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• Most people, faced with a decision, will choose the most expedient option.
• It is expedient for you that I go away.
• Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a greater good to a less.
• But the Expedient, in the sense in which it is opposed to the Right, generally means that which is expedient for the particular interest of the agent himself; as when a minister sacrifices the interests of his country to keep himself in place.
• His marches are expedient to this town.
• He would never let her know that he was aware of the strange expedient to which she had been driven by her great distress.
• Depressingly, [...] the expedient of importing African slaves was in part meant to protect the native American population from exploitation.