But, if tax increases are not politically expedient, policymakers should proceed with old fashioned deficit spending. The important thing is to achieve any fiscal stimulus that boosts job creation and puts the unemployed back to work.

An infrastructure program oriented in this way as opposed to a grab bag of politically expedient shovel ready projects should be able to muster conservative support. And, done properly, federally funded infrastructure projects should provide substantial benefits to lower income Americans.

Faced with rising gasoline prices as a result of the ongoing crisis with Iran, Americans concerns about the cost of driving have contributed to Obama s shaky popularity ratings. Thus, the Obama administration may find it more politically expedient to seek a deal with Iran.

The central weakness of democratic systems also contributes to the problem The quest for votes favors the extension of social benefits and discourages unpopular measures that would put the economy on a more sustainable footing. As the German economist Herbert Giersch once put it, what is politically expedient is rarely economically beneficial.

Today, acting against scientific evidence is politically expedient it offers left wing and right wing politicians alike an opportunity to court an anti elite, populist image. But this approach endangers public health and the planet, and some scientists are beginning to worry about the possibility of a new dark age of political feudalism.

Prevented from criticizing the country s leaders and reporting fully and objectively on domestic affairs, China s media often finds it expedient to turn its critical gaze outwards. This is politically safe, since, in one sense, to criticize the outside world, especially countries such as Japan and the US, is to praise China s government.

We share the view that the involvement of Kosovo Serbs in those bodies is perfectly expedient.

Yes, it is politically incorrect.

And politically, it was awful.

But for everyone except Bush and those left unemployed by the lag in demand it is an extraordinary opportunity. The remarkable boosts to productivity that have been within America's grasp will ultimately lead to accelerating growth of real profits and real wages, if only US policy makers resist the temptation to pursue politically expedient, but economically damaging, measures to protect output and employment.

As the economist Dani Rodrik has pointed out, standard analysis generally results in a laundry list of desirable reforms that does not tell governments where to begin. Apprehensive leaders start with the most politically expedient items, while bold leaders start with the most challenging prescriptions but there is no guarantee that either of these approaches will deliver the expected result.

Unilateralism seems very expedient to shortsighted politicians, for it obviates the need for what they perceive as the mess of actual negotiations that is, meeting their counterparts face to face and discovering the human results of their policies. Going it alone also seems politically advantageous domestically, because leaders can decide how much and how far they want to carry out a particular policy.

It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews that it was expedient that one man should perish for the people.

Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews that it was expedient that one man should perish for the people.

Politically, Darfur finds itself at a stalemate.

So she was making a politically rational decision.

His disciples said to him, If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.

His disciples said to him, If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.

Now Caiaphas was he, which gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.

Now Caiaphas was he, which gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.

2.1 The author is from a politically active family.

(g) To release individuals detained for politically motivated reasons

(g) To release individuals detained for politically motivated reasons

Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

That extreme expedient can be considered only when all other efforts have been exhausted and peaceful solutions have proved not to be viable.

You know, the erotic mind is not very politically correct.

An isolated Gaza would not be economically or politically sustainable.

State Security is nominally responsible for politically based security issues.

It is also morally wrong, as well as politically inapt.

I was born into a family of politically active, intellectual atheists.

(j) About the politically motivated prosecution of a leading opposition figure

Eradication of poverty is imperative on all levels economically, politically, ethically.

Where there is a breakdown in measures to protect minority rights, the State should take speedy and expedient measures to prosecute and bring offenders to book.

The problem is that the conservative hardliners continue to use it politically.

Their determination to recover lost ground, both physically and politically, is undiminished.

All future assistance must be unconditional, grant based and not politically motivated.

Militants on both sides remain strong, and they exert much influence politically.

Politically, Africa has made the most advanced effort at continent wide integration.

We still strongly believe that verification is technically feasible and politically desirable.

15. Welcomes the investigations into some cases of politically motivated violence, while remaining concerned at the continued reports of politically motivated violence and intimidation, and urges the Government of Cambodia to undertake further investigations in line with its stated commitments and to take appropriate measures to prevent politically motivated violence and intimidation in the future