7 sentences with 'convenient'
Example sentences and phrases with the word convenient and other words derived from it.
• « Both Bennett and his detractors found it convenient to refer to the story that his origins were rough and violent ... when, in fact, he had spent his youth in the quiet college town of Ann Arbor, Michigan, where his stepfather was an engineering professor. »
• « After the fall of the Western Empire, the new Germanic kings recognised the authority of the emperor in Constantinople. They were formally his vassals (lords in his service) and he remained the emperor of the entire Roman Empire in name. At least until the Byzantine Empire began to decline in the 7th century, this was not just a convenient fiction. »
• « Although there is no "official" beginning of the Renaissance, Petrarch's life, described below, lends itself to using the year 1300 as a convenient date. »
• « The Enlightenment was a philosophical movement that lasted about a hundred years, clearly corresponding to most of the 18th century; convenient dates for this are from the Glorious Revolution in Britain to the beginning of the French Revolution: 1688 - 1789. »
• « Likewise, when the Nazis took power in various parts of Eastern Europe, they often found it convenient simply to work with or appoint local fascist groups already in existence. »
• « Normally, according to the conspiracy theory, those responsible were a combination of Jews and communists (and, of course, Jewish communists). This was a blatant lie, but it was a convenient one for Germany's political right wing to cling to, blaming "Jewish saboteurs" and "Bolshevik agents" for Germany's loss in the First World War. »
• « Iraq's very existence was due to a hare-brained plan by Winston Churchill, foreign secretary to British governments after World War I, to group different oil-producing regions into one convenient state under British rule. »