

But to go a little further, and beyond mere expediency: Can you see no difference between buying slaves, and making men slaves?

Custer had shot horses on the Washita in 1868, but that was mere expediency, since his column was in grave danger of annihilation.

Every time something turns out to have been covered up for no good reason - mere expediency -it makes it harder next time.

It does not concern itself with questions of mere expediency, but with questions of right and wrong, and discriminates intuitively between truth and error.

It is not enough to have conceded, it is necessary also to show that the concession has some more solid origin than mere expediency.

Even if we consider his conduct not as a question of principle, but only as one of mere expediency, it must still be condemned.

"Her conversion was mere expediency," Mary sneered.

"I can't help feeling," demurred Gabriella, forsaking the moral issue for the argument of mere expediency, "that honesty is good business."