Ministers however insist that the agreement is about security and economic benefits and not political expediency.

总理协议旨在安全防范，促进经济增长，而非出于政治考虑。

Simple expediency or Cixi signaling loud and clear that she was as good as any male.

简单权宜之计或慈禧响亮信号，表明她比任何男人都优秀。

I'm a man of expediency. - I get it.

我是个懂得权宜人 -我懂了。

If you have never seen that sight, then suspend your decision about the propriety of devil-worship, and the expediency of conciliating the devil.

如果你从来没有见到过那种场面，那么，请你对于应不应该崇拜魔鬼，对于安抚魔鬼利害得失问题，还是暂缓作出决定为妙。

That is to say, he was able to see, to examine, to analyze, to evaluate, to measure the climate of the times, the expediency of his calling, of his ministry.

也就是说，他能看见、审视、分析、评估、衡量——风气、以及针对他使命和他职责权宜之计。

Other men saw to the welfare of their dogs from a sense of duty and business expediency; he saw to the welfare of his as if they were his own children, because he could not help it.

其他人是出于责任感和为了工作才关心狗利益；而他却情不自禁地关心着他狗，犹如他们是他亲生子女一般。