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Sentence Examples And no, a filmmaker doesn't need to resort to cheap tricks and melodrama to tell the story. Harassed by famine and excessive taxes, people will resort to eating leaves, roots, flesh, wild honey, fruits, flowers and seeds. Too many hoodwinkers resort to sweet-talking and give would-be-wives shady marriage promises. Not uncoincidentally, this period has coincided with continuous resort to IMF bailouts by virtually every single major economy in the region. Yet the poor still resort to the public services for more of their secondary and tertiary level care than do the better off. They are scraping the barrel when they resort to the mindless attack made in the newspapers. Celtic pride is a touching thing to see, but hopefully the band won't have to resort to such theatrics for long. They resort to petty thievery to make a few extra bucks and, by chance, end up videotaping a mob hit that lands them in water over their heads. They had to resort to direct barter with peasants, exchanging their products or even parts of their machines for food. During criminal investigation police frequently resort to torture to extract information from suspects while they are in their custody. It is also a saga about the savagery that can result when the British and the Irish resort to their base instincts. There are millions who never resort to violence or abuse others, who never are dishonest, selfish or greedy in their business dealings. When danger threatened there was resort to prayer, but work soon followed as the passengers bore a hand with the crew. Gerald does, in fact, resort to violence, beating the horse and cutting it with spurs. It is indeed a sorry state of affairs when Irish politicians resort to shooting the messenger when election results are not to their liking. Modern wars require a pretext, a casus belli that can be packaged to the public as a sufficient justification for the resort to arms. They will resort to toupees and tucks, soft-focus lighting and soft-fleshed leading ladies of an entirely inappropriate age. Children need discipline and clear boundaries but when parents resort to physical punishment they give out the wrong message that might is right. She also revealed that a couple of big time opera houses in New York do resort to using body mikes or floor mikes. Some of the smaller shippers and stockholders refuse to resort to the estufa to age their wines. Show More Sentences I had a hard time sleeping last night, and even had to resort to counting sheep. They claim they can help companies place higher in your rankings, but sometimes they resort to treachery. Besides undervaluing their goods, technical smugglers resort to misdeclaration and misclassification of the products they bring in. Ross doesn't resort to the dumbing-down tactics favored by Hollywood in biopics. Ejecting from an aircraft is rare, but pilots sometimes have to resort to pulling the ejection handle to save their lives. May I never laugh at their mistakes, or resort to ridicule when they displease me. You're incapable of dealing with the emotion yourself, so you have to resort to something to blot it out. This has been compounded by an unavailing resort to extreme force in the most heated zones of engagement. This plot device enables us to hear Nicholson's inner feelings without resort to awkward monologues. I don't know how I'd react if I encountered something as monstrous as a Golem, but I doubt that I'd resort to verbal pyrotechnics. With no access to legal, safe abortion, they resort to the army of backstreet abortionists. So why did Roberts, now 24, resort to such a drastic measure to spare her blushes permanently? The art of the classic political sledge has been lost as MPs resort to crude invective over clever insults. In a sense the sledging, the fact that they needed to resort to it, made us realise that we were a good team. As an actor, he often confessed the need to resort to disguises and mystifications in order to play some characters. It will uninhibitedly resort to violence and other means, mostly illicit, not to let go of its hold on power. The resort to ridicule and name-calling betrays an angry wish that this problem would simply go away. Even so, some fear that the situation might degenerate into a quagmire in which the rebels resort to protracted guerrilla warfare. Under such circumstances, it is natural for the public to resort to other means to get justice. The AL, the main opposition party, has decided to resort to street agitation to unseat the government. Show More Sentences And whatever you do, don't resort to any whining, snivelling, or whimpering tactics. Now officials have warned that if negotiations reach stalemate today they will resort to legal action. Indian netizens faced with the ban would have to resort to cunning methods to circumvent the block. But that's true of billiard balls and we don't resort to quantum physics to explain the Newtonian behaviour or lots of other stuff. We know that vanguardist groups resort to underhand tactics as a matter of principle, but this is a particularly scandalous example. The western powers have proved yet again their willingness to resort to intimidation and old-style gunboat diplomacy to achieve their ends. If one burgess had a complaint against another, he was expected to bring it before the town court, not to resort to any external legal authority. But theologians are rather poorly represented, so I will have to resort to antique methods, viz., visiting a library. Advance bookings exceeded all expectations and well over 1,000 anglers journeyed to the resort to compete. Certain families resort to magico-religious remedies based on the belief that the voices are due to spirits and black magic. The snow has provided a light cover from the resort to Mt Blowhard on the western side of the mountain. I figured I'd hit a sticking point eventually and if necessary, resort to some ugly table hack to finish the job. It is quick and simple and allows us to make arrests without having to resort to weapons or excessive physical force. His simple stagecraft makes you shiver with sheer pleasure at what theatre can do without resort to special effects. In general the text is slowed by frequent resort to lists of statistics that would be conveyed more effectively in a simple graph or diagram. Fear makes people jumpy and apprehensive, and more apt to resort to violence. Sometimes they resort to using hard-backed dining chairs, which is not comfortable. He must inspire, exhort, sermonize, edify, or warn, resort to pulpitry in general. He suffered from an affection of the bladder, and was at length compelled to resort to a surgical operation for relief. Maybe, once upon a time, without language skills or the ability to negotiate and rationalise and reason, we had to resort to violence. Show More Sentences Pretty easy to see why this guy has to resort to the casting couch to have any chance of getting a woman. When interventionists resort to that kind of argument, they are grasping at straws. Deportation detainees frequently resort to desperate acts to protest their imprisonment. A person, a society and a country which is weak and helpless has no choice but to resort to violence. They have threatened to resort to agitation if any government official tried to get the shops closed forcibly or a fine is imposed upon them. Seeing things like this just gets me wanting to play chess, lose, and resort to checkers. In such cases, resort to binding adjudication will require the agreement of all parties to the dispute. Maybe one day I'd move to a place where I could hunt my own food in the wild, not have to resort to caged rabbits in a basement. Tucker found that when confronted with patent trolls, start-ups often had to resort to layoffs or abandon projects. As a result, many of them have had to resort to shooting kangaroos in order to sell the meat, as they are almost penniless. Thus, to make any progress one has to resort to more coarse-grained models. Each of these men could resort to the civil courts to enforce rights cognisable in those courts. When they are unemployed, or working for a tiny salary, some resort to producing fakes for organised crime gangs. The more they appear as fakes and liars, the more they will resort to naked political power in pursuit of their goals. The plan hadn't gone well at all and the four had been forced to resort to their fallback plan. In the case of the Maamba strike, there was no reason for the colliers to resort to such action. It is necessary to resort to inarching when the roots as well as the trunk have been girdled. But we cannot just resort to blaming the present incumbents for our circumstances. Sad yet again, if so, that journalists have to resort to indirection to shame their seemingly unshamable peers. It's really quite a simple concept and I don't understand why we have to resort to the communistic approach of sharing the wealth. Show More Sentences Unfortunately, the Zulus did not resort to guerrilla warfare as previous opponents had done, but fielded an enormous army. Without the ability to resort to formal regulatory and legal instruments, the Japanese bureaucracy could guide but could not lead. Whenever you are in trouble, you automatically resort to lies until you are found out. We feel that none of us needs a gift for the sake of having a gift and also often resort to consumable items like a good bottle of wine. However, he can become cross or frustrated on occasion and he will sometimes resort to hitting himself or talking to himself. Up-rooted and frustrated, the exiled resort to their worst traditions, vendetta and fratricidal war. While some employers resort to crude tactics, others are more subtle in their tactics aimed at discouraging union activity. The truth is, though, sometimes spies really do resort to cunning disguises and hidden cameras. I'm guessing they don't have any projectile weapons or anything similar since they resort to using claws in most cases. Languages that lack definiteness markers like the Slavonic ones are expected to resort to demonstratives more freely. But you shouldn't need to resort to the threat of media publicity to get decent service, should you? I was disappointed that he had to resort to derogatory and intolerant remarks to try to be funny. Not that resort to violence and kidnap hadn't already undermined their credibility. In the attempt to end up as winners, footballers will resort to a number of unsportsmanlike practices during matches. It is at this point that even those governments who have shunned it in peacetime resort to the third method of recruitment, conscription. He might have a word in Bertie's ear and encourage him to resort to some land travel instead of spending millions on jets. Their manifesto included an announcement that they would resort to causing false fire alarms in an effort to bring the dognappers to their knees. Britain has taken onboard this ruling but has had to resort to simply storing old refrigerators while facilities are built to dispose of them. After a vengeful officer wrongfully sends his mother to prison, Ned and his brothers resort to a life of crime. Those who were less keen to compete for migrants could resort to convicts as casual labour. Show More Sentences Nevertheless, whatever the terminology employed, the fact remains that gaps or lacunae have been filled by resort to those principles. Having to resort to a cruel and unusual punishment adds a moral relativity that is profoundly provocative. Occupying powers always resort to such methods to subdue resistance to their rule. Enjoy this island and remember to venture out of your resort to do some exploring and make the most of your time on this very exotic island. Nothing the bailiff did, in attempting lawfully to levy distress, could have begun to justify a resort to violence by another person present. Farmers also only use synthetic pesticides as a last resort to save the crop, relying instead on natural repellents and controls such as neem. It is precisely to temper the passions of the people that we resort to representative rather than direct democracy. If preferred prey species are not present at these depths, lake trout may then resort to feeding on zooplankton and invertebrates. They reduce the frequency and intensity with which the authorities must intervene as lenders of last resort to avert systemic crises. It is a place that has allowed reason to be at the heart of all these things, that has allowed genuine dissent without resort to violence. Landowners, however, stressed the importance of powers of last resort to enable the police to arrest individuals who acted irresponsibly. Yet this Utopia seems increasingly difficult to attain without resort to war. What could possibly justify our resort to the very means we properly abhor and condemn? The difficulty that emerges is that there is resort to statements of the superficial in seeking to describe what are deep and complex issues. The money raised would become a sort of piggy bank of last resort to pay doctors and hospitals for patients who don't pay them. They are a technically reliable threat of last resort to discourage a foe from pressing too hard or threatening national survival. It is sad that such eminent judges who found themselves in some embarrassing situation had to resort to such tactics. Despite their differences, there is no reason the two sides should have to resort to force to resolve the matter. The intent, of course, is to accomplish the mission without having to resort to lethal force. As such, schools don't need to resort to mass quantitative testing, she said. Show More Sentences The assumption seemed to be that any group of people willing to resort to such extreme measures must have a just and compelling cause. In such a situation, it is not surprising that people will resort to desperate measures. The depression forced most firms to resort to repeated rounds of employee layoffs, wage cuts, and work speedups. There were fewer staff, poorer conditions, and a greater resort to restraints such as strait-jackets to control unruly patients. We do not endorse those who must resort to lewd suggestiveness in an attempt to create humor. A line could and should easily be drawn, however, when these companies resort to nonsensical double entendres involving lewdness and obscenity. So the reader must resort to the apparatus and notes to figure out what interpretation is driving a given modernization choice. I sometimes had to resort to printing out stories from the online edition of my local paper to appease her. The writing itself does not resort to much critical reflexion or afterthought. The truly great debaters and wordsmiths never resort to cheap discourtesy as a way to make a point and their arguments were stronger for it. Make war as vile and horrid as you can, he reasoned, and people will feel all the less inclined to resort to it. Surely the administration would not resort to blackmailing us into allowing the use of the airport to further their own ends? The IMF said last week that the government may need to resort to spending cuts if it runs out of funding sources. Of course, being a discerning and witty individual, you aren't going to resort to such a low blow. States and groups that cannot confront a superpower in traditional ways resort to terrorism as a form of asymmetrical warfare. It is an old tactic and the only one to resort to when you are caught the way they have been. The president's resort to autocratic methods is above all directed against the working class. The company brilliantly captures the feel of the master's writing without having to resort to big dresses and gleaming samovars. An estimated 4,000 dogs, covered with mange and ticks, roam the land and are sometimes so hungry they resort to cannibalizing other dogs. Women in Ireland don't have to resort to backstreet abortions because they can get on a plane and fly to England. Show More Sentences The bad news is that the prospects are dim for achieving this end without the resort to force over the coming years. It had to resort to palliative measures such as social assistance, and a restructuring plan for the Belgian industry, which was hardest hit by the crisis. Ehrenreich repeated the experiment in Portland, Maine, where she worked seven days a week as a housecleaner and nursing-home assistant, but still had to resort to a food bank. He concluded that swiddens generally produced enough food for consumption and future planting, and only occasionally was there a need to resort to semi-domesticate crops. Many Uruguayans resort to such jobs as street vending and tailoring. It is common these days to see workers resort to strike action at the slightest hint of disagreement during collective bargaining or resolution of any industrial matter. The opening 10 minutes saw Redhill take the game to their hosts, who were forced to resort to clearing their lines by kicking the ball out of play. They resort to doing shocking things to cover up this boringness. Once again, without any democratic discussion, the government is proceeding against the express wishes of the British people by resort to lies and evasions. However, norms governing the conduct of war, as distinct from those governing resort to armed force, are by their nature no more than mitigatory in effect. This is consistent with parental practice which, as noted earlier, is marked by rapidly declining resort to physical punishment of children older than four. It is therefore forbidden to resort to any idolatrous faith healer or shrine, even when one is dangerously ill and a psychological cure may be effected. Politically he was different both from the moderates, who believed in constitutional methods, and from extremists or terrorists, who were willing to resort to violence. So filmmakers usually resort to a plot device to compensate for this absence. Is this not astonishing enough for Kaku that he has to resort to star trek references and discussions of the Matrix? In many cases, owners and grooms resort to modifying the clip, twitching the horse, or even having the vet out every few weeks to inject sedatives. I suggest the police, car producers and the public establish cooperation to raise awareness on the importance of using seat belts, and not just resort to imposing penalties. What alarms the consumer is that the proposed restrictions will put their health in jeopardy and give them no choice whatsoever except resort to drugs. It is the compulsion to resort to hyperbole that tells me how superficial the middle class bleaters' understanding of, and commitment to, reconciliation is. I can adjust font, text justification, add bulleted or numbered lists, indent, use blockquotes and insert links and images without ever needing to resort to code. Show More Sentences Thus the adoption of true free trade involves the abolition of all indirect taxation of whatever kind, and the resort to direct taxation for all public revenues. When the goods delivered to the loading dock aren't what customers are shopping for, stores must resort to the desperate measure of price markdowns. The resort to communalism is a desperate attempt by the ruling elite to divert the mounting anger and frustration and to set working people against each other. But it turned out to be unnecessary to resort to extreme methods. The office is full of touts and bureaucrats who are out to make the process as lengthy and complicated as they can, in order to induce you to resort to a bribe. Despite his sense of legality, he could resort to dramatic displays of armed might and air power to quell internal opposition with literal overkill. Vowing to get the little pisher back, they resort to exploiting Cartman's recent rendezvous with a spacecraft to contact the creatures and save Kyle's sibling. I mean we had to resort to actually simulcasting our ads on GB and CH to offer the same audience at the same price as one ad in one shift, the unbeatable foe. He seeks redemption by facilitating the advancement of those tempted to resort to guns. A democratic culture permits the rejection of extremist ideas and actions, without having to resort to other extremes to suppress such ideas and actions. History often provides an opportunity for political outfits to flex their muscles and resort to a show of pomp to impress a wavering rank and file. Doctors are concerned that teenage girls resort to crash diets in an attempt to shed the extra fat that they need to bear children in future life. In the case of farmers' fields, herbicide-resistant weeds could force the farmer to resort to more extreme chemical use to eradicate the invaders. And now one resident in the estate has had to resort to cutting the two-foot high grass with a scythe just to let his son and the other youngsters in the estate play. But they confess to being unable to explicate the concept, and they ultimately resort to treating it as an unanalyzable base on which to erect a theory of physical lawfulness. On rainy days, you can resort to the detachable battery pack. The shopkeepers would resort to fasts, protest demonstrations and gheraos. They tend to resort to non-argument methods like non-validated dismissiveness, arrogance, viciousness, dogpiling, lies, contempt, mockery, vulgarity. If the builder got ahead of his cash allotments, he might resort to swapping labor, accepting promissory notes, or bartering favors to keep his crew working. The fact that the public have to resort to demonstrations or angry protests against administration policy show that there is something currently wrong with the relationship. Show More Sentences The resort to legalism has contributed to the present crisis. I'm coming up a bit short this month and the credit card company says that they will have to resort to the thumbscrew and hot irons strategy if I don't cough up. They resort to dubious methods of shaping public opinion by planting unsourced stories in the media, which are not only unverified, but also unverifiable. Accordingly, you resort to false premises, lies and diversionary tactics. Why resort to snideness over the basic laying down of facts? But Jenkins doesn't resort to sentimentalising her to generate sympathy. By relying on camouflage, the military resort to the same artifice that enables many prey animals to enhance their chances of survival by minimizing detectability. Schools may have to resort to a four-day week or shorter working days under a new deal to cut extra teacher workloads caused by the profession's recruitment crisis. And inspiration deserts us to the extent that we resort to the lazy journalist's technique of the dreaded self-referencing paragraph apropos of nothing. My policy is to ignore readers who feel it necessary to resort to insults. Another report detailed the pressures on the rural poor to work under slave labour conditions in the country's garment factories or to resort to prostitution. The essential issue has been the preservation of the ability to resort to armed terror, while limiting their opponents' capacity to respond in kind. He laughs and says he does not expect his slaves to be honest, as the system of slavery forces them to resort to cheating and dishonesty just to get by. Finally, he said, as professors try to maximize the likelihood of student success, they may resort to using positive reinforcement for successful behavior. When people argue, they often resort to vituperation and insults. Ambulance and police stations were forced to resort to mobile phones as their landlines and radio transmissions failed in the aftermath of the cable fire. Unlike other stargazers, my friend does not resort to performing calculations with birthdays and positions of planets or shuffling and reading tarot cards. I will not attempt to hide my utter contempt for such casuistry, nor my shame that I work in and organisation where colleagues would resort to it to justify torture. Military and police have complained they are underfunded and had to resort to cannibalizing parts from other aircraft to keep their aging fleets in the air. Some even resort to the dress designer for the young ladies. Show More Sentences By the same token, organizations resort to sorcery to explain mischance. The police had to resort to a mild lathi charge to disperse the mob. Today is so uninteresting I'm having to resort to repetition. Each community can assert its own convictions forcefully, but neither community should resort to anathemas or silences, to exclusion or withdrawal. There are always several zayats in the neighborhood of a kyoung, to which the devotees of Boodh resort to listen to their priests. Breast milk is in high demand for biological experiments and a lot of facilities may resort to freezing to create biocollection. The prison was so crowded that they had to resort to double celling and then triple celling. We now had no alternative but to resort to civil disobedience, and we embarked in earnest on preparations for mass action. Real cat fights are rare in established clowders. So instead of risking serious injury, cats resort to menace and threats. To finance warfare on Edward III's scale, however, the king had to resort to taxation of his subjects. A significant number of the aircraft not shot down after the resort to night bombing were wrecked during landings or crashed in bad weather. They were forced to resort to guerrilla warfare tactics and failed to win any major military victories. Deprived of men, the Prussians had to resort to this new sort of warfare, raiding, to delay the advance of their enemies. Although she had many young men still to draft, she could not conscript them and did not dare to resort to the impressment Frederick had done. Free trade can open new markets to domestic producers who would otherwise resort to exporting illicit drugs. The steady approach of cholera in 1831 was the last occasion in England of a thoroughgoing resort to quarantine restrictions. Of course it is very difficult to pinpoint why someone would resort to such obscene violence. I think most truckers realize this MAY be 4 wheelers thinking and not resort to one finger salute. To sell liquor to the Indians was against the law but the forts had to resort to it or be outtraded by the peddlers. In the 19th Century a pleasure pier was built in an effort to establish a seaside resort to rival nearby Ramsgate. Show More Sentences Nations sometimes resort to international arbitration when faced with a specific question or point of contention in need of resolution. Women seeking to terminate their pregnancies sometimes resort to unsafe methods, particularly when access to legal abortion is restricted. Women without the means to travel can resort to providers of illegal abortions or attempt to perform an abortion by themselves. The only possible reason for resort to a court of equity in a case like this is that the remedy which the law gives is inadequate. Even Maxwell the trader, who has been most among them, is compelled to resort to the curious sign language common to most of the prairie tribes. We know a lot of people around us who would resort to whataboutery or hypocrisy when it is upon them to take a stand. They scavenge if necessary, and are known to resort to cannibalism in captivity. That, he said, placed an overwhelming burden on call centers, forcing state workers to resort to use manual workarounds. Since those vehicles did not cover the full territory of the former rail system, Angelenos had to resort to using personal autos. Police had to resort to lathicharge to control the crowds which turned violent and continued pelting stones. Meanwhile, anyone interested in purchasing a legal taxi license plate, according to Houmani, must resort to the black market. Herewith, how Humphrey bogarted the 20th century, in myths, movies and, when we absolutely have to resort to them, facts. Located 142km from Wadi Adai Roundabout on the Quriyat-Sur Highway, Wadi Shab Resort is more than a resort to Rashid. He painstakingly analyzes the radicality of moral conflict, which cannot be masked by resort to facile monisms. According to Arnold, Clark had to resort to a large amount of hand calculations when computing mass properties to determine centers of gravity. That left nuclear weapons as the only resort to stop a Soviet invasion. Attempts to mythicize the god of loons may spark the anger of a cocky trickster who can resort to fowl play. And the shot shows she is happy to resort to a plug-in convector heater should one get chilly in Scotland. Such a proposition must resort to some degree of overgeneralization on both sides. Patients like Samantha understand surgeons may have to resort to general anesthetic at any time during an operation. Show More Sentences Now is it open season on paperboys yet, or do I have to resort to bribery like with the last one? Nor, unlike his enemies and discreditors, will he flatter or resort to political intrigue to achieve his ends. Police had to resort to shooting in the air to dispel the unruly crowd at the polling booth of Ramireddy Palem. Khursheed Shah said there is complete freedom in country to express opinion but to resort to holism and damaging of property is condemnable. The fuzz camps out for days, and resort to complicated but legal honeytraps to get their crims. It would be a reflexive resort to ideological self-satisfaction. I weed and occasionally resort to roundup, and don't feel too hard-used. And after the old soldiers had to resort to using a field tent for the cooking, Clarissa criticised their efforts in her newspaper column. It has no need to resort to innuendo, pepper itself with four-letter words or be outrageous. As such, we have no option but to pursue these measures of last resort to protect our staff and operations from protesters' criminal actions and intimidatory behaviour. When things look inalterably bleak resort to carefree wishing. The Committee stressed the need to haste the approval of the salary scale to avoid any escalatory moves which they might resort to in case of procrastination. It seems the opposition, which allegedly directs the street thugs, is determined to resort to violence to get the government to genuflect and give in to its demands. Though we're loathe to leave, we take a day trip from the resort to Soller town on the charming Ferrocarril de Soller, an electric tram made of carved olivewood. Here were dishes freshly prepared with skill and care and without resort to the monstrous monosodium glutamate additives that spoil so much food of this type. Some gardens now resort to shears but this gives a more solid effect, being the style more often found on the continent where it is known as boskage. Police in Maine, Maryland, California, and Florida resort to posing as traffic engineers or drivers of disabled vehicles to spring radar traps on motorists. This led him to resort to the Kendal Black Drop, making matters desperate. When fruit is hard to find, they resort to eating leaves and shoots. The authors argue that adherence to the gold standard forced many countries to resort to tariffs, when instead they should have devalued their currencies. Show More Sentences He had to resort to fighting overseas for a short period of time. While the Parliament attempts to resolve the issue as a mediator they do resort to legal proceedings if it is necessary to resolve the citizens dispute. Consultants benefited from the new system by being paid salaries that provided an acceptable standard of living without the need for them to resort to private practice. Its two most important members, Britain and France, were reluctant to use sanctions and even more reluctant to resort to military action on behalf of the League. The effectiveness of British countermeasures against Knickebein, which was designed to avoid area attacks, forced the Luftwaffe to resort to these methods. To do this, they resort to mass campaigns for inserting implants and IUDs and sterilisation, where about 300 clients are provided services by only four doctors in a day. Examples from Classical Literature The application of ice in the same emergency may likewise represent a universal resort to hydrotherapy. The hypermnesia of the dream and the resort to infantile material have become main supports in our theory. They resort to every stratagem which a vile and savage spirit could inspire. If you had asked a Chicagoan, the honorable chairman would have been compelled to resort to cloture before the orator got through. She understood the Whiteman and knew when to stop war and resort to diplomacy. The earlier phases are crude and animalistic, and involve much resort to physical strife. Neutral ships, in order to escape attack by German submarines had to resort to unusual methods of self-identification. The fact that I had to resort to the teapoy illustrates the unreliability of mechanical transport in the wilds. Sledge-travelling was discontinued, and we had to resort to the telega, simply an open cart without any springs. Still, it may be necessary to resort to the therapeutical diagnosis as in the preceding instance. These difficulties, however, may be overcome by resort to the umpirage provided for by the treaty. In this one ordinary speech seemed to have been insufficient to describe the blotch, and he had to resort to a neologism. Both gratify the innate love for self-medication by a resort to cathartics for the slightest ailment. He refused to resort to the methods you used in bringing Pickett to account. These cases are always trying, but it is very rarely necessary to resort to embryotomy. It was necessary, in the case of Mount Rainier, to resort to long-distance methods of angulation. But it is conceivable that this may be done without a resort to nationalistic socialism. Only with the head of the Pittsburgh batting order did he at times resort to the fadeaway. It may be necessary to resort to fumigation, but this should be done by an expert. When confirmed diseases occur, the only safe course is to resort to the most skilful medical assistance that can be obtained. Show More Sentences To characterise the condition of a Mormon wife, we must resort to the phraseology of the bagnio. We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense. The few ladies who resort to them, sit, as of right, in the front rows of the boxes. When a people really means to do something, it must resort to democracy. It is not necessary to resort to the measure so baldly suggested. Are we to resort to the sword when we get defeated at the ballot box? But there is no need to resort to circumstantial or conjectural evidence. They would quickly resort to means similar to those by which it had been effected, to reinstate themselves in their lost pre-eminence. Henry was compelled to resort to stratagem to effect his escape. It was one of those cases in which one has to resort to the gunflint. Should he give no proof of penitence I must resort to severer measures. Yet as a last resort to maintain the right, war is justifiable. Because of his fear of reprisals he had to resort to a nom de plume and assumed whistleblower status. Those who resort to legalism, he has said, ensure their own condemnation. Find more words! 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