Meanings of temporary expedients in English

For a time he put off the day of inevitable ruin by temporary expedients.

As temporary expedients, of course; but as treatment, no, No.

The timber-slides I look upon as mere temporary expedients.

They were, therefore, compelled to resort to temporary expedients for its protection from the elements.

They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for the morrow.

More than half my time I was on the street, engaged in temporary expedients to raise money.

The enemy, likewise, was induced to prosecute the war, from the temporary expedients we adopted for carrying it on.

The rocks on which the South American Government have split have hitherto been bad faith, and consequent temporary expedients.

They are temporary expedients.

In youth more sleep is needed than in old age, when nature makes few permanent repairs, and is content with temporary expedients.

All these measures are, of course, only temporary expedients as the artery will finally have to be caught and tied by a physician.

Here was a great mind grappling with a great subject,- amindabove temporary expedients for present success, superior to the fear of possible defeat.

The half-way ground and the time for temporary expedients were both left behind in North Carolina on the 12th of April, 1776.

Temporary expedients for such a purpose can not but be wasteful of money, and therefore unwise.

Temporary expedients, though sometimes capable of appeasing the demands of the moment, can not permanently solve the surplus problem and might seriously aggravate it.