The title of the first chapter is " All of them should have been very happy —," and it introduces the utopia by the expedient of the protagonist's inexplicable dissatisfaction with it.

The philentomas were traditionally placed with the Muscicapidae ( flycatchers ) when these were still used as a " wastebin taxon ", largely as an expedient because these enigmatic birds have long defied ornithologists as regards their systematic placement ; they remain little-studied and their placement here is just as provisional as it was in the Muscicapidae but even if they do not really belong here, they are at least not very distant to the Prionopidae.

The book was very popular, and the same expedient was resorted to in Conversations on War and General Culture, published in 1871.

Egeria as a nymph or minor goddess of the Roman religious system is of unclear origin ; she is consistently, though not in a very clear way, associated with another figure of the Diana type ; their cult is known to have been celebrated at sacred groves, such as the site of Nemi at Aricia, and another one close to Rome, expedient for her presumed regular meetings with King Numa ; both goddesses are also associated with water gifted with wondrous, religious or medical properties ( the source in that grove at Rome was dedicated to the exclusive use of the Vestals ); their cult was associated with other, male figures of even more obscure meaning, such as one named Virbius, or a Manius Egerius, presumably a youthful male, that anyway in later years was identified with figures like Atys or Hippolyte, because of the Diana reference ( see Frazer ).

William James's version of pragmatic theory, while complex, is often summarized by his statement that " the ' true ' is only the expedient in our way of thinking, just as the ' right ' is only the expedient in our way of behaving.

It is true that it was the suggestion of Noy that a further resort should be had to this expedient for raising money when, in 1634, Charles made a secret treaty with Philip IV of Spain to assist him against the Dutch ; and Noy set himself to investigate such ancient legal learning as was in existence in support of the demand.

The implication is that even if a technique, view, etc., is not ultimately " true " in the highest sense, it may still be an expedient practice to perform or view to hold ; i. e., it may bring the practitioner closer to true realization anyway.

William James's version of the pragmatic theory is often summarized by his statement that " the ' true ' is only the expedient in our way of thinking, just as the ' right ' is only the expedient in our way of behaving.

Holmes knows that this is not true, but it is expedient to use the press to convince the culprit that this is what the investigators believe.

Giffen extracted one concession from William: the house servants could be free at any time Gorham thought expedient.

By the simple but costly expedient of never turning the machine off, the engineers reduced ENIAC's tube failures to the more acceptable rate of one tube every two days.

In the New Testament, the Greek word " ethnos " is used for peoples or nations in general, and is typically translated by the word " people ", as in John 11: 50 (" Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not .").

Whereas emigrants have likely chosen to leave one place and become immigrants in a different clime, not usually expecting to return, émigrés see exile as a temporary expedient forced on them by political circumstances.

Bernstorff was one of the first to recognize the impotence of the French monarchy after the Seven Years ' War, and in 1763 he considered it expedient to exchange the French for the Russian alliance, which was cemented by the treaty of the 28 April 1765.

It is commonly related to political violence, and often the terms are interchangeable, or one is used as a pretext for the other when politically expedient.

Male separatism on the other hand ( one might cite gentleman's clubs, labour unions, sports teams, the military and, more arguably, decision-making positions in general ) is seen as quite a normal, even expedient phenomenon.

The only expedient was to marry one of the players, and since Goldfaden and Grodner were both already married, the only expedient was to marry Goldstein ( and to change her first name to the more " glamorous " Sophie ).

In one of his essays he contends that the observance of the Sabbath, though expedient, is not binding upon Christians, since it was a Jewish institution.

Lorne is urged to lose no time in taking such a course, by capitulation or otherwise, as he shall judge ‘ most fit and expedient to save his person, family, and estate .’ He is spoken of as having been ‘ principallie engaged in the enlyvening of the war, and one of the chief movers ;’ and his ‘ deportments in relation to the enemy and the last war are beyond all paralell ’.

After the Mark IX of the First World War, the Kangaroo was one of the first attempts to solve this problem and, though they were expedient conversions, they largely solved the problem.

This interpretation is also quite well justified in many Mahayana scriptures, which indicate that the bodhisattva ( Mahayana practitioner ) " travels from Pure Land to Pure Land, learning from the Buddhas and bodhisattvas ", before creating their own one, as an expedient means to liberate sentient beings.

He said, `` We Democrats must resolve our issues on the test of what is right and just, and not what is expedient at the time ''.

The highest commander and the youngest soldier must always be conscious of the fact that omission and inactivity are worse than resorting to the wrong expedient.

I must now invent some expedient means that will make it possible for the children to escape harm.

A related meaning of value judgment is an expedient evaluation based upon limited information at hand, an evaluation undertaken because a decision must be made on short notice.

The Divine law had been broken ; the interests of the universe demanded that its righteousness should be maintained, therefore its penalty must be endured by the transgressor, or, in lieu of this, such compensation must be rendered as would satisfy the claims of justice, and render it expedient for God to pardon the guilty … Christ made such a sacrifice as rendered it possible for God to be just, and yet to pardon the sinner .” Popular Christianity

On the other, its leadership is deeply imbued with Nazi ideas, and though they try to play down their past affiliations with more blatantly Nazi movements, such as Colin Jordan's National Socialist Movement, they covertly maintain intimate connections with small neo-Nazi cells in Britain and abroad, because all their beliefs and motives make this not only tactically expedient but effective.

This simple expedient would repeatedly save the company many legal hassles in the future, when would-be investigators would take them up on the open offer and make a delivery while taking their family on vacation.

In the Faculty of Economics, new practical subjects were brought together ( veterinary medicine, forestry, and cameral sciences ), which the university was supposed to make " expedient " and " profitable.

Tactical legal considerations usually make it expedient for lessees to default on their leases.

It was also feared that some would make use of this temporary expedient to proclaim the general superiority of the sacred college and of the council to the pope, and to legalize appeals to a future council, which had already commenced under King Philip IV of France.

In the US, there are standards for portability defined by the FCC and the LNPA, as well as NANPA and the ATIS which are agreed upon by all member providers to help make LNP as cost-efficient and expedient as possible while still retaining a healthy level security for all providers and in respect of the highest level of customer service.

( 1 ) Where, in the opinion of the Officer Administering the Government, it is necessary to regulate and control the use of the Flag of Rhodesia in order that it is not used for purposes which, in his opinion, are improper he may make such regulations restricting, regulating or controlling the application to any goods or the importation into Rhodesia of any goods to which there has been applied a reproduction of the Flag of Rhodesia or of a flag which resembles or is intended to resemble the Flag of Rhodesia as he may consider to be necessary or expedient for the purpose.

Hall was not altogether satisfied with the fundamental law of June ; but he considered it expedient to make the best use possible of the existing constitution and to unite the best conservative elements of the nation in its defence.

The British after experiencing the effectiveness of the American 75mm tank guns in the infantry support role opted to adopt the American caliber and ammunition by the expedient of boring-out the 6 pounder tank gun to make the Ordnance QF 75 mm.

In most competitions, including all those that subscribe to the BJCP style guidelines, as well as the International Mead Fest, the term " traditional mead " refers to this variety ( because mead is historically a variable product, these guidelines are a recent expedient, designed to provide a common language for competition judging ; style guidelines per se do not apply to commercial or historical examples of this or any other type of mead.

Some scholars have suggested that the Durand Line was never intended to be a boundary demarcating sovereignty, but rather a line of control beyond which either side agreed not to interfere unless there were an expedient need to do so.

In subsequent years, several smaller independent railways would be added to the CNR as they went bankrupt, or it became politically expedient to do so, however the system was more or less finalized following the addition of the GTR.

They found it expedient to do business with Negroes and so-called carpetbaggers ; but often they returned to the Democratic party as it gained sufficient strength to be a factor in Southern politics.

A gamer that likes to maximize all aspects of the game and do so in an expedient manner is also classified as a powergamer, often seeing more of the world and or game than the " average " player would.

In Australia part IV of the Banking Act 1959 allowed the Commonwealth government to seize private citizens ' gold in return for paper money where the Governor-General " is satisfied that it is expedient so to do, for the protection of the currency or of the public credit of the Commonwealth.

When should is used in this way it usually expresses something which would have been expected, or normatively required, at some time in the past, but which did not in fact happen ( or is not known to have happened ): I should have done that yesterday (" it would have been expedient, or expected of me, to do that yesterday ").

His predecessor vanDeurzen had been exposed to extreme pressure, it even being suggested that he step aside temporarily, transferring his powers to a more willing Minister who would then do what was expedient ; he stepped down altogether.

The essay discusses what is honorable ( Book I ), what is expedient or to one's advantage ( Book II ), and what to do when the honorable and expedient conflict ( Book III ).

In 2005, The Straight Dope presented a summary of many of these arguments against Harding's membership, and noted that, while it might have been politically expedient for him to join the KKK in public, to do it in private would have been of no benefit to him.