Until recently we resorted to artificial sweeteners such as saccharine or aspartame, but never felt good about it. |
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His mother Jacqueline resorted to emotional blackmail to try to make him stop. |
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Makutu was resorted to often for the purpose of avenging some insult, or to punish a thief or other evildoer. |
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I resorted to telemarketing to pay for my bacchanalian lifestyle during the lean years of college. |
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Countries have instead resorted to bilateral trade agreements in a bid to gain tariff reduction up to zero percent. |
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Increasingly isolated politically and weakened economically, Pyongyang has resorted to an international politics of survival. |
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Police resorted to a lathicharge and fired 15 rounds of tear gas shells to disperse the mob. |
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In the end we resorted to telegraphic, monosyllabic emails when we absolutely had to communicate with each other. |
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But the fact is that by the last episode they'd resorted to cheap schmaltz. |
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Some schools have resorted to filling chairs with professors who hold doctorates in other fields. |
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Bloggers have resorted to public shaming, posting photos of manspreading offenders caught in the act of indiscreet sitting. |
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I finally resorted to a last-minute loan from a friend, depositing his credit card cheque into a bank machine. |
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Faced with the shameless hypocrisy of their Big Lie, the advocates resorted to petty little lies. |
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They resorted to one last desperate banzai mission that was put down without much of a struggle. |
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And we in turn have resorted to bellicosity at a level that may or may not be justified. |
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Some users abandoned using favourites altogether and instead resorted to using the history mechanism of their browser. |
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Finding herself without a quick comeback, Angel resorted to juvenile tactics. |
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When the public purse snapped shut, they resorted to ever more mercenary ways of earning a crust. |
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The floor creaked beneath me, and I resorted to tiptoeing very quietly across the floor to the door. |
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It failed, the monarchy resorted to military dictatorship, and the Democratic leaders were driven into exile. |
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With no land to farm and no livestock, many resorted to eating makhet, a small, pea-like wild food that grows on trees. |
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If it is desirable to stop the sweating abruptly, atropine hypodermically may be resorted to. |
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Many countries have resorted to printing money and have experienced hyperinflation under those circumstances. |
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In an attempt to further increase the response rate from manners-challenged guests, hosts and hostesses resorted to pre-stamping the envelopes. |
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The divine Isaac Barrow resorted to this panpharmacon whenever he wished to collect his thoughts. |
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Since his elevation, he has resorted to cheap populism in an effort to win back disaffected working class voters. |
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Jesse Webb did his best to resist the temptation of more ouzo and resorted instead to chewing his fingernails. |
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Police resorted to firing and one of the casualties was killed in police firing. 15 persons have been arrested. |
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Even the ancient standby of the carrier pigeon was resorted to by both sides. |
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Periodic purges of their ranks effected little improvement, so the state increasingly resorted to stipendiaries. |
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Instead, he resorted to artistic licence as regards scale, spatial relationships and the introduction of staffage. |
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Governments have frequently resorted to the use of non-tariff barriers in the belief that trade protection is sometimes in their interests. |
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She bought butcher meat with her pocket money and, when that ran out, she resorted to pinching the family dog's food. |
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As I was friendless and alone this weekend, I resorted to my own entertainment. |
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These participants resorted to embracing some of the postmodern ideas but opted to maintain their religious or spiritual beliefs. |
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Last summer, in order to break this vicious circle, I resorted to spraying some of my paths with Roundup. |
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The Republic faced opposition from the extreme left by Spartacists who resorted to force in efforts to overturn the Republic. |
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Because of the FRA's ineptitude, growers have now resorted to selling their grain for a song as they have become desperate for cash. |
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He threatened to urinate over the police, but instead resorted to dropping his trousers and showing his behind. |
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Once again you resorted to childish name-calling and petty slurs to try to demonise the party. |
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A crowd which had gathered began to burn the bogie, and only dispersed after the RPF had resorted to four rounds of firing. |
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Among the expedients resorted to in exploiting a scientific fraud, mystifying lingo is one of the commonest, and in this he was an adept. |
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In addition, the government resorted to questionable campaign tactics designed to discourage demerger. |
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We resorted to a dingo's breakfast, before continuing on our passage north. |
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He has resorted to that long putter to get his performances back into the groove. |
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Our mother, being quick-tempered, often resorted to caning as a form of discipline. |
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Before she could look away, he had resorted to begging, giving her the puppy-dog pout, whining and crying. |
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If you felt you had some good points to make, you could have dressed them properly and not resorted to cheap journalism. |
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I've resorted to thermal underwear, several layers of jerseys, winter stockings and a polar fleece jacket. |
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She resorted to all her tricks to get at the grapes, but wearied herself in vain, for she could not reach them. |
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I resorted to defrosting a lemon, mixing it into the sliced fruit with some sugar and then wrapping the whole lot in puff pasty. |
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Let us also assume that this aggrieved party has resorted to the law to prove his case. |
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Political maneuvers are not resorted to as they are believed to give rise to more problems. |
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Investigators say that some hijackers have resorted to cloning an entire company by incorporating under a similar name. |
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States have resorted to every available measure to cover their expenses, including tax increases, service cuts, and drawing down reserves. |
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Businesses have complained of unreliability and, in some cases, resorted to insisting customers send routine letters by recorded delivery. |
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This is often a last recourse, only reluctantly resorted to when a party is clearly concealing income. |
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The visiting attack were bankrupt of ideas and resorted to skying balls in form distance. |
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By day three, the girls had resorted to covering their greasy hair with woolly hats. |
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She didn't want them to feel worse than they already did, so she just resorted to weeping quietly. |
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I've not yet resorted to a bobble hat in bed, though if it gets much colder I'll be tempted. |
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Despite all this some players have resorted to this dirty game with a view to make black money. |
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Other gangs have resorted to blackmailing doctors monthly in return for their personal safety. |
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Indeed, what is most troubling is that both sides to the dispute have cynically resorted to the rule of law only when it suited them. |
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But at the eleventh hour, anxious to complete, I resorted to transferring a photograph of a bitterroot bloom to fabric. |
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Inflation made the official currency worthless, so people resorted to barter. |
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In an effort to get at some difficult truths, reporters and writers have at times resorted to unconventional and controversial practices. |
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There were perhaps two points when he resorted to yelling, but he was shouting over a loud ovation in the auditorium. |
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So the engineers had resorted to lamination, building up sections from planed finger-jointed strips 170 mm wide by 27 mm thick. |
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Supplies were so short that the Japanese resorted to cannibalism, eating the flesh of prisoners and their own troops. |
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Police resorted to heavy lathi charge and fired rubber bullets to disperse the clashing groups. |
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Faced with the problem of holding the movement together, the republican leadership resorted to a policy of tactical ambiguity. |
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But here he has resorted to lazy shape-making rather than the rigorous analysis for which he is known. |
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Rumor has it she resorted using the charms to get ahead in both her career and her love life. |
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Many of those fleeing are trying to escape the press gangs to which the militia have resorted to fill the ranks of their army. |
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With no additional news to broadcast they resorted to filtering it into a nightmare story with shock-horror headlines and a paranoid tone. |
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The security personnel then resorted to aerial firing to scare away the rioters, which prompted the Taliban militia to fire back in retaliation. |
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The citizenry have resorted to installing dashcams to record police corruption. |
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Many wine tasters have resorted to using anthropomorphic terms such as aggressive, clumsy, gutsy and precocious. |
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They resorted to keeping a diary of his escapades and videotaping his antics as evidence. |
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Shopowner and self-confessed loony Roly Gillard has resorted to handing out funny money to boost trade. |
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During the 1790s Pitt frequently resorted to seditious libel as a blunt instrument against the reform movement. |
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I resorted to signs and gestures, in a peculiar multi-lingual game of charades. |
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Our harmonica player and singer finally resorted to roadying to make ends meet. |
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Many have been victims of crime but they have not resorted to sleeping with firearms under their pillows. |
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So, miserably, he resorted to the autocue, and even this he turned into a disaster. |
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The only surprise was that it was Gimpel who resorted to this ancient Likud canard. |
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Under these circumstances many devices were resorted to to checkmate their political moves. |
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Factory owners desperate for workers have resorted to taking out full-page want ads in the city's Chinese newspapers, but they say they have gotten minimal results. |
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At worst, Spencer resorted to cruel and violent physical abuse. |
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Those who resorted to theft faced the death penalty if they were caught. |
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We resorted to walking him around the lounge to try to wear him out. |
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Given white Louisianians' frequent use of beatings, whippings, and lynchings, it should not be surprising that African Americans also resorted to aggressive tactics. |
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When the police resorted to kettling tactics during last year's student protests, they didn't offer such facilities to those trapped inside the kettle. |
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Harvey, who had won five of his seven previous fights, took an eight count, and having felt Symonds' power resorted to holding for survival and was warned by the referee. |
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When facing the Apocalypse, Luther abandoned his normal historical-critical approach, and resorted to allegorizing the text in a blast against the papacy and the Muslims. |
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The government has increasingly resorted to repressive measures. |
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But when persuasion failed, the government resorted to force. |
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I eventually resorted to writing down the answers in Japanese. |
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They then resorted to anti-government riots in June and July. |
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Instead he resorted to homophobic Madness, the reflexive athlete comfort zone. |
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Why had teachers at Jamaica High School resorted to overusing 911 for common classroom disruptions? |
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My shoes were hurting my feet so much that I resorted to sticking Sellotape to the places where my shoes were rubbing me and even so I was half limping most of the way home. |
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During particularly harsh beginnings upon landing in the New World, desperate colonists resorted to human flesh for sustenance. |
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I've resorted to making my own tonkotsu broth over 24 hours. |
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The named individuals have resorted to coaxing players to quit after encountering stumbling blocks with the clubs in securing the release of the players for trials abroad. |
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To keep himself loose and pliable and imbued with the mischievousness that nourished him, Paul often resorted to practical jokes. |
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In your desire to blacken the reputation of this country, you have resorted to the dissemination of falsehoods, misrepresentations and innuendos without any factual basis. |
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The Massachusetts draftees then resorted to the silent but effective nonviolent resistance of mass desertions, refusal to obey the hated officers, and going on sick call. |
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Others have resorted to twitches, blindfolds and tying up a front leg. |
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The famous bodysnatchers Burke and Hare were never charged with violation of sepulchre because they eventually resorted to murder as a way of finding bodies to sell. |
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I haven't resorted to taking uppers or any other sort of chemical relief from all the stress, including the migraine pills which my girlfriend has been doing lately. |
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To re-establish chivalry the king resorted to nobiliary archetypes from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and placed himself as a mirror for the nobility to imitate. |
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Some residents have resorted to asking friends, unaffected by the interference, to video a programme for them as it is the only way they can watch it clearly. |
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For those that do not produce seeds or offsets readily, propagation by bulb-scales is resorted to, each healthy scale being capable of producing a new bulb at its base. |
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Often they resorted to psychological trickery such as planting a seeming dumb boy to come as a suppliant to the temple and then to recover his voice. |
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These rationalizations are resorted to by true believers, to maintain their belief despite the failures and paradoxes that they constantly encounter. |
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Unable to buy supplies, military commanders resorted to impressment of food and animals, undermining civilian morale and burdening farmers nearest the troops. |
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In Sri Lanka, where the ruling class has resorted to communalism to buttress its rule for decades, nationalism takes particularly reactionary forms. |
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French and Spanish naval architects, for instance, resorted to industrial espionage to steal the construction secrets of ships such as the Victory. |
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In your desire to blacken the reputation of Indonesia, you have resorted to the dissemination of falsehoods, misrepresentations and innuendos without any factual basis. |
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Morocco attacked from the start only to discover that the Congolese had no intention of being cannon fodder and the North Africans resorted to long-range shots. |
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It was only after the desperate father resorted to using his family connections and contacted the Prime Minister's office that a search for the missing student was launched. |
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In face of this social misery, the ruling coalition has resorted to forestalling parliamentary elections and thwarting an inquiry into corruption. |
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Another point to note is that there was never enough money being sold at the auctions, so people resorted to other outlets where they could buy the forex they needed. |
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Canvassing for the leadership contest degenerated into a vicious campaign in which all kinds of foul means including promise of office and bribery were resorted to. |
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The weather started out grey and chill but has warmed steadily until, today, I resorted to wearing a pair of scruffy old shorts around the house and garden. |
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This situation could change and revert dramatically to the stage of gynaecocracy if women resorted to promiscuity and had children whose fathers could not be identified. |
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Rather than decide to actually cover this story of monstrous proportions, they resorted instead to bogus and pathetic bouts of existential soul-searching. |
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Seeing the situation going out of control, even the policemen employed at the venue resorted to lathicharge inviting backlashes from villagers. |
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President Miguel de la Madrid resorted to currency devaluations which in turn sparked inflation. |
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Faced with so many restrictions, Omanis have resorted to unconventional methods for expressing their views. |
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Masters and overseers resorted to physical punishments to impose their wills. |
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Such were the deprivations of the Crusaders that at times they are thought to have resorted to cannabilism. |
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By now he was so short of money that he resorted to professional wrestling. |
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In just over a month's time, both Tolars resorted to using a gun when facing bad guys. |
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And the company haven't resorted to titivating the car to bolster sales with the new Impreza range. |
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Matthew Dunford, prosecuting, told how the gang's boss, Beveridge, resorted to violent intimidation in pursuit of drug cash. |
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Unable to raise revenue without Parliament and unwilling to convene it, Charles resorted to other means. |
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I became anxious that I needed the buzz of the city to write and resorted to tricking my brain into getting started by buying a roll-top desk. |
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With varying degrees of success, police have resorted to using speed humps, surveillance cameras and crackdowns on jaywalkers and speeders. |
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Nearly one lakh auto rickshaw drivers have resorted to arm twisting to get the Delhi government's new City Taxi scheme revoked. |
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Other fans resorted to abuse and threats, causing writer James Moran to fire off an angry missive in a blog post. |
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For a while, Gornstein resorted to spitting on his earpiece to clean it off figuring that was better then getting an earful of crud. |
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Kieran Rainey, defending, said Hipkins resorted to burglary to fund his pounds 30 to pounds 40-a-day habit of Valium tablets. |
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The kings resorted to bribes, and the Spanish king became Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. |
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I said ok and resorted to only taunting or using a taunt spell to get mobs off the wizzy but the cleric got up me for that too. |
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Kolkata police officials resorted to lathicharge to disperse the protestors who had blocked the roads in the city. |
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Police also resorted to mild lathicharge to control when the crowd started pelting stones at the cops. |
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Potash was scarce because of the Napoleonic Wars, and Bernard Courtois had resorted to varec imported from the Brittany and Normandy seacoasts. |
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Earlier in the day, police resorted to lathicharge, in which at least two dozen people sustained serious injuries. |
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One should remember that even Darwin resorted to Lamarckianism in later editions of The Origin of Species. |
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So we just heard the desperate colonists resorted to cannibalism. |
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Aveiro even resorted to her own plans to abort the foetus herself when a doctor refused to terminate the pregnancy. |
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Some people reacted to the municipal police claiming that they resorted to plastic bullet during the supervision. |
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Several pathological labs have resorted to invest heftily and have been adopting fully automated systems for disease diagnosis. |
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Burning torches and heated irons are sometimes resorted to as aids in subduing unamiable and obstinate animals. |
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His nose, however, again gushed out blood, a system of defence which seemed as natural to him as that resorted to by the race of stinkards. |
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King Edward, having failed to deal with Moray by force of arms, now resorted to more subtle methods. |
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He did not desire to break the peace himself, and resorted to a variety of stratagems in order to induce the Saguntines to attack. |
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The inheritance of the son never resorted to the mother, or to any of her ancestors. |
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It is highly unlikely that Slater resorted to physical punishment, relying on a system of fines. |
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Nearly a quarter of disputes reached an amicable solution, in other cases the parties to the dispute resorted to adjudication. |
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Loyalists were alienated when the Patriots resorted to violence, such as burning houses and tarring and feathering. |
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He was one of the many Islamists who resorted to militancy after being released from prison at the beginning of Anwar El-Sadat's presidency. |
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He may have resorted to cannibalism before submitting to slavery in order to secure passage out of the swampy Java shore. |
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Forced to ad-lib on stage for several minutes when Sir Elton John was delayed, he resorted to doing the David Brent dance which featured in an episode from The Office. |
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The government eventually resorted to hiring none other than Sir Isaac Newton to certify the soundness of Wood's coinage to counter Swift's accusations. |
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To the contrary, Robbins resorted to such pleonastic phraseology as a means of emphasizing the inscrutability of these data and their modes of change to the theorist. |
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With nothing to hold onto, the men resorted to dog-paddling. |
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Conversely, Loyalists were often emboldened when Patriots resorted to intimidating suspected Tories, such as destroying property or tarring and feathering. |
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The struggle against the aristocracy turned into wholesale slaughter, while the Emperor resorted to ever more ruthless measures to shore up his regime. |
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In Mombasa, Dom Vasco da Gama resorted to piracy, looting Arab merchant ships, which were generally unarmed trading vessels without heavy cannons. |
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The phenomenological reduction may be considered as a methodological device resorted to for the sake of arriving at radical and radically justified philosophical knowledge. |
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The patient was so agitated that the doctor resorted to sedation. |
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Brownlow had failed to buy out the commoners, so resorted to this action. |
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The submarine and surface ships had a long period of success before Britain resorted to the convoy system, bringing a large reduction in shipping losses. |
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He had decided to ingratiate himself with Morphou campaigners such as mayor Charalambos Pittas and DIKO MEP Antigoni Papadopoulou and resorted to sloganeering. |
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In the vicinity of modern Kenya, the expedition resorted to piracy, looting Arab merchant ships that were generally unarmed trading vessels without heavy cannons. |
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He was crazed with thirst and resorted to drinking seawater. |
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The Germans made repeated attacks on the bridge using bombs attached to driftwood, midget submarines and later resorted to shelling the bridge with 88mm barrages. |
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From his experience in Milford, it is highly unlikely that Slater resorted to physical punishment of the children, relying instead on a system of fines. |
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At least 18 protesters were also injured after police fired rubber pellets and resorted to lathicharge at Rangajan in Golaghat district on Tuesday. |
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All in all, it seems that the Erdoy-an government has put into practice its Envero-Islamist adventurist foreign policy and has resorted to some illegitimate hard-power games. |
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The dreadful punishment of immuring persons, or burying them alive in the walls of convents, was undoubtedly sometimes resorted to by monastic communities. |
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In 1613, Basque, Dutch, and French whaling vessels resorted to Bellsund, but were either ordered away by armed English vessels or forced to pay a fine of some sort. |
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The government increasingly resorted to force in its attempts to stamp out the Cameronians and the other Society Men, in a period subsequently labelled as the Killing Time. |
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For this he resorted, like other writers, to literary sources. |
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Gordon resorted to hiring a fleet of ships and forcibly transporting his Hebridean crofters to Canada, where they were conveniently abandoned on Canadian authorities. |
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During most of this period, they resorted to governing Bahrain indirectly, either through the city of Bushehr or through immigrant Sunni Arab clans. |
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