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  • She asked about whether the strikers had any legal recourse if the company violated the terms of the strike agreement.†   (source)
  • What recourse does she have?†   (source)
  • When he became aware of his first bouts of forgetfulness, he had recourse to a tactic he had heard about from one of his teachers at the Medical School: "The man who has no memory makes one out of paper."†   (source)
  • Individuals could thus also ask philosophical questions without recourse to ancient myths.†   (source)
  • My only recourse, I decided, was to act bored, as though the company of no one but Nobu could possibly interest me.†   (source)
  • Now, laid open, she had no recourse but to hurry along the tunnel of her anger, headlong.†   (source)
  • His one recourse, then, was to trust in the ancient animal wisdom of his flesh, which told him tomove .†   (source)
  • I hated to lie to them, but with Moody looming over me, I had no recourse.†   (source)
  • If they wouldn't listen when you used your very loudest voice, a scream became your only recourse.†   (source)
  • Foxes, stoats, weasels—any of these might be encountered, and the only recourse would be flight above ground.†   (source)
  • At such times his only recourse was to pretend the questions had hit him in his deaf ear, the left one, which hadn't really worked well since the day of their big fight with the Keechis--what they called the Stone House fight.†   (source)
  • "They know that a woman humiliated in that way has no other recourse except suicide," Mukhtar wrote later.†   (source)
  • It was unfortunate that he had to strike Adams, but there was no recourse.†   (source)
  • He knew, as I was later to discover when I walked into Doubleday on Fifth Avenue in New York and bought This Boy's Life, Wolffs own story, that memory could save, that it had power, that it was often the only recourse of the powerless, the oppressed, or the brutalized.†   (source)
  • He'd written, "The doctor who treats himself has a fool for a patient, but there are circumstances when he has no recourse …."†   (source)
  • We aren't without recourse, my lord.†   (source)
  • The only recourse was to retreat to the fort with all speed.†   (source)
  • It's our word against hers – In a human world,I reminded her, almost sad that I didn't have access to that sort of recourse.†   (source)
  • We die in our hundreds, unthanked, unmourned but by our own kind, and without recourse to the Angel who created us.†   (source)
  • The Knight of Flowers had no recourse but to follow at her heels like the puppy he was.†   (source)
  • The decision to speak to Dr. Robert Stadler had been her last recourse.†   (source)
  • And yet I had no other, further plan; there was no good recourse from her required duties to the camp, there was no actual reprieve I was offering her.†   (source)
  • Forbidden to look at his superiors, much less walk into a room unannounced, he turned the latch and stepped in quietly, protected only by recourse to questions and statements such as, "You sent for me to collect the dishes?" or "The chef recommends the salmon pate."†   (source)
  • Several of the other spokesmen had complained about the change, but though the fishing towns could often exert some influence on the principle city in matters of public concern, they had little recourse in an issue as trivial to the general populace as this.†   (source)
  • One recourse: Can't go back.†   (source)
  • If the other tire blew, there we were, on a wet and lonesome road, having no recourse except to burst into tears and wait for death.†   (source)
  • Since it is rather inconsequential whether a public school teacher agrees with a dictum passed down from his superintendent or not, my only recourse is to answer you without regard to our positions.†   (source)
  • Most problems Star could solve shooting from the hip—no recourse to the Black Room and a full hookup.†   (source)
  • Equality depends, not on the force of arms or tear gas, but depends upon the force of moral right--not on recourse to violence, but on respect for law and order.†   (source)
  • Careful instructions were given to organizers and members to avoid any recourse to violence.†   (source)
  • But the rest of it was true enough: I was transfixed, I could not move, I had no recourse.†   (source)
  • Men will be too economical of their blood and property to have recourse to them very frequently.†   (source)
  • Save Aren for when we have no other recourse.†   (source)
  • But instead of having recourse to the same distracting remedies he gave to his patients, he went mad with terror.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, in three emergency situations he had recourse to the simple strategy of an era before his time: he disguised his friends, who were afraid of being recognized, as men, and they walked into the hotel together as if they were two gentlemen out on the town.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza sat in the park where he was sure he would be seen, and then he did not have recourse to his feigned reading but sat with the book open and his eyes fixed on the illusory maiden, who did not even respond with a charitable glance.†   (source)
  • As a last resort he had recourse to all the herbs that the Indians hawked in the public market and to all the magical specifics and Oriental potions sold in the Arcade of the Scribes, but by the time he realized that he had been swindled, he already had the tonsure of a saint.†   (source)
  • She heard the accordions in her detours around disenchantment, she heard the shouts from the cockfighting pits, the bursts of gunfire that could just as well signal war as revelry, and when she had no other recourse and had to pass through a village, she covered her face with her mantilla so that she could remember it as it once had been.†   (source)
  • Having lost her courage, in a miserable state of demoralization, Meme had no other recourse but to bear up under it.†   (source)
  • To have fled as he did had been Jefferson's only realistic recourse, but it had cost him in reputation.†   (source)
  • Alexander, I have gone my whole life without ever taking recourse to this path, save once, when I learned my lesson.†   (source)
  • "I wanted to tell you I was getting off at Souillac," Jean-Luc is saying when I am able to focus on him, and not my complete and utter lack of recourse if he starts trying to kill me, "but I was afraid you'd feel embarrassed."†   (source)
  • Later on, when Ursula insisted that Remedios the Beauty go to mass with her face covered with a shawl, Amaranta thought that a mysterious recourse like that would turn out to be so provoking that soon a man would come who would be intrigued enough to search out patiently for the weak point of her heart.†   (source)
  • Oh, you're not, are you?" snarled Pete, who had but one recourse when in doubt: his hand jerked to the gun on his hip.†   (source)
  • There seemed no recourse: however, but to bide my time until Mammal recovered enough to return to Iran.†   (source)
  • Now, in the dismal aftermath of defeat, the idea of risking the fate of America in defense of New York seemed so senseless that submitting to the "dispensations of Providence," as he said, was about the only recourse left.†   (source)
  • Having no other recourse, Roran resorted to the unexpected: he stuck his head and neck out and shouted, "Bah!" just as he would if he were trying to scare someone in a dark hallway.†   (source)
  • Incredulously, he realized what it was that had been expected of him: he, the victim, chained, bound, gagged and left with no recourse save to bribery, had been expected to believe that the farce he had purchased was a process of law, that the edicts enslaving him had moral validity, that he was guilty of corrupting the integrity of the guardians of justice, and that the blame was his, not theirs.†   (source)
  • By means of that recourse the insomniacs began to live in a world built on the uncertain alternatives of the cards, where a father was remembered faintly as the dark man who had arrived at the beginning of April and a mother was remembered only as the dark woman who wore a gold ring on her left hand, and where a birth date was reduced to the last Tuesday on which a lark sang in the laurel tree.†   (source)
  • She resigned herself to waiting until the rain stopped and the mail service was back to normal, and in the meantime she sought relief from her secret ailments with recourse to her imagination, because she would rather have died than put herself in the hands of the only doctor left in Macondo, the extravagant Frenchman who ate grass like a donkey.†   (source)
  • We first broke the law in a way which avoided any recourse to violence; when this form was legislated against, and then the Government resorted to a show of force to crush opposition to its policies, only then did we decide to answer violence with violence.†   (source)
  • He knows almost to the second when he should begin to hear it, without recourse to watch or clock.†   (source)
  • He, Father Paneloux, refused to have recourse to simple devices enabling him to scale that wall.†   (source)
  • I had recourse to the drug only when physical pain plagued me beyond endurance.†   (source)
  • "Thou art the living fount of hope," prays Dante, at the end of his safe passage through the perils of the Three Worlds; "Lady, thou art so great and so availest, that whoso would have grace, and has not recourse to thee, would have his desire fly without wings.†   (source)
  • Many of these natures are wholly incapable of ever having recourse to real suicide, because they have a profound consciousness of the sin of doing so.†   (source)
  • He told them that after having made it clear that this plague came from God for the punishment of their sins, he would not have recourse, in concluding, to an eloquence that, considering the tragic nature of the occasion, would be out of keeping.†   (source)
  • Without recourse to clock he could know immediately upon the thought just where, in his old life, he would be and what doing between the two fixed moments which marked the beginning and the end of Sunday morning service and Sunday evening service and prayer service on Wednesday night; just when he would have been entering the church, just when he would have been bringing to a calculated close prayer or sermon.†   (source)
  • Once assured that there was no way of getting out of the town by lawful methods, he decided, as he told Rieux, to have recourse to others.†   (source)
  • But I put my resolution in this way: the next time I felt that I must have recourse to the opium, I might allow myself to use big means instead of small, that is, a death of absolute certainty with a bullet or a razor.†   (source)
  • It was as little right that a woman like me should have no other choice than to grow old in poverty and in a senseless way at a typewriter in the pay of a money-maker, or to marry such a man for his money's sake, or to become some kind of drudge, as for a man like you to be forced in his loneliness and despair to have recourse to a razor.†   (source)
  • Thus the Prefect, who had always been reluctant to employ the prisoners in the jail, whether short-term men or lifers, was able to avoid recourse to this distasteful measure.†   (source)
  • If this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods.†   (source)
  • He had recourse to his pipe that evening to help him study it out, much to Marilla's disgust.†   (source)
  • There was no recourse for him but to search till he met Jett or found his camp.†   (source)
  • The one recourse left him was to doze when a place offered and he could get the money to occupy it.†   (source)
  • When I saw myself thus far removed from all earthly help I had recourse to heavenly succour.†   (source)
  • To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.†   (source)
  • She had recourse to the expedient of children who live in a constant state of fear.†   (source)
  • They had to have recourse to the sure, never-failing topic—gossip.†   (source)
  • Emboldened by the sight of the sheriff, Mr. Doolittle again had recourse to his lungs.†   (source)
  • He was in pain till the morning, but did not have recourse to Bazarov's skill.†   (source)
  • She shook her head sadly and had, as usual, recourse to the waterworks.†   (source)
  • The post's recourse to arms was not without result.†   (source)
  • Like all upstarts, he had had recourse to a great deal of haughtiness to maintain his position.†   (source)
  • "There's no help for it, we must have recourse to Perezvon.†   (source)
  • Sometimes the poor have recourse to me for help.†   (source)
  • Pierce played up with a grin until Casasus had authorized the check and had no further recourse to detain Dick, whom he liked, than to stand up holding his pince-nez and repeat, "Yes, he's in California.†   (source)
  • If the Spirit was willfully malicious, one had no recourse but to turn to the body, which one could get hold of.†   (source)
  • With no power to annul the elemental evil in him, tho' readily enough he could hide it; apprehending the good, but powerless to be it; a nature like Claggart's surcharged with energy as such natures almost invariably are, what recourse is left to it but to recoil upon itself and like the scorpion for which the Creator alone is responsible, act out to the end the part allotted it.†   (source)
  • To clear the matter up, I declare now that I did have recourse to his assistance, and that I paid him six roubles for it.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately my parents had recourse to principles entirely different from those which I suggested they should adopt when they came to form their estimate of my uncle's conduct.†   (source)
  • Without recourse to any moral principle, having for your foundation only individual selfishness, and the satisfaction of material desires?†   (source)
  • The truth which he cherished was that which Odette would tell him; but he himself, in order to extract that truth from her, was not afraid to have recourse to falsehood, that very falsehood which he never ceased to depict to Odette as leading every human creature down to utter degradation.†   (source)
  • We are told by historians that widespread famines occurred in those days every two or three years, and such was the condition of things that men actually had recourse to cannibalism, in secret, of course.†   (source)
  • "I can but thank you," he said, in a tone too respectful to be sincere, "for your kindness in letting me speak, for I have often noticed that our Liberals never allow other people to have an opinion of their own, and immediately answer their opponents with abuse, if they do not have recourse to arguments of a still more unpleasant nature."†   (source)
  • It is in vain I represent that, before the sequestration of emigrant property, I had remitted the imposts they had ceased to pay; that I had collected no rent; that I had had recourse to no process.†   (source)
  • "—Then having recourse to her workbasket, in excuse for leaning down her face, and concealing all the exquisite feelings of delight and entertainment which she knew she must be expressing, she added, "Well, now tell me every thing; make this intelligible to me.†   (source)
  • Franz and Albert were like men who, to drive away a violent sorrow, have recourse to wine, and who, as they drink and become intoxicated, feel a thick veil drawn between the past and the present.†   (source)
  • Whenever a point could be established by the aid of written documents, I have had recourse to the original text, and to the most authentic and approved works.†   (source)
  • After the latter, having in vain tried the effects of hostility, had recourse in artifice in order to prevail over their rivals.†   (source)
  • Mary Garth, discerning his distress in the twitchings of his mouth, and his recourse to a cough, came cleverly to his rescue by asking him to change seats with her, so that he got into a shadowy corner.†   (source)
  • In his situation it was necessary to have recourse to the police; not because the affair had anything to do with them directly but because they acted more promptly than other authorities.†   (source)
  • And why could you not have explained things to her, and in view of your position, which you describe as being so awful, why could you not have had recourse to the plan which would so naturally have occurred to one's mind, that is, after honorably confessing your errors to her, why could you not have asked her to lend you the sum needed for your expenses, which, with her generous heart, she would certainly not have refused you in your distress, especially if it had been with some…†   (source)
  • "Oh God!" his companion murmured; and, sitting there in her ripe freshness, she had recourse to the same gesture she had provoked on Isabel's part in the morning: she bent her face and covered it with her hands.†   (source)
  • The little white attic, which had continued her sleeping-room ever since her first entering the family, proving incompetent to suggest any reply, she had recourse, as soon as she was dressed, to another apartment more spacious and more meet for walking about in and thinking, and of which she had now for some time been almost equally mistress.†   (source)
  • Then, as they had been accustomed to do, they had recourse to M. de Treville, who made some advances on their pay; but these advances could not go far with three Musketeers who were already much in arrears and a Guardsman who as yet had no pay at all.†   (source)
  • …round pink cheeks that refused to look formidable, let him frown as he would before the looking-glass (Philip had once told him of a man who had a horseshoe frown, and Tom had tried with all his frowning might to make a horseshoe on his forehead), he had had recourse to that unfailing source of the terrible, burnt cork, and had made himself a pair of black eyebrows that met in a satisfactory manner over his nose, and were matched by a less carefully adjusted blackness about the chin.†   (source)
  • At the same time that he refused the colonel's demand he made up his mind that he must have recourse to artifice when leaving Orel, to induce the Italian officer to accept some money of which he was evidently in need.†   (source)
  • She had recourse to this relief from time to time; and at each effort she found her spirit firmer, her mind more tranquil, and her resignation more confirmed.†   (source)
  • "Marfa Petrovna is dead, have you heard?" she began having recourse to her leading item of conversation.†   (source)
  • He must be made a partner, brother Ned; and if he won't submit to it peaceably, we must have recourse to violence.'†   (source)
  • Ah! you will find many prejudices to combat, Monsieur Bovary, much obstinacy of routine, with which all the efforts of your science will daily come into collision; for people still have recourse to novenas, to relics, to the priest, rather than come straight to the doctor or the chemist.†   (source)
  • To satisfy these new cravings of human vanity the arts have recourse to every species of imposture: and these devices sometimes go so far as to defeat their own purpose.†   (source)
  • Our higher officials are fond as a rule of nonplussing their subordinates; the methods to which they have recourse to attain that end are rather various.†   (source)
  • Deerslayer immediately had recourse to the glass, by the aid of which he perceived that two warriors were on it, though they appeared to be unarmed.†   (source)
  • It was evident, from Mr. Trotter's flushed countenance and defective intonation, that he, too, had had recourse to vinous stimulus.†   (source)
  • Interrupting the dialogue by this abrupt transition, the scout had instant recourse to the fragments of food which had escaped the voracity of the Hurons.†   (source)
  • So he had recourse to the usual means of gaining time for such cases made and provided; he said "ahem," and coughed several times, took out his pocket-handkerchief, and began to wipe his glasses.†   (source)
  • After getting beyond the assistance of verbal directions, the anxious husband had recourse to the usual signs of a trail, in order to follow the fugitives.†   (source)
  • He next had recourse to the administration of potent restoratives, such as screwing the patient's thumbs, smiting her hands, abundantly watering her face, and inserting salt in her mouth.†   (source)
  • The necessity of the conception of power as an explanation of historical events is best demonstrated by the universal historians and historians of culture themselves, for they professedly reject that conception but inevitably have recourse to it at every step.†   (source)
  • On my part, I wish to inform you, that if the above-mentioned nose is not restored to-day to its proper place, I shall be obliged to have recourse to legal procedure.†   (source)
  • Seeing that his accusation of Sonia had completely failed, he had recourse to insolence: "Allow me, gentlemen, allow me!†   (source)
  • *f The Government of the Union, in order to conceal its defeat, had recourse to an expedient which is very much in vogue with feeble governments.†   (source)
  • Charles, at his wit's end, soon had recourse to the eternal Lheureux, who swore he would arrange matters if the doctor would sign him two bills, one of which was for seven hundred francs, payable in three months.†   (source)
  • For people toward whom he had but to put forth his hand, his Eminence had rarely recourse to such means.†   (source)
  • Duncan, who knew that silence was a virtue among his hosts, gladly had recourse to the custom, in order to arrange his ideas.†   (source)
  • He knew what makes a soldier, and judging by the appearance and the talk of those persons, by the swagger with which they had recourse to the bottle on the journey, he considered them poor soldiers.†   (source)
  • It is patient, insinuating, flexible, and never has recourse to extreme measures until obliged by the most absolute necessity.†   (source)
  • It was in this stage of the correspondence that her mother had recourse to the plan of copying her own epistles.†   (source)
  • They were obliged to have recourse to a detour in order to get the cover of the bushes, and to follow the curvature of the beach.†   (source)
  • Jean Valjean directed upon her that heartrending smile to which he occasionally had recourse: "You wished to be Madame.†   (source)
  • Supposing this person, wearied at the inefficacy of the poison, should, as Monte Cristo intimated, have recourse to steel!†   (source)
  • In the opposite case I shall be compelled to have recourse to very serious measures and then…. you must blame yourself.†   (source)
  • Under the same circumstances which formerly compelled a prince to put on a new tax, he now has recourse to a loan.†   (source)
  • It was, perhaps, owing to this circumstance, in addition to the necessity of keeping every hand employed at the paddles, that the Hurons had not immediate recourse to their firearms.†   (source)
  • But it is not easy to conceive how a people can sustain a great maritime war without having recourse to one or the other of these two systems.†   (source)
  • Once in a previous year he had gone to look at the mowing, and being made very angry by the bailiff he had recourse to his favorite means for regaining his temper,— he took a scythe from a peasant and began mowing.†   (source)
  • The consequence is that when I saw our laborers, which did not at all suit two such delicate stomachs as ours, I had recourse to a little of my old trade.†   (source)
  • The first time he had recourse to his new judge was when a French prisoner, a colonel, came to him and, after talking a great deal about his exploits, concluded by making what amounted to a demand that Pierre should give him four thousand francs to send to his wife and children.†   (source)
  • —THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP "Moreover, the friend to whom I have recourse is the doing of my duty; and I need but one pardon, that of my conscience."†   (source)
  • Recourse must be had to some other cause; and what other cause can there be except the manners of the people?†   (source)
  • In conformity with this scheme, the Sumach had been secretly advised to advance into the circle, and to make her appeal to the prisoner's sense of justice, before the band had recourse to the last experiment.†   (source)
  • He was incessantly attacked by them, and the superior, to whom he had confided this misfortune, wishing as much as in him lay to free him from them, had advised him, in order to conjure away the tempting demon, to have recourse to the bell rope, and ring with all his might.†   (source)
  • I readily admit that recourse cannot be had to the same means at the present time: but I discover certain democratic expedients which may be substituted for them.†   (source)
  • 'Excuse me; but as a geologist, you would sooner have recourse to a book, to a special work on the subject, and not to a drawing.'†   (source)
  • King of France, who was formidable still in spite of his recent reverses; and it was necessary, therefore, to have recourse to some profitable scheme, which was a matter of great difficulty in the impoverished condition of exhausted Italy.†   (source)
  • …movements from the west to the east and from the east to the west form the essence and purpose of these events, and not only shall we have no need to see exceptional ability and genius in Napoleon and Alexander, but we shall be unable to consider them to be anything but like other men, and we shall not be obliged to have recourse to chance for an explanation of those small events which made these people what they were, but it will be clear that all those small events were inevitable.†   (source)
  • I can conceive that a regular government may have recourse to the former, but I do not concede that any government has the right of enacting the latter.†   (source)
  • "What is it you want, dear grandpapa?" said Valentine, and she endeavored to recall to mind all the things which he would be likely to need; and as the ideas presented themselves to her mind, she repeated them aloud, then,—finding that all her efforts elicited nothing but a constant "No,"—she said, "Come, since this plan does not answer, I will have recourse to another."†   (source)
  • It is true, the French used the same argument, a circumstance, as Hurry took occasion to observe in answer to one of Deerslayer's objections, that proved its truth, as mortal enemies would not be likely to have recourse to the same reason unless it were a good one.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • To prove this assertion I shall not have recourse to any remote occurrences, but to circumstances which I have myself witnessed, and which belong to our own time.†   (source)
  • In this manner he came up to Montparnasse without being seen or heard, gently insinuated his hand into the back pocket of that frock-coat of fine black cloth, seized the purse, withdrew his hand, and having recourse once more to his crawling, he slipped away like an adder through the shadows.†   (source)
  • When a people begins to reflect upon its situation, it discovers a multitude of wants to which it had not before been subject, and to satisfy these exigencies recourse must be had to the coffers of the State.†   (source)
  • Deerslayer, on the other hand, manifested a very different temper, proving by the moderation of his language, the fairness of his views, and the simplicity of his distinctions, that he possessed every disposition to hear reason, a strong, innate desire to do justice, and an ingenuousness that was singularly indisposed to have recourse to sophism to maintain an argument; or to defend a prejudice.†   (source)
  • If they have sometimes recourse to learned etymologies, vanity will induce them to search at the roots of the dead languages; but erudition does not naturally furnish them with its resources.†   (source)
  • If they have not the greater number of voters on their side, they assert that the true majority abstained from voting; and if they are foiled even there, they have recourse to the body of those persons who had no votes to give.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • The remarkable improvements which have taken place in agriculture and manufactures within the same period do not suffice in my opinion to explain this fact; recourse must be had to another cause more powerful and more concealed.†   (source)
  • Then, he had a proposition to make; the object of his visit; and, if this were accepted, the war would at once terminate between the parties; and it was improbable that the Hurons would anticipate the failure of a project on which their chiefs had apparently set their hearts, by having recourse to violence previously to the return of their messenger.†   (source)
  • In this case it was necessary to have recourse to one of three measures; either to appoint new electors, or to consult a second time those already appointed, or to defer the election to another authority.†   (source)
  • No doubt this great regularity of American morals originates partly in the country, in the race of the people, and in their religion: but all these causes, which operate elsewhere, do not suffice to account for it; recourse must be had to some special reason.†   (source)
  • Thus the citizens of the Union are first consulted as members of one and the same community; and, if they cannot agree, recourse is had to the division of the States, each of which has a separate and independent vote.†   (source)
  • If the human mind were to attempt to examine and pass a judgment on all the individual cases before it, the immensity of detail would soon lead it astray and bewilder its discernment: in this strait, man has recourse to an imperfect but necessary expedient, which at once assists and demonstrates his weakness.†   (source)
  • I believe that there are such things as justifiable resistance and legitimate rebellion: I do not therefore assert, as an absolute proposition, that the men of democratic ages ought never to make revolutions; but I think that they have especial reason to hesitate before they embark in them, and that it is far better to endure many grievances in their present condition than to have recourse to so perilous a remedy.†   (source)
  • The Americans of the South of the United States will therefore be obliged, for a long time to come, to have recourse to strangers to export their produce, and to supply them with the commodities which are requisite to satisfy their wants.†   (source)
  • Having acquired new tastes, without the arts by which they could be gratified, the Indians were obliged to have recourse to the workmanship of the whites; but in return for their productions the savage had nothing to offer except the rich furs which still abounded in his woods.†   (source)
  • As precedents have there but little weight-as there are no longer any privileges attached to certain property, nor any rights inherent in certain bodies or in certain individuals, the mind must have recourse to general truths derived from human nature to resolve the particular question under discussion.†   (source)
  • ] If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed, that event may be attributed to the unlimited authority of the majority, which may at some future time urge the minorities to desperation, and oblige them to have recourse to physical force.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, as all peoples are obliged to have recourse to certain grammatical forms, which are the foundation of human language, in order to express their thoughts; so all communities are obliged to secure their existence by submitting to a certain dose of authority, without which they fall a prey to anarchy.†   (source)
  • In all the confederations which had been formed before the American Union the Federal Government demanded its supplies at the hands of the separate Governments; and if the measure it prescribed was onerous to any one of those bodies means were found to evade its claims: if the State was powerful, it had recourse to arms; if it was weak, it connived at the resistance which the law of the Union, its sovereign, met with, and resorted to inaction under the plea of inability.†   (source)
  • …to depict is most distinctly to be met with in England: there laws are esteemed not so much because they are good as because they are old; and if it be necessary to modify them in any respect, or to adapt them the changes which time operates in society, recourse is had to the most inconceivable contrivances in order to uphold the traditionary fabric, and to maintain that nothing has been done which does not square with the intentions and complete the labors of former generations.†   (source)
  • …open war must be very near its ruin, for one of two alternatives would then probably occur: if its authority was small and its character temperate, it would not resort to violence till the last extremity, and it would connive at a number of partial acts of insubordination, in which case the State would gradually fall into anarchy; if it was enterprising and powerful, it would perpetually have recourse to its physical strength, and would speedily degenerate into a military despotism.†   (source)
  • I conclude, therefore, without having recourse to inaccurate computations, and without hazarding a comparison which might prove incorrect, that the democratic government of the Americans is not a cheap government, as is sometimes asserted; and I have no hesitation in predicting that, if the people of the United States is ever involved in serious difficulties, its taxation will speedily be increased to the rate of that which prevails in the greater part of the aristocracies and the…†   (source)
  • I am convinced that in fifty years it will be more difficult to collect authentic documents concerning the social condition of the Americans at the present day than it is to find remains of the administration of France during the Middle Ages; and if the United States were ever invaded by barbarians, it would be necessary to have recourse to the history of other nations in order to learn anything of the people which now inhabits them.†   (source)
  • But if the legislature is certain of overpowering all resistance by persevering in its plans, I reply, that in the constitutions of all nations, of whatever kind they may be, a certain point exists at which the legislator is obliged to have recourse to the good sense and the virtue of his fellow-citizens.†   (source)
  • Besides this, the country is not pillaged by your officials; the subjects are satisfied by prompt recourse to the prince; thus, wishing to be good, they have more cause to love him, and wishing to be otherwise, to fear him.†   (source)
  • OF MONARCHY AND HEREDITARY SUCCESSION Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance; the distinctions of rich, and poor, may in a great measure be accounted for, and that without having recourse to the harsh, ill-sounding names of oppression and avarice.†   (source)
  • How are your various dresses to be remembered, and the particular state of your complexion, and curl of your hair to be described in all their diversities, without having constant recourse to a journal?†   (source)
  • Thorpe then said something in the loud, incoherent way to which he had often recourse, about its being a d—thing to be miserly; and that if people who rolled in money could not afford things, he did not know who could, which Catherine did not even endeavour to understand.†   (source)
  • You must know there are two ways of contesting,(*) the one by the law, the other by force; the first method is proper to men, the second to beasts; but because the first is frequently not sufficient, it is necessary to have recourse to the second.†   (source)
  • Having restored his authority, not to leave it at risk by trusting either to the French or other outside forces, he had recourse to his wiles, and he knew so well how to conceal his mind that, by the mediation of Signor Pagolo—whom the duke did not fail to secure with all kinds of attention, giving him money, apparel, and horses—the Orsini were reconciled, so that their simplicity brought them into his power at Sinigalia.†   (source)
  • I was hardly the first person to have recourse to the sortes Virgilianae in time of confusion or trouble.†   (source)
  • In calculating the addenda of bills she frequently had recourse to digital aid.†   (source)
  • …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…†   (source)
  • The seeming anger of the Heavens made me have recourse to my Bible.†   (source)
  • For to what pow'r can Turnus have recourse, Or how resist his fate's prevailing force?†   (source)
  • Ay, but the doors be lock'd and keys kept safe, That no man hath recourse to her by night.†   (source)
  • In the modern system of war, nations the most wealthy are obliged to have recourse to large loans.†   (source)
  • None, I protest: but I'll give you a pottle of burnt sack to give me recourse to him, and tell him my name is Brook, only for a jest.†   (source)
  • I will not tarry you, for it is prime, And for it is no fruit, but loss of time; Unto my purpose* I will have recourse.†   (source)
  • We find in History that the Amazons Contracted with the Men of the neighbouring Countries, to whom they had recourse for issue, that the issue Male should be sent back, but the Female remain with themselves: so that the dominion of the Females was in the Mother.†   (source)
  • No sooner, therefore, had this symptom appeared, than he had immediate recourse to the said remedy, which though, as it is usual in all very efficacious medicines, it at first seemed to heighten and inflame the disease, soon produced a total calm, and restored the patient to perfect ease and tranquillity.†   (source)
  • ] Now will I in, to take some privy order To draw the brats of Clarence out of sight; And to give order that no manner person Have any time recourse unto the princes.†   (source)
  • I had no recourse, no friend, no confidante but my old governess, and I knew no remedy but to put my life in her hands, and so I did, for I let her know where to send to me, and had several letters from her while I stayed here.†   (source)
  • Another may be sick too, and sick to death, and this affliction may lie in his bowels, as gold in a mine, and be of no use to him; but this bell that tells me of his affliction, digs out, and applies that gold to me: if by this consideration of another's danger, I take mine own into contemplation, and so secure myself, by making my recourse to my God, who is our only security.†   (source)
  • It's the last resort of the aging flirt, So peeved at having no man at her skirt That, alone and abandoned to solitude, Her only recourse is to become a prude.†   (source)
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