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- n the quality of being suited to the end in view
- He obeyed his own diktat and refused to be deflected by political expediency.
- He cited specific examples from recent dialogues between principle and expediency (for "expediency" many of his listeners read Democrats).
- Can McCain, 69, juggle what he sees as a problem-solving, independent pragmatism rooted in conservative philosophy with what others see as expediency and pandering?.