(1) It's just a temporary expedient.

(2) The story was a temporary expedient.

(3) However, specifically, the AML is not just a temporary expedient in the financial area, or a systematic requirement of marketization in the economic area.

(4) The land sales were merely a temporary expedient for dealing with an immediate need.

(5) The land sale was merely a temporary expedient for dealing with an immediate need.

(6) On the eve of the October revolution, the Provisional Government accepted this as a temporary expedient.

(7) Our efforts in agricultural science are thus, at best, temporary expedients.

(8) Taylor himself never placed undue stock in it, viewing it largely as a temporary expedient.

(9) Mr Ashdown is not content with imposing his version of stability as a temporary expedient, a regrettably necessary short-term tactic.

(10) Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

(11) Pursuing the two-level teacher system in institutions of higher learning is by no means a temporary expedient, but a strategic measure to enhance the quality of talent-training.