Sentences with phrase «is a last resort in»

Child sacrifice may have been a last resort in the hopes that the gesture would improve the weather by appeasing the gods.

Grand coalitions tend to be the last resort in desperate times.

Leader of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, on Tuesday stressed that retaliation would be the last resort in the efforts being made by the Federal...

Doxycycline is the least likely to cause teeth and bone abnormalities, but it should be a last resort in developing puppies.

Before anyone intervenes in a physical confrontation between two cats, it's important to realize that fighting is a last resort in feline circles and the cats involved will be in a high state of emotional arousal.

We wanted to challenge the idea that creative spaces were the last resort in terms of a building's use.

If geo - engineering is the last resort in a worst - case scenario, let us do all we can to avoid that scenario.

My law practice is founded on the core principle that litigation should be a last resort in any dispute.

Trial separation is a last resort in determining whether or not you and your spouse wish to remain married.

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In general, online lenders should be 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.

«SBA loans have gone from being the lender of last resort to the lender of only resort for many small businesses in this country,» says Beth Solomon, the president and CEO of the National Association of Development Companies, the trade association for organizations providing financing through the SBA's 504 loan program.

«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.

That's why there's no better investment you could possibly make in your career or your future than being the first stop when someone's looking for help, versus the last resort.

«The authorities are in a position to prevent systemic defaults,» said Fitch, including using the last resort of bailing out the LGFVs using fiscal resources.

In Quintana Roo, a state in Mexico's southeast home to the resort areas of Cancun and Playa del Carmen, the 134 homicides registered so far this year are nearly equal to the 165 seen all last year, according to government crime datIn Quintana Roo, a state in Mexico's southeast home to the resort areas of Cancun and Playa del Carmen, the 134 homicides registered so far this year are nearly equal to the 165 seen all last year, according to government crime datin Mexico's southeast home to the resort areas of Cancun and Playa del Carmen, the 134 homicides registered so far this year are nearly equal to the 165 seen all last year, according to government crime data.

Both the public and Disney employees have been on increased alert regarding alligators since the death of 2 - year - old Lane Graves, who was snatched by an alligator last month while playing in a lake at a Disney resort.

The resort, which is known for going all out in the holiday treats department (you might recall the bevy of spooky treats, including the fantastically creepy Oogie Boogie popcorn, Disneyland released last month), is unveiling its Christmas treat line - up to make all of your holiday wishes come true.

The last resort, according to Akalp, is to «send an invoice for the balance due and ask them to check back in once they're ready to re-engage.»

If you're in need of cash — fast — make sure a payday loan really is your last resort.

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.»

A climbdown from Ms Lagarde's office is even less likely after the Leftist Syriza government crossed the rubicon and became the first developed country in the IMF's 71 - year - history to default on the world's «lender of last resort» this week.

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..

The tactic, which in effect has turned the central bank into the lender of last resort from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, is deeply unpopular here in Germany, the Continent's economic engine.

The Treasury is taking responsibility for making bad lenders and bad investors whole, but leaving bad debts and even Negative Equity on the books and even putting the government in the position of «debt collector of last resort.»

Paying 100 % in cash is a last resort because of the sub 3 % financing I'm being offered.

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...

Our last travel column was on my Top 10 ski resorts in America.

I actually think something else is going on here — rather than talking about regulating the financial sector, the government and the Bank are signaling that they are willing to provide lender - of - last - resort assurances to those who sell or engage in derivative financial products, of which the asset - back mortgage and commercial debt are but two examples.

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

Increasingly, oil producers are resorting to trains to move their product, with derailments and fires like those that occurred last year in Lac - Mégantic and in April in Lynchburg, Virginia, the unfortunate consequences.

Again, because of the expense involved in taking out a short - term payday loan, it's really only a last - resort option.

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?»

Back in Rome, Vatican officials are urging caution and citing the «last resort» criterion of the just war tradition.

Is there any case in which murder would be a last resort?

There are instances where a mother's life is in danger and abortion is the last resort.

It is strange to note that in the last resort the king of Israel, of all those involved, shows the least faith and the least obedience to the will of God.

What I must do, when I have taken part with all my energies in the consecration which causes its flames to leap forth, is to consent to the communion which will enable it to find in me the food it has come in the last resort to seek.

If the Fire has come down into the heart of the world it is, in the last resort, to lay hold on me and to absorb me.

Nevertheless, it seems to us that the text has many aspects which are often neglected and that in the last resort it forces us to raise more questions than it helps us to answer.

But we have to admit that if in the last resort Naaman is swayed by this simple reasoning, it is because the argument is on his own level.

But in the last resort we are the ones who are praying, not somebody else.

In the last resort there must somehow be but one single energy active in the worlIn the last resort there must somehow be but one single energy active in the worlin the world.

The development in our souls of supernatural life (based on the natural spiritualization of the world through the efforts of mankind): this in the last resort is the field where the operative power of faith is positively and without any known limits exercized.

But in the last resort there are still many other sick people.

Facts are a first and last resort in a court of law, but when it comes to human relationships, let us first stop and feel before we go to facts.The communication pyramid offers a revolutionary paradigm in our journey to understanding.

But is it really true that in the last resort the New Testament means by faith the natural disposition of man?

Therefore it can never be justified in a Christian life, because it would be justified only by being really 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...».