It would be dictated by what would be the most expedient way to get her to meet her engagements.

The focus is on the living, not the dead.

We're doing a lot of things because they're expedient.

All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

to assure expedient confirmation.

Shell dictated the whole story.