How To Use Recourse In A Sentence

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.
Having neither opium nor hashish on hand, and being desirous of filling his brain with twilight, he had had recourse to that fearful mixture of brandy, stout, absinthe, which produces the most terrible of lethargies. Les Miserables
Now, the Pastons had recourse to the courts, but also felt able to join the political conflict themselves.
If you violate the country's camera use rules, they may confiscate your equipment and we have absolutely no recourse.
So, a private individual is entitled to automatic recourse if a supplier fails to deliver, but a company may not.

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They are a means of keeping the constitution in tune with changing political circumstances without recourse to legislation.
She made a complete recovery without recourse to surgery.
The priests of one settlement have their own special deities to whom they and their relatives have recourse, while the priests of another settlement have another set of deities for their tutelaries, with whom they intercede, either for themselves or for such of their friends as may need assistance. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir
And unless I make haste to circumvent this prepotent beast I am lost without recourse; and how well saith the poet, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Many of these workers are undocumented immigrants who have little recourse to legal action if they are injured on the job.
There's never a constable around when you need one so the only recourse was that taken by the driver of a bus who sat thumping the horn repeatedly until the twerp came along to move and clear the jam.
In the end, this band of storytellers has no other recourse when faced with political or personal difficulties than the remembrance of movies past. Times, Sunday Times
The recourse to 'extraliterary' theory is not in itself, however, a methodological error. Anaesthetic Criticism: I
The truth is, we're just beginning the real descent into Lawsuit Hell - a place where average citizens injured by delinquent doctors or defective products are denied any recourse.
It enabled its members to settle their differences without recourse to war.
Tampering tends to be the recourse of underdeveloped political forces or rulers that are weak or unable to afford the luxury of costly campaigns.
his only recourse was the police
For even if that be so, he must in addition show that there is an arguable case for his having recourse to the funds in question.
Assets rediscounted under the TALF are non-recourse loans, which means that the Fed will bear all risks associated with these assets. Asia Times Online
And no dispute in French politics is complete without constant recourse to history. The Government and Politics of France
Innocent victims of online abuse must have a recourse to protection. The Sun
Their system of dispute resolution avoids recourse to the courts.
‘If the customer terminates the contract without a good reason there is a recourse we can take,’ he said.
It's the ultimate haute Robinson Crusoe hideaway: a handful of thatched villas, constructed by local artisans without recourse to a single nail, incorporating driftwood and reclaimed tree trunks as wall supports and table legs.
Out here, the only recourse is good astrogation, and the good cold dark to hide in… Doctor’s Orders
Illuminating reality without recourse to truth is proving a difficult proposition.
Clients have considered recourse to the European Court over this.
I couldn't tell which direction without recourse to a map.
So, natch, both seized on that old standby issue to which political and religious reactionaries have recourse when things are going badly for them: gay bashing.
I was hardly the first person to have recourse to the sortes Virgilianae in time of confusion or trouble. Sick Cycle Carousel
As a mother, I appreciate the moral and emotional force of this recourse to the maternal.
He could renew the ship's guardrails without recourse to a dockyard.
Their potential negligence may have put you in breach of your legal obligations as a landlord, and your tenant could seek recourse through a claim for damages. Times, Sunday Times
Those wishing to walk more easily up Pavey Ark without recourse to scrambling should head around Stickle Tarn in an anti-clockwise direction and follow a path along the side of Bright Beck.
Maybe in the humanities there is no recourse from representation, mediation, story-telling, and social saturation.
Though much of his career was outside South Australia, the abilities of Sir Richard Blackburn greatly impressed those before whom he appeared and those who have had recourse to his judgments.
He does not smoke, drink or take drugs, so those recourses would have been barred to him.
We may conclude that he never had recourse to this simple experiment.
The government's assertion that torture and summary executions might be carried out without recourse to the law clearly shocked the court.
At a time when parenting skills were at the Neanderthal level, threats of Hell may have been a parent's only recourse.
Munday the 14. of Iune, the wind blew so harde out of the North, that wee could not beare our topsailes with our forecourse which sailed South, the sunne was southward we had Port a Porte of vs, being in 41. degrees and 20 minuts. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
You know what that means: think of a slowly braised oxtail stew that you can eat with a fork or spoon, without recourse to a knife.
Other males and male offspring have no recourse but either to accept celibacy, look elsewhere, or kill the father.
The event is then presented, rightly, with its connection to "aggiornamento," but it is passed through the filter of Chenu and of the "pastoral focus," but here again with further recourse to this theologian, and the mention of the disagreement with his "approach to research" on the part of the late Mons. A Timely Re-Read on a Critique of a Particular, and Popular, Hermeneutic of Vatican II
But in Nicholas's Russia the dilatory procedures alone made recourse to law ruinous for anyone who had no strings to pull.
That might strike you as tantamount to financial and moral failure, but seen another way the late payers are taking advantage of the fact that mortgages are noncallable and also usually nonrecourse. Learning to Love Your Home Loan
His wearying recourse to the one-liner is the literary equivalent of tossing choc drops to the reader.
Political and ideological arrangements upheld this right, and when they failed, the ruling class had recourse to force.
As Tatar has observed, it was no accident, given the roots of psychoanalysis in mesmerism and hypnosis, that Freud should so often have had recourse to the vocabulary of hydraulics and electromagnetism in formulating his metapsychology (43-44). Re-collecting Spontaneous Overflows
But historians will be uncomfortable with Gleason's frequent recourse to terms like the frontier, corporate capitalism, and industrialization as explanatory or heuristic devices.
Having no recourse to an inquest also forces bereaved parents down the road of litigation. Times, Sunday Times
The French King preferred having recourse to a recoinage. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07
There are other, often more immediately beneficial, sources of assistance during unemployment besides recourse to the courts for damages.
An order was made against which he sought recourse in the supreme court.
Although participants remained highly critical of unregulated ethnomedicine, few had recourse to desired alternatives.
with vain labors" on My part to purify her without being obliged to have recourse to judgments (compare Isa 43: 24; Mal 2: 17) [Maurer]. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
We would prefer to have compliance without recourse to legal action.
Try to avoid paying cash, as there is little recourse if things go wrong. The Sun
The author, when unpatronised by the Great, has naturally recourse to the bookseller. Life of Johnson
This is extremely important: That Settlement says that designation entitles Google to sell the book, and authors who opt in have no legal recourse for harm caused by Google’s competition with their in-print book except an arbitration board controlled by Google. BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Le Guin on the Google Settlement: Continued Discussion
Bronson's present production is an amalgam of shamanistic enterprise, healing sculpture, imagery, and spiritual-erotic massage-performance art that has been unofficially branded as the gay male recourse to living with the detonator of HIV still ticking in the mind despite the apparent if dubious constraint of the lentivirus in the absence of a certain cure. G. Roger Denson: MoMA and AA Bronson Present "Queer Cinema: Today and Yesterday"
He left the garden in the same manner, but backwards, being obliged, in order to keep the dog respectful, to have recourse to that manoeuvre with his stick which masters in that sort of fencing designate as la rose couverte. Les Miserables
Whether those kangaroo courts (if they ever come to pass) or the regular federal courts will have recourse to the death penalty remains to be seen, but it seems likely.
revindication" and has recourse to the opinion of experts, if he considers such expert opinion necessary for the elucidation of the rights of the parties, etc.; he takes part in deciding and in the drafting of the judgment, which he signs with the Chinese The Fight for the Republic in China
Having no recourse to an inquest also forces bereaved parents down the road of litigation. Times, Sunday Times
The Author has had recourse to every means within his reach to assure himself of the genuineness of this document, and to ascertain (p. 378) that the testator was the William Gascoyne [339] who was Chief Justice of the King's Bench. Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth
Nor had he wanted to have recourse to the services of an Astropath belonging to a pious and loyal fraternal organization.
Hence it had recourse to adjudication to advance that process of agreement.
The only recourse is disciplinary action. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps China will commit some egregious deed that spurs reversal of the present momentum, but now that the military point is made, the more likely avenue of recourse is diplomatic work to mitigate recently shored-up alliances involving India, Japan and South Korea. China's Military Buildup Won't Stop The Defense Bear
We cold just get into the sailroom and got up a new forecourse and stuck it full of oakum and rags, and put itt under the ship's bottom; this is called fothering the ship. "The Gallant, Good Riou", and Jack Renton 1901
Sancho had recourse to the larder of his alforjas and took out of them what he called the prog; Don Quixote rinsed his mouth and bathed his face, by which cooling process his flagging energies were revived. Don Quixote
This is often a last recourse, only reluctantly resorted to when a party is clearly concealing income.
We may conclude that he never had recourse to this simple experiment.
The study of these creatures has been conducted without direct recourse to living specimens.
With his entirely exceptional capacity for work, he was perhaps the person who most contributed to maintaining alive the theological, exegetical and spiritual culture to which successive centuries would pay recourse. Benedict on the Liturgy: "The Faith is not only thought"
Nor is this all; Critognatus in his harangue tells them that their ancestors had had recourse to the same kind of sustenance in the war with the Cimbri and Teutones. A Philosophical Dictionary
The wonder is that valetudinarians have not more frequently availed themselves of the advantages it offers, instead of having recourse to watering-places.
She made some very good points, such as the lack of legal recourse for the innocent. Times, Sunday Times
Hume certainly would not have accepted the "rice theory" in explanation of the social state of the Hindoos; and, it may be safely assumed, that he would not have had recourse to the circumambience of the "melancholy main" to account for the troublous history of Ireland. Hume (English Men of Letters Series)
They are a means of keeping the constitution in tune with changing political circumstances without recourse to legislation.
Financial business was disrupted as debtors died and their creditors found themselves without recourse.
As they did not insist on punishing the guilty, his supporters could take recourse to the ambiguities in political procedures to fudge the issue of criminal responsibility altogether.
The ensuing race to the deadline is a pacy affair that alternates between the hapless Tamara's frequent recourse to her thesaurus S*nday, she reckons, is just the place to scatter words such as "chthonic" and "hermeneutic" and Tait's grim determination to keep her would-be profiler at bay, particularly from her rather murky private life. The Spoiler by Annalena McAfee – review
Without free expression, rights may be trammelled with no recourse in the court of public opinion.
Eustace bridge, upper Leeson street, though from prolonged summer drouth and daily supply of 12 1/2 million gallons the water had fallen below the sill of the overflow weir for which reason the borough surveyor and waterworks engineer, Mr Spencer Harty, C. E., on the instructions of the waterworks committee had prohibited the use of municipal water for purposes other than those of consumption (envisaging the possibility of recourse being had to the impotable water of the Grand and Royal canals as in 1893) particularly as the South Dublin Guardians, notwithstanding their ration of 15 gallons per day per pauper supplied through a 6 inch meter, had been convicted of a wastage of 20,000 gallons per night by Ulysses
Indeed, a person married to a cruel or irresponsible spouse had little recourse but to run away or accept the unhappy situation. America Past and Present
It's a reassuring recourse for women like me who might even be accused of approaching life too conservatively, too responsibly.
They tried to settle the dispute without recourse to the courts.
But, as is so often the case, such strong measures were the recourse of a weak regime.
We, after all live on an increasingly polluted planet of finite recourses and space.
In many areas of medicine, doctors and families decide on treatment without recourse to the courts. Times, Sunday Times
As this was beyond the capacity of the drubber of sheepskin, he was fain to have recourse to the inoffensive row-de - dow as a harmless substitute for the sacred music which his instrument or skill were unable to achieve. Waverley — Complete
The character given of the fellows to whom the captain was obliged to have recourse, by the person who recommended their being applied to, was, that for a ducatoon they would cut their master’s throat, burn the house over his head, and bury him and the whole family in the ashes. Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook
The enemy may have recourse to steel instead of poison.
They should have no recourse in law against anyone who bought the original copy, provided it was not done as a rival commercial venture, nor should anyone benefitting from that be incommoded. Archive 2009-07-01
Gibraltar, they all agreed, would not, like themselves, have been compelled to have recourse to a stream of lava for their supply of heat; they, no doubt, had had abundance of fuel as well as food; and in their solid casemate, with its substantial walls, they would find ample shelter from the rigor of the cold. Off on a Comet
Junk faxes are illegal because a significant cost is shifted to the recipient without recourse.
The subsoil at Varrains being largely composed of marl, which is much softer than the tufa of the Saint-Florent coteau, necessitated the roofs of the new galleries being worked in a particular form in order to avoid having recourse to either brickwork or masonry. Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines
His eventual recourse to a standard of five argues indifference or insensibility.
For those who embarked on a literary career, the only recourse was to draw their subsistence from the value of their writing when they signed their contract with a bookseller.
The concept gives a payee a direct right of recourse against the drawee bank, although if there are no funds then generally the drawee does not have to pay.
Because the system is by nature anonymous and ungoverned, there is virtually no recourse, no customer service to call. Times, Sunday Times
In the modern world it is only despotisms which have recourse to the firing squad or the noose.
The government, when necessary has recourse to the armed forces.
The government, when necessary has recourse to the armed forces.
That need is most frequently satisfied by recourse to a nut or three.
It stated that threats and the recourse to force against any Arab country threatened the Arab world in general.
As the branch had, functionally, agreed to negotiate or collect the cheque, it had a collecting bank's right of recourse when the cheque was dishonoured.
After that, according to enterprise circumstances Human Recourses' Equity Accounting is designed for the oil refining company, and the theory is applied to actual situations.
Mr. Ditton, the village lawyer, also saw it without having recourse to the spy-glass; but as Mr. Ditton had but lately had what he called a nip, and indeed several of them, he was in that happy state of sweet good nature which agrees with the last speaker. The Mad Lady
If the bark clysters should bring on costiveness the laudanum may occasionally be omitted; if this is not attended with the desired consequences, we have recourse to a common injection.
In the commercial world, recourse through copyright and legal means is available to those who believe their ideas and works have been stolen.
Since the IWC doesn't regulate small cetaceans, such as porpoises and dolphins, the international body has no recourse to take to stop the slaughter in Taiji. Sarah Newman: Taiji's Dirty Little Secret is Out
I turn to the other recourse for rancid times: the cultivation of my garden.
In the autumn of 1522 Wolsey was compelled to have recourse to a loan from both spiritualty and temporalty. [ Henry VIII.
The health minister instead should take recourse to the existing laws and try and effectively bring back the health department on rails and make the truant doctors more responsive.
Our recourse to legal aid has been exhausted, but the new lawyer has promised not to charge us too much. KANDAHAR COCKNEY: A Tale of Two Worlds
In addition, its ungeared balance sheet means it is well placed to fund an expansion programme without recourse to shareholders for further capital.
Victims who have not issued proceedings by that deadline will not have recourse to the High Court, and have no alternative but to seek redress at the compensation tribunal.
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Lack of recourse and support in the event of being victimized is a huge problem. Thoughts on rescues, rescuers and realities « Bound, Not Gagged
Less active imaginations than that of the Irish peasant would be worked on so as to conclude that some means more _active_ than sickness or old age were had recourse to, for the purpose of lessening the taxes on land, by getting rid of the poor. The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Enter
Hands went scurrying aloft to get in the foretopsail and forecourse, and other hands went to the main braces. Mr. Midshipman Easy
Many of the foreigners were utterly destitute; and their increasing numbers at length forbade a recourse to the usual modes of relief.
Once the disease reaches this stage, euthanasia or mercy killing is the only recourse.
After wishing for wings to fly over to his dear country, which was in his view, from what he calls Thule, as being the most western isle of Scotland, except St. Kilda; after describing the pleasures of society, and the miseries of solitude, he at last, with becoming propriety, has recourse to the only sure relief of thinking men, ” Life of Johnson
It must be enforceable, verifiable, auditable, and effective - with clear recourses, particularly across borders.
Recourse to stabbing is at least potentially more open to abuse.
In a quasi-judicial process that permits appeals, it is my understanding that reasons must be given; and technically, the appeal process is recourse. Do you have a right to marry a foreigner? : Law is Cool
Accordingly, he had recourse to the following measures: he knew that Constantius was hated by all the people who held the homoousian faith and had driven them from the churches and had proscribed and exiled their bishops. A Source Book for Ancient Church History
It renders all applications, such as plasters, totally unnecessary, as well as the repeated dressings to which recourse is usually had in such cases; and it at once removes the soreness necessarily attendant on an ulcerated surface being exposed to the open air. An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers
Recourse to the discourse of human rights allows one to distinguish inexpiable crimes from those that lie within the realm of law and redemption.
It was a very hard seat which Mr. Jeffreys had vacated, and her ladyship, after sitting there over two hours, nodding asleep a good part of the time, began to feel internal sinkings and flutterings which presaged what she called a "swound," and necessitated recourse to a crystal flask of strong waters which she had prudently brought in her muff. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger
Again there is some part of me that wonders whether I am so thoroughly interpellated into the discourse of the confessional that telling of these incidents feels like the only recourse amidst a very real experience of disempowerment: through this lens my indiscretions are brave rather than foolish, I am speaking a truth rather than indulging in potentially defamatory gossip. Dear Intertubes
Restriction and protection is a contradiction which should be settled in Negotiable Instruments Law of the Rights of Recourse of the Bill.
Protests were made on their behalf but, as Henry Toch discovered, self-help was the only effective recourse.
If you don't approve of how I've done something — — the website, for example — — there is a couth and appropriate recourse which will allow you to express your opinion. "Bathsheba of my choosing"
Pearl-bearing oysters can readily be gathered by divers without recourse to elaborate equipment.
She made a striking picture, Evelyn thought, with the great curve of her forecourse, which was still set, stretching high above the foam that spouted about her bows and tier upon tier of gray canvas diminishing aloft. Vane of the Timberlands
Accounts of previous riots suggest that migrant workers have little recourse when they are victims of exploitation. Times, Sunday Times
Their system of dispute resolution avoids recourse to the courts.
If this does not happen, there will be a possible recourse to arms.
The study of these creatures has been conducted without direct recourse to living specimens.
If the precedent of other provinces was followed in Britain, larger landowners would have had recourse to two strategies to protect their interests.
A civilised society should be able to come up with a code of modern morality without recourse to illiberal and authoritarian lawmaking. Times, Sunday Times
The former worships the gross material object, while the latter have recourse to imagery.
He must have been sportive and wanton in his inventions — yet that cruel, that savage sportiveness has saved you from the sudden violence to which he has had recourse in the violation of others, of names and families not contemptible. Clarissa Harlowe
The labor intensiveness of these teams' undertakings virtually mandated collaboration, and often prompted recourse to numerous hands.
This conflict cannot be resolved by recourse to one's faith howsoever true it may be, for every faith or sect makes a basic folly of dividing the world into ‘us ‘and ‘they‘.
The other is indignation at some historians' recourse to contingency and the counterfactual to unsettle old certainties.
In the past, in the absence of legal recourse, chefs sometimes took a devious approach. Times, Sunday Times
And why, I ask, is recourse had to secret and invisible porosities, to uncertain and obscure channels, to explain the passage of the blood into the left ventricle, when there is so open a way through the pulmonary veins? On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
‘They are doing this without recourse to the disciplinary procedures,’ said Ogle.
A spokesman said:'We will now consider the further legal recourse that is available to us. Times, Sunday Times
I'll venture that we believe religion is an effective recourse against mortality.
They are not old enough to understand all they see or do, so by the end their only recourse, and again it's intuitive rather than analytical, is to ride out to the McPheron brothers where they had been well-treated once before and sensed that there was some solace there. Kent Haruf discusses Plainsong
The enemy may have recourse to steel instead of poison.
The order is aimed at deterring anti-social behaviour and preventing escalation of the behaviour, without recourse to criminal sanctions.
LIMITED RECOURSE Contracts for federal student loans stipulate severe penalties and are virtually unbreakable, forgiven only in death, not bankruptcy, and enforced by severe measures, such as garnishee and other legal sanctions, with little recourse. Apollo's Daughter :: Recession Discussion
In other times, and in other societies, it has had recourse to the Inquisition and the gulag.
I offer James's recourse to metaphors of the mystical as an additional, radical instance of the detonative effect of James's philosophical discourse.
I have no other recourse than to inform the police.
A total reliance on fuzzed rhythm guitar is averted by recourse to keys and samplers.
The individual citizen was beginning to learn he had recourse against the all powerful government.
More elegant solutions are worth pursuing as the avenue of first recourse.
The party's most likely recourse is a face-saving compromise with the Ministry of Finance that does not alter the statusquo.
Throughout history, grazing has been the most effective way of boosting the fertility of soils without recourse to chemical fertilisers. Times, Sunday Times
Your only recourse is legal action.
Our sails, wound up, lay without their use, and if at any time we bore but a Hollocke, or half forecourse, to guide her before the Sea, six and sometimes eight men, were not enough to hold the whip-staffe in the steerage, and the tiller below in the Gunner room; by which may be imagined the strength of the storm, in which the Sea swelled above the Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader
The principle of restitution and the hotchpot rule may be combined, e.g., by having recourse to restitution only where the hotchpot rule will not likely lead to inter-creditor fairness.
There are some who imagine that this way of discerning the will of God is impracticable for persons in the world, and that it is only out of the world, as they call the cloistered life, that one can have recourse to it. The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales
Has the ability to use force with impunity lowered the moral standard for the recourse to force considerably from the last-resort requirements of just war?
The French Minister added: ‘The use of force can only be a final recourse.’
Sche allegeis, that sche, seing the defectioun of greit personageis, was compellitt to have recourse to the law of nature, and lyk ane small bird persewit, [964] to provide for sum sure retreitt to hir selff and hir cumpany. The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
And what legal recourse do parents have in a situation like this? Times, Sunday Times
In countering current communal challenges, the person of faith has no simple or unproblematic recourse to religion.
It is this that enables him to captivate the reader without recourse to melodrama, to luxuriate in language without falling into self-indulgence, and to weave the novel's numerous threads together without a hint of jarring contrivance.
The slavers were generally small, handy craft; fast, of course; usually schooner-rigged, and carrying flying topsails and forecourse. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue
To meet the expenses of the great wars on which he was constantly engaged he had to impose taxation which, even if levied by more regular methods, was almost as crushing as the unregulated spoliation under the Mamelukes, and gradually his Mudirs and Mamours and Omdehs had to have recourse to the same methods as the revenue-farmers in the Mameluke days to screw the last piastre out of the helpless fellaheen, whilst recruitment for the armies which demanded incessant reinforcements became an even worse terror than the kurbash of the tax collector and the interminable corvées. The Egyptian Problem
The answer can also be obtained by access to the index without recourse to the data storage area.
Though most victims remain silent, even those who turn to police find no recourse.
Recourse has also been made to vague principles which hypostatize the problem and call it a solution, e.g., ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS
Against that pressure the only recourse without government involvement is labor unions. Stephen Herrington: Open Wide, Minimum Wage Is Good For You
What we have would be better described as thuggish paramilitary units occupying what they regard as hostile territory: like any occupying force, the people they go after the first and the hardest are generally the people who are most vulnerable, and like any other occupying force there is no real recourse for anything they may choose to do on their patrols. Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2008 – September – 22
His Psalm 71 is instructive for he considers the very matter of evildoing, and in psalm after psalm his recourse is in prayer to God.
Rugman, Kirton, and Soloway have provided an essential road map to the new avenues of recourse available to economic and social actors in North America.
Many trade unions have had recourse to what is called, rightly or wrongly, fictitious employees.
The condition of the common people (and belike, in great part, of the middle class also) was yet more pitiable to behold, for that these, for the most part retained by hope [11] or poverty in their houses and abiding in their own quarters, sickened by the thousand daily and being altogether untended and unsuccoured, died well nigh all without recourse. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
Violence should not be a first recourse, but that doesn't change the fact that some people really need to be dealt with.
The states had no recourse but to await the verdict of the high tribunal.
Barthes declared that ' serious recourse to the nomenclature of signification ' was the mark of structuralism and advised interested readers to ' watch who uses signifier and signified, synchrony and diachrony.'
As a last recourse, if we thought that he was in the city, we might contemplate putting some Marines there.
At this point the only possible recourse was to retire, which we did.
As to the question of statutory construction I should myself have construed the section in favour of the taxpayer without recourse to Hansard.
As I will try to explain, the recourse to the term plausibility, related to fuzzy logic, would help the physician to communicate to the patient more efficiently in comparison with the term probability, related to binary logic. BioMed Central - Latest articles
Where the holder is an endorser, he has no right of recourse against the subsequent parties.
The new borrower will insist on some element of non-recourse.
Harsh acts take away people's right of defence in an open court of law, a normal recourse in a democratic structure.
It is also illogical that justice should be rationed: after two unsuccessful reviews, a team can suffer a gross miscarriage without any recourse. Times, Sunday Times

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