Sentences with phrase «source of last resort»

For those of us who have found the Harvard's Library's comparative law collections to be invaluable when doing research in Cambridge, the Bulletin's article has a vaguely worrying comment that Harvard might not in the future be the source of last resort:

But while poor countries should get priority when it comes to selling fossil fuels, when it comes to using them, they should be viewed as an energy source of last resort, after alternatives have been seriously explored.

I agree it is a funding source of last resort.

Not exact matches

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..

«When the stars are gone, black holes will be a last - resort source of energy,» says Krauss.

In a depressed Northern town where loan sharks are the only viable source of funding for cash - strapped entrepreneurs, market stall holders Bex (Victoria Smurfit) and Dawn (Joanne Mitchell, Blunt's real - life wife and the film's producer) fall prey to the last resort to finance their achingly modest dream of a tea and cake shop.

The discount window, while providing last resort funding for situations that have some prospect of containment, is not intended to be the final funding source for financial institutions that have absolutely no hope of survival due to a complete collapse in confidence.

If I'm in my late 60's, I would rather make lifestyle changes than reduce my source of future income, except as a last resort.

While personal loans can be a help for your student debt, they really should be a last resort compared to other sources of funds.

We SHOULD have made clean alternatives the dominant sources of energy and used the dirty forms, but only as a last resort.

Stage 0 encourages the parties to view the court process as a last resort and provides free sources of legal advice and information, while stage 0.5 involves a short exchange between the parties to ascertain whether there is actually a legal dispute.

The fund is a remedy of last resort for clients who can not be repaid from other sources, such as from insurance or from the attorney involved.

Ruling that «regulation of speech must be a last resort,» U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria said the state should have tried less invasive options, like beefing up existing discrimination rules, rather than «censor a source of truthful information.»

- A related point is that a Norwich Pharmacal order is a remedy of last resort and an order will only be made where the third party is the only practicable source of information.