How To Use last resort In A Sentence
- Cold, light, and selfish in the last resort, he had that modicum of prudence, miscalled morality, which keeps a man from inconvenient drunkenness or punishable theft.
- The convention allows for lawful detention of children for the shortest possible period of time and as a matter of last resort.
- Public housing has been transformed into an ever-diminishing refuge of last resort.
- Surgery is a last resort, though it sometimes is necessary.
- As a result, some politicians have begun to think of war, not as the high-risk recourse of last resort, but as an attractive foreign policy option in times of domestic scandal or economic decline.
- In the last resort we can always walk home.
- They reduce the frequency and intensity with which the authorities must intervene as lenders of last resort to avert systemic crises.
- Actual punishment should only be used as a last resort; a sharp tap with a cardboard strip is quite sufficient.
- Miliband decided to risk serious barracking by telling the TUC he could not support the strikes, even though industrial action was sometimes a necessary last resort. Ed Miliband endures rough ride at TUC after criticism of pension strike action
- They are a technically reliable threat of last resort to discourage a foe from pressing too hard or threatening national survival.
