Sentences with phrase «being a last resort as»

We talk about charity being a last resort as if the provision of income, health and education from the state should be the norm.

I thought about a coconut butter - oil blend but I think that's a last resort as I wanted to continue with the challenge of making them oil / margarine - free.

Suspension should be a last resort as it allows many students to fall behind in schools, she said.

Furthermore, Flanagan appears not to understand that what is being asked from the legislators in Albany is the last resort as well as being «unique».

Surgery should be the last resort as it can make things worse (I have seen this before).

We stress VERY STRONGLY that this should be a LAST RESORT as capacity may be extremely liimited.

«In my opinion [declawing] should be a last resort as it is a painful procedure for the cat,» Gardsbane says.

However, this should be a last resort as the transfer rates from these cards are horrible.

Taking the wrongdoer or an insurance company to court would be a last resort as this can be very costly and time consuming.

Be aware that litigation ought to be a last resort as it can be a very costly and lengthy process.

Not exact matches

As a last resort, a handwritten note or email will suffice if the apology is specific and direct.

Tapping retirement accounts should be a last resort, as you'll owe tax and penalties and reduce possible market gains.

He's now weighing all options and would even consider a sale, though only as a last resort.

I accept that military action, under international law and as a genuine last resort, is in some circumstances necessary.

So, this was a meeting of last resort, as the engineering director was making one last appeal to the CFO to keep his team in town.

Monetary policy was the last thing Bernanke listed, as a weapon of last resort.

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«What you often see is privacy used as a last resort when none of your arguments are working,» says Mark Hayes, a privacy lawyer in Toronto.

Gross margins for the third quarter fell to 47.5 percent from 48.8 percent last year, as it had to resort to increased promotions to sell products that would usually have been sold at Sports Authority.

«Is this something that is held out to the inmate culture as tools that we will use as a last resorIs this something that is held out to the inmate culture as tools that we will use as a last resoris held out to the inmate culture as tools that we will use as a last resort?

«This is not an outcome anyone wanted, and police were only asked to be involved as a last resort,» Inspector Tracy Phillips said.

Accordingly, the rejection of labor contracts «has not been the mechanism of last resort to save a failing business,» the Air Line Pilots Association told Congress in 2010, «but instead has often been used by employers as a business model to gain long - term economic advantage by unfairly gutting the wages and working conditions of airline and other employees.»

One possible source of the equity premium (meaning shares are more expensive to issue than bonds) is a central bank as lender of last resort - even in the absence of taxes, bankruptcy, etc..

I have been talking about BC leaving Canada for a while now as a last resort.

Proxy resolutions (or shareholder proposals) are generally used as a last resort when investor concerns aren't adequately addressed by management.

We're not sure what's in the water in Pennsylvania, but after one school district in the Keystone State distributed buckets of rocks around school to pelt shooters as a last resort, and another handed out tiny baseball bats to thwart would - be attackers, we asked readers what you thought of these...

These measures, which would be considered only once other measures have been exhausted, are sometimes referred to as «market - making of last resort».

This is what made Google's low - key announcement of its latest plans for messaging on Android phones — an exclusive with The Verge about what it calls Chat — so striking: the company is introducing an open alternative to products like iMessage and WhatsApp, but only as a last resort, and the effort is being pilloried by critics to boot; Walt Mossberg was representative:

Google has made a point to tell website owners that the disavow tool should only be used as a last resort and isn't a magic fix to having a bad link portfolio.

As I said last month at this time — along with a couple of Wall Street investment houses, these are «da boyz» — the sellers of last resort — and you can call them what you like.

Perhaps you've heard that the FHA loan program is often used as a last resort for borrowers with bad credit.

However, it is also quite expensive and should be used as a last resort.

By the end of the 19th century, the Bank of England was well practised in acting as the lender of last resort.

Making early withdrawals for any reason «isn't ideal,» says Weckbach, and should be viewed more as a last resort due to the damage they can inflict upon a retirement nest egg.

They print money, they control inflation, they are known as the «lender of last resort».

But, as Weigel has asked, «Can we not say that last resort has been satisfied in those cases when a rogue state has made plain, by its conduct, that it holds international law in contempt and that no diplomatic solution to the threat it poses is likely, and when it can be demonstrated that the threat the rogue state poses is intensifying?»

War is a ghastly and terrible business and should only be undertaken as a last resort.»

I asked if there was an instance where murder was used as a last resort.

Certainly, Pope Leo XIII's great encyclical, Rerum novarum, was pretty clear, at one point arguing that the government should come to the aid of families only as a last resort: «True, if a family finds itself in exceeding distress, utterly deprived of the counsel of friends, and without any prospect of extricating itself, it is right that extreme necessity be met by public aid...».

If a person is violent and / or adamantly refuses to accept help, it may be necessary for the family to call the police who will transport him to a public psychiatric ward (in a county hospital) or to a mental hospital for observation, This is the least desirable method of getting the person to treatment, but it sometimes becomes necessary as a last resort.

Who is ready to say that as the last of all resorts the Iranian nuclear effort must be destroyed by force before it comes to term?

I felt like God didn't care about me and even told him it was his fault that I had to turn to the sex industry as a last resort.

In it I said that I am convinced that the Resurrection, as something that really happened, is the one thing that assures us that in the last resort the world is not mad but sane.

We use prayer as a last resort because, in our heart of hearts, we fear that prayer is no real choice at all.

This notion was already present in Husserl in that he described intentionality as a «universal medium which in the last resort includes within itself all experiences, even those that are not characterized as intentional» (Ideas 226).

For here, the «presumption» tends to give higher priority to what were classically understood as important but secondary criteria, like «last resort» and «probable chance of success,» over the classic first - order criteria: competent authority, just cause, and right intention (about which, to repeat, we can have a greater degree of moral surety).

The use of violence as a last resort is justified.

When no cure is possible, the weak minded may turn to a god as a last resort for healing or just solace.

But that underscores my main point: that the contemporary use of the prudential criteria of last resort, proportionality, and reasonable hope of success treats them as if they were the main themes in the just war idea.

The mainstream of Christian ethics has contended that there can be a legitimate or «just» use of military force — legitimacy being determined by a variety of factors, such as the presence of a «just cause,» «right authority,» «last resort,» and the use of «means proportional to the end.»