| 单词 | temporary expedient |
| 例句 | He resented having “to resort to temporary expedients merely to make a poor show for the opening.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Whatever his intentions, that agreement proved little more than a temporary expedient until the war in the north was won. Remembering America’s first (and longest) forgotten war on tribal islamists 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z For starters, US officials and some prominent economists defend the high US tariffs as a regrettable but temporary expedient, and a necessary means to a strategic end. Trump's trade policy is a hot mess of conflicting goals – with few winners | Jeffrey Frankel 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z The tariffs launched on allies are a “temporary expedient” as Trump tackles trade imbalances. ‘He’s done quite well’: why Conrad Black thinks Trump is what the US needs 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z The ECB authorized the temporary expedient last week when it stopped accepting Greek government bonds in return for funding. ECB Raises Pressure on Greece as Tsipras Meets EU Peers 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z India may consent to a temporary expedient: a “peace clause” that would waive WTO rules for a few years. World trade: The Indian problem 2013-11-21T16:03:54Z Despite its limited nature, the edict will revive memories of Hosni Mubarak's emergency law, also introduced as a temporary expedient, under which military or state security courts tried thousands of political dissidents and Islamist militants. Egypt's Mursi gives troops security role in referendum 2012-12-10T16:11:41Z It was assumed at the time that all these measures were temporary expedients to deal with what was expected to be a short-lived crisis. Will Britain's post-recession economy be resurgent, stagnant or greener? 2012-11-11T15:12:01Z The habit of careful investigation and exactness of thought and statement, will be discarded for random guesses and the temporary expedients of the hour. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z They would, on the contrary, point out the evils, and suggest either that the opening should be refused or accepted only as a temporary expedient. Boy Labour and Apprenticeship 2012-03-30T02:00:18.807Z The Websters, Bentons, and Clays mistook temporary expedients for principles, and really thought that the progress of the world could be stopped by the resolutions of a packed political convention. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z Statesmen are both afraid of it and despise it, and between contempt and fear are reduced to temporary expedients. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z If some compromise is found necessary, it should be looked upon only as a temporary expedient, and not as a permanent policy. Exempting the Churches An Argument for the Abolition of This Unjust and Unconstitutional Practice 2011-12-24T03:08:02.973Z The more immediate sufferers were the workmen themselves; and the mode in which the ruling power relieved them by giving forced employment was wholly unavailing, except as a temporary expedient. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z A temporary expedient of this nature seldom answers; and the present was no exception to the rule. The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 2011-12-19T03:00:45.273Z It might excusably be adopted as a temporary expedient to meet a pressing crisis, but as a permanent system it can only prove detrimental to the country and the currant growers themselves. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z In his youth he had apparently settled the problem once for all; but the solution then found was scarcely more than a temporary expedient. Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z They were a temporary expedient framed to meet a temporary emergency. Supernatural Religion, Vol. III. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:34.690Z But even he only looked upon the experiment as a temporary expedient. The Issue The Case for Sinn Fein 2011-07-26T02:00:19.407Z University extension can never pass beyond the stage of amateurism and temporary expedient until, like its English namesake, it has a permanent staff of instructors exclusively devoted to its service. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Here, too, however, it is only a temporary expedient. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z The inevitable result came presently, and, as a temporary expedient, a small part of your property was used. The Story of an Untold Love 2011-06-17T02:00:17.643Z This, however, was only a temporary expedient, and we have now to consider the radical modifications in designs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z But as he knew that these strong measures could not be more than a temporary expedient, and as arguments were very bootless, he was at a loss to determine what he should do next. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z The average girl is a transient in industry, going into it as a temporary expedient to tide her over until she attains her natural desire, which is to marry, settle down, and raise a family. Anti-Suffrage Essays 2011-03-28T02:00:24.710Z Even at the time, he had invented the story lightly, without much thought of its importance except as a temporary expedient. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z For the moment it seemed to be but a temporary expedient. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z Meanwhile, as a temporary expedient, he suggested a romantic scheme. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z Emigration, as a temporary expedient, was also recommended in certain cases. The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z Thinking the war would be short and decisive, to be followed by large indemnities levied on her enemies, she had expected to finance her expenditure by temporary expedients. Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted 2011-02-01T03:00:14.553Z As a temporary expedient, he permitted the natives to take the fish, but still detained the canoes. Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods 2011-01-12T03:00:35.190Z “The Declaration of Independence was not a mere temporary expedient, but is an enunciation of fundamental truths intended for all time.” The Short Constitution 2011-01-05T03:01:00.017Z But of course that would be a temporary expedient. The Preliminaries And Other Stories At the same time the principle of using hard metal wire instead of flexible hempen thread is essentially vicious, and should only be used as a temporary expedient for publications of little value. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" He was, therefore, in June, made ambassador at Paris as a temporary expedient. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Nor is this dumping a mere temporary expedient to relieve the German manufacturer of an unexpected surplus. American World Policies This is only a temporary expedient, taking you off this way. Mr. Spaceship It is thus necessary to distinguish, in the work of the Convention, the temporary expedients from measures intended to be permanent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" So, as a temporary expedient to keep the dust out, Widow Thrale pasted a piece of paper over the breakage, and the mill was hidden from the human eye. When Ghost Meets Ghost Life, too, came to be viewed as something more than merely a temporary expedient, a thing to be viewed as a necessary evil. History of Human Society The numbers of the School increased sometimes to such an extent that four masters had to be engaged but this was never more than a temporary expedient. A History of Giggleswick School From its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 As a temporary expedient—to keep the bank sufficiently under cover and still allow Boyne the publicity he needs—replace this money pro rata among yourselves. The Million-Dollar Suitcase I am not sure that he did not suggest a false mustache as a temporary expedient. Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War He revealed that the pledges were merely a temporary expedient, made to fill up a gap until more submarines were available. The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources The evils were too deeply seated; they could not be changed by any temporary expedient. History of Human Society A temporary expedient is all that was contemplated, and nothing more lasting was evoked. England and Germany Liston's long splint is only employed as a temporary expedient for immobilising the fragments during transport; a Thomas' splint, if available, is better for this purpose. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. I say that it is legitimate for us to ask for a law which we believe is merely a temporary expedient, not based upon the great principle of human and marriage equality. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I But, of course, as you were without authority, and had so little in your power, it could only be a very temporary expedient. The Perpetual Curate This treatment is of course only a temporary expedient, as it is essential for a surgeon to tie the bleeding vessel itself; therefore a medical man should be summoned with all dispatch. The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) Pacific by temperament and conviction, they resignedly accepted military discipline as a temporary expedient, a purgatorial ordeal, and went about the while with a sense of displacement, the longing of exiles to get back. England and Germany Where the force exercised against the piers was likely to be so great, it was felt that timber ice-breakers, timber or cast-iron piling, or even rubble-work, would have proved but temporary expedients. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson This scheme was intended as a temporary expedient during the distress caused by the American War; and a larger and more permanent scheme which it was to introduce failed to become law. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. It was a principle, he maintained, and no mere temporary expedient, for which Clay and Webster had striven, which both parties had indorsed, which the country had acquiesced in,—the principle of "popular sovereignty." Stephen Arnold Douglas It is important to remember that he had only accepted the Foreign Office under strong pressure, and as a temporary expedient. Lord John Russell To stop small seams, by working in oakum with a knife or chisel—a temporary expedient. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. He saw that the embargo was but a temporary expedient: and he believed that its failure would force the United States into union with England in her war with France. History of the English People, Volume VIII Modern England, 1760-1815 He had simply adopted teaching as a temporary expedient to tide over a financial emergency, and intended to drop it so soon as his object was accomplished. Bert Lloyd's Boyhood A Story from Nova Scotia This shifting of position is but a temporary expedient, it is true, for the enemy's guns will soon obtain the exact range again. A Treatise on the Tactical Use of the Three Arms: Infantry, Artillery, and Cavalry More than half my time I was on the street, engaged in temporary expedients to raise money. Who Are Happiest? and Other Stories Such a measure may, perhaps, answer for a temporary expedient, but it will not do as a fundamental rule to be embodied in the Constitution for the people of this country to live by. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States This also is evidently a merely temporary expedient. A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners The dependence of the clergy on the public treasury was from the first considered a temporary expedient. The History of Tasmania, Volume I The practice is a temporary expedient of value, but probably cannot be pursued indefinitely with profit. Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement Cheap and temporary expedients in agriculture are the characteristics of us Americans, who have abundance of land, a whole continent to cultivate, and comparatively few hands and small capital with which to do the work. Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles As a temporary expedient, the Anson, a ship of war, was appropriated to the project. The History of Tasmania , Volume II It may be, as he affirmed, that his scheme was a merely temporary expedient intended to pave the way to ultimate union. Greece and the Allies 1914-1922 We learned once for all that compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof; that it is a temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American The principle of an independent American force, however, Pershing insisted upon, and he made clear that the amalgamation of our troops with the French and British was merely a temporary expedient. Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times. Perhaps, instead of trying to answer it at present, we might find a temporary expedient for the difficulty until a Committee of the House—if I may say so—shall investigate the whole problem.” The Island Queen The mean pay of the officers, their uncertain tenure of office, and the nature of their duties, would only attract candidates for employment as a temporary expedient. The History of Tasmania , Volume II All these measures are, of course, only temporary expedients as the artery will finally have to be caught and tied by a physician. The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies There is evidence that the quota was devised by the Gillem Board as a temporary expedient to guarantee the substantial participation of Negroes. Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 This scheme might prove, and probably it would prove, to be only a temporary expedient. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 The first was a temporary expedient, intended to restrain action until the question at issue could be submitted to a convention of the States. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government My being with my sister, and a pupil in her school was a temporary expedient until a place could be found for me. Confessions of Boyhood They are, however, not by any means as pleasant as food laxatives, and remedies of this sort should not be employed except as a temporary expedient. Vitality Supreme Jews and goldsmiths made a considerable number of commercial loans but these loans were always regarded by the borrower as temporary expedients; the habitual conduct of business on borrowed capital was unknown. The Age of the Reformation It was a temporary expedient only, but it would serve Rivière's purpose. Swirling Waters For this great measure is no temporary expedient. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Washington, as we have seen, regarded this policy as a temporary expedient, while Jefferson upon two separate occasions was ready to form an alliance with England. From Isolation to Leadership, Revised A Review of American Foreign Policy The Government may be quite ready as a temporary expedient to make scapegoats of the property-owners, but it is not so ready to antagonize trade. King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties As previously stated, fly papers, poisons, and traps are at best only temporary expedients. The House Fly and How to Suppress It U. S. Department of Agriculture Farmers' Bulletin No. 1408 We do not however lay any stress on the appropriateness of this appellation, but adopt it as a temporary expedient, till these words shall be better understood. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. Having no spirit of order, he never looked forward,—content by any temporary expedient to extricate himself from a present difficulty. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) They may not do any harm—properly operated, they probably do not—but, at best, I would regard them as being merely temporary expedients specially devised as first aid to the incurably lazy. One Third Off Was it a fact that the incorporation of the blacks into the body politic of the country was to be the settled policy of the government; or was it an experiment,—a temporary expedient? The Facts of Reconstruction Nor was the substitution of slave labor for white a temporary expedient. History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens This distinction has only tended to perplex learners, while it afforded only a temporary expedient to teachers, by which to dodge the question at issue. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. As the term Pure Land is antithetical to that of the Holy Path, so the word Shin, or True, expresses the contrary of what are termed the "temporary expedients." The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji It is exactly the principle of toleration as a temporary expedient. Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union When the present tariff was first levied it was defended as a temporary expedient only, required as a necessity by war. American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) The consular triumviri, not perhaps quite independent of external influences, were originally adopted as a temporary expedient. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 For nine long years, session after session, we have been lashed round and round this miserable circle of occasional arguments and temporary expedients. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) These doctrines concerning repetitions, however, are all considered but "temporary expedients." The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji They know that, for her, toleration is only a temporary expedient. Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union The rocks on which the South American Government have split have hitherto been bad faith, and consequent temporary expedients. Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil, from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 1 The Catholics enjoying no regular chapel, as a temporary expedient, hired two barns; which, being thrown into one, served for public worship. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals We dropped the subject of personal service at this point, and I expressed the opinion that his service was only a temporary expedient. Twelve Men The radicals are in the majority and the proposals they make are temporary expedients that look only to appeasing the demand of the masses for action against the usurpers of the public rights. The Transgressors Story of a Great Sin His policy, while in office, was one of fine phrases and temporary expedients, some of which necessarily incurred odium, but none of which were pursued by him or his followers with any persistence. The Promise of American Life It was accepted for the sake of peace, as a temporary expedient. John Redmond's Last Years In the pursuit of this object we should resolutely turn away from alluring and temporary expedients, determined to be content with nothing less than a lasting and comprehensive financial plan. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland In the distinction between knowledge as means and love as end, it is easy, indeed, to detect a tendency to degrade the former into a mere temporary expedient, whereby moral ends may be served. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher He said that Mr. Lincoln's reëlection was "practically impossible;" that it was also undesirable, on account of the President's "manifest tendency towards compromises and temporary expedients of policy," and for other reasons. Abraham Lincoln, Volume II Free trade, the object to be aimed at; protection, a temporary expedient. Famous Americans of Recent Times We only know that, to him, it was a conflict constantly impending, and which could be averted for the time only by compromises, concessions, and other temporary expedients. The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style It was never more apparent than it is now, that an increase in a wage rate is a temporary expedient and that wage rewards are not efficient media for securing sustained interest in productive enterprise. Creative Impulse in Industry A Proposition for Educators Here I have but to say that, as a temporary expedient for overcoming at that time the initial difficulties of a colony, it ought not to be hastily condemned. The Long White Cloud On October 12, 1901, the so-called "Civil Hospital" was opened in a large private dwelling, obtained, as we then fondly imagined, merely as a temporary expedient. The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2) It was only after most earnest pleading that he persuaded them not to slay the German's wives as a temporary expedient. The Man from Brodney's Here was a great mind grappling with a great subject,—a mind above temporary expedients for present success, superior to the fear of possible defeat. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 I also considered this as a temporary expedient, and hoped that accident or time might hereafter place me in a less precarious situation. Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are Moreover, the Indians readily discover that the settlement which is proposed to them is merely a temporary expedient. Democracy in America — Volume 1 It will be seen that this is no temporary expedient, such as, alas! nearly every effort hitherto made on behalf of these classes has been. In Darkest England and the Way Out The Catholics enjoying no regular chapel, as a temporary expedient hired two barns; which, being thrown into one, served for public worship. The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 For these reasons a war policy which had generally been considered a temporary expedient became a permanent political issue and a national problem. The United States Since the Civil War But there was something else, a temporary expedient, until the surgeon could be reached—an undue expansion of the pupil—— "Why," shouted Kingozi aloud, sitting up in bed. The Leopard Woman Moreover the Indians readily discover that the settlement which is proposed to them is merely a temporary expedient. American Institutions and Their Influence Charity and all the other ten thousand devices are only temporary expedients, altogether insufficient to meet the necessity. In Darkest England and the Way Out He even resorted, it is said, to the stage as a temporary expedient, and figured in low comedy at a country town in Kent. Oliver Goldsmith A Biography There had been no time to spend in long discussions of the wisdom of the act and no desire to do so; and moreover the act had been looked upon as merely a temporary expedient. The United States Since the Civil War His case needed something more than temporary expedient. The Great God Success The Indians readily discover," says M. de Tocqueville, "that the settlement which is proposed to them is merely a temporary expedient. American Scenes, and Christian Slavery A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest; they support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for the morrow. Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes It is evident that circumstances might arise which would compel the wisest and steadiest Government to adopt public relief works as a temporary expedient for meeting exceptional distress. Problems of Poverty They were, therefore, compelled to resort to temporary expedients for its protection from the elements. Thirty Years a Slave In youth more sleep is needed than in old age, when nature makes few permanent repairs, and is content with temporary expedients. Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics The same difficulty was everywhere, however, and the intelligence of the community soon hit upon temporary expedients. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 All, even honorable gentlemen who are opposed to this description of Union, admit that we must do something, and that that something must not be a mere temporary expedient. Canada and the States Ma Julung was summoned to return in hot haste, and as a temporary expedient the priest Ma Tesing was elected viceroy. China Excise had been established, as we have seen, during the Civil War, as a temporary expedient, destined to be permanent; and any sudden alteration of this would have led to financial confusion. Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 They foresaw, moreover, with the intuition of true wisdom, the danger of resorting to the temporary expedient that had been proposed. Report of Commemorative Services with the Sermons and Addresses at the Seabury Centenary, 1883-1885. The half-way ground and the time for temporary expedients were both left behind in North Carolina on the 12th of April, 1776. School History of North Carolina : from 1584 to the present time But no method of selling liquor can be more than a temporary expedient. Problems of Conduct As temporary expedients, of course; but as treatment, no, No. Keep away from the chemist's shop, my dear Ridgeon, whatever you do. The Doctor's Dilemma It is useless to propose a temporary expedient. State of the Union Address This proposition in regard to credit was no mere temporary expedient, thought of at the time, to meet an unexpected contingency. The Good Time Coming Restraint, Mr Godwin thinks, may be permitted as a temporary expedient, though he reprobates solitary imprisonment, which has certainly been the most successful, and, indeed, almost the only attempt towards the moral amelioration of offenders. An Essay on the Principle of Population There can be no question, on a dispassionate consideration, that the militant methods of the trade unions are an unfortunate and temporary expedient. Problems of Conduct The enemy, likewise, was induced to prosecute the war, from the temporary expedients we adopted for carrying it on. Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): the American Crisis "A temporary expedient to quiet the minds of the Indians," Washington called it, and then himself went out along the Great Kanawha and into Kentucky, surveying land. Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground Just as truly, any later "revelation," repealing the one concerning polygamy, must be either a pretence or a temporary expedient, in orthodox Mormon eyes. The Story of the Mormons, from the date of their origin to the year 1901 The Triple Alliance he regarded merely as a temporary expedient for quieting discontents which had seemed likely to become serious. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 |
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