Durability and resilience, rather than expediency, should determine the time frame of any expansion.

I am afraid that this also reflects once again a growing tendency towards expediency.

We are fighting for a principle that should not be sacrificed at the altar of expediency.

Durability, resilience and expedience, rather than expediency, should determine the time frame for such an expansion.

To turn back would jeopardize the long term strategic interests of both countries for short term political expediency.

But the American election s implications for immigration run deeper than electoral expediency with lessons for governments around the world.

The expediency of extending the term of their activities shall be considered at the sessions of the Group of Experts.

And, as the US pours more troops and money into Afghanistan, military expediency is once again trumping other policy goals in Central Asia.

While that logic certainly appeals to Europeans today, Hamilton insisted on a stronger reason for pursuing sound finance than merely the pursuit of expediency.

Nevertheless, it was dictated more by political expediency than humanitarian motives and was not accompanied by a change in the laws to decriminalize illegal exit.

This approach was chosen not only because of political expediency indirect coordination was seen as economically superior to the more direct coordination implied by economic governance.

He emphasized that UNDP would support sustainable reform as opposed to measures taken for expediency and would therefore continue to target the social dimensions of adjustment.

Holding free and fair elections may not be the primary issue, but nor are they issues that should be shelved in the interests of stability and expediency.

China s belated bouts of openness about the rural spread of AIDS and the SARS epidemic clearly indicate that the central government regards transparency solely as a matter of expediency.

The process of reform was not driven solely by the need to improve efficiency and expediency, but also by a collective commitment to improving the situation of rights holders.

The concept of United Nations collective security is being undermined by the application of double standards to serve the political interests or expediency of certain permanent members of the Council.

In all of these areas, our aim must be a peaceful, integrated international society in which our sense of the common good increasingly qualifies considerations of national power and immediate expediency.

We underlined our concern that the concept of United Nations collective security was being undermined by the application of double standards to serve the political interests or expediency of certain members.

It noted that measures have been taken to further reduce the backlog of communications in addition, measures have been taken to process with the requisite urgency and expediency particular categories of communications.

Rather than abdicating responsibility, whether due to benign neglect, expediency or funding problems, and allowing large States to act unilaterally, it means holding all States in all regions to the same standards.

Second, more specific provisions on labor, the environment, gender equality, and indigenous rights are needed, as well as anti trust, regulatory, and judicial reform provisions, for reasons both of principle and political expediency.

But for many developing countries, exporting is a simple matter of expediency, whereby in the absence of a domestic capital goods sector, financing imports linked to faster growth faces an unavoidable payments constraint.

For its part, Portugal reiterates its firm commitment to multilateralism, to the United Nations and to an international order in which the collective interest is not systematically sacrificed to expediency and self centred interests.

Latvia wishes to bring to the attention of the General Assembly an ad hoc decision which was made for reasons of financial and political expediency, but which will in fact contribute to the financial crisis.

I just do not see how you can possibly divide the two unless you admit that what you decide is not on the principles of justice and what is right but is governed by political expediency.

The Committee should not be led by the so called quot positive changes quot in South Africa to sacrifice the interests of the victims of apartheid on the altar of political and economic convenience and international expediency.

I was very relieved when I heard that Rafsanjani was disqualified... Is it funny that they disqualified the chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council of Iran. They are really stupid and this stupidity makes us happy and hopeful.

O'FLAHERTY welcomed any attempts to strengthen the treaty body system but stressed that reforms should not be based on expediency or the need to increase efficiency alone, but rather be geared to real improvement of the functioning of the system.

The said letter is a concrete testimony to the abuse of a de facto title unjustly accorded to the Greek Cypriot side by the international community, either for political expediency or convenience, against its neighbours and former partners, the Turkish Cypriots.

Some wish to limit the applicability of these principles as a matter of expediency, thereby relegating many of our nations, including the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to third class status within the family of nations under the United Nations Charter.

And we have been reminded, again and again, that to ignore basic principles of democracy, of human rights, of the rule of law for the sake of expediency undermines confidence in our collective institutions in building a world that is freer, fairer and safer for all.

On this important day when we remember the political prisoners in South Africa, dead and alive, it is important to be vigilant and to be careful that the courage of these political fighters for freedom in Azania is not sacrificed on the altar of political convenience and international expediency.

The US and the international community focused far too little on building a suitable structure of governance after the 2001 intervention. In the name of short term expediency, too little was done to sack corrupt governors and police, or to counter involvement by high level officials in the narcotics trade.

If anything, the international community must draw the appropriate conclusions from the life and times of the Special Committee against Apartheid that, regardless of national interests, we, as an Organization, cannot afford to sacrifice principles on which the foundations of civilized society are anchored for the comfort of political expediency.

(e) In taking a decision on the start up of an operation, in particular a large scale operation, the Security Council should consider not only political expediency, the cost of the United Nations action and the degree of potential hazards of personnel but also the problem of quot withdrawing quot from the operation.

The General Assembly should endeavour to eschew political expediency and uphold its own principles and practices to assure the international community that, in its efforts to construct a new order to replace the confrontational order, the relative jurisdictions of the various organs of the Organization and the underlying principles of the Charter will be respected.

It is also more evidence of why the choice for all of us here was not purely the issue of lifting the arms embargo it was a choice between the marginalization and even abandonment of international law and the United Nations Charter in favour of expediency, versus demanding options to soundly support our common principles.

However, the measures recommended by the Secretariat clearly seem to opt for a solution of expediency, namely, the elimination of a certain number of reports in favour of oral reports, the limitation of the contents of the reports to a simple statement of the results of votes and the submission of draft decisions and resolutions, and so on.

In order to meet the essential needs in the area of transportation and logistical operations and to procure high value and often technically complex services effectively, the Chief of the Logistics and Transportation Section is required to play a strategic role in the efficiency and expediency of services and pursue the continuous improvement of procurement procedures with a scope of responsibility that also includes policy development regarding procurement processes.