public expediency

基本解释

The best intentioned home secretary, say penal reform groups, could not help but base his decisions on public opinion and political expediency, whatever the merits of the cases before him.
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And, like our own problems, they were motivated by political expediency rather than concern for the public good.
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It is ingrained in the public imagination that justice always takes second place to political expediency.
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