But even with regard to the expediency of such punishments we may have doubts.
Sagasta loyally furnished the queen with a constitutional pretext for carrying out her desire, and tendered the resignation of the whole cabinet, so that Her Majesty might consult, as usual, the party leaders and generals on the grave question of the expediency of entrusting to new ministers or to the Liberals the mission of testing the new electoral system.
From early youth he took a prominent part in the politics of his clan, and owing to his extreme opinions with regard to the expediency of abolishing the Tokugawa administration, he was banished (1858) to the island of Oshima (Satsuma), where he attempted unsuccessfully to commit suicide.
Burke carried into the world of theory those politics of expediency of which Walpole had been the practical originator.
The evidence suggests that decisions on bed numbers in PFI schemes reflect financial expediency rather than clinical judgment.