Sentences with phrase «thing of last resort»

But there is a reason why, at law, eye witness testimony is the least reliable evidence available and nearly always is a thing of last resort.

Not exact matches

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

Sometimes the inventiveness of a human imagination suffices to procure possibility, but in the last resort, that is, when the point is to believe, the only help is this, that for God all things are possible.

Context: Last night I was shooting the breeze with my roommates when one of them brought up religion and how it was a «good thing to grow up with religion because it gives children something to believe in», when I countered that there are many different things children can believe in growing up without having to resort to something like religion, I basically had to sit there for 10 minutes about how atheism ruins lives because it makes everyone apathetic and despondent.

KRISTINA CHAMBERLAIN: Someone can a apply medication especially if that would be the last resort I mean the other thing is you have a little bit of control over with trial and error you know you try something, you see how it's working, if it's not doing what you wanted to do you stop or you know your body doesn't take too much of a ding from it but if you're doing medications then it takes longer for you to rebuild it.

And then the last thing I would do just in case you decide that during rails to resort race you want to try to really go hard as you're getting towards the end of it and those last three to five minutes.

Make the other aspects of your dating profile shine without resorting to dishonesty — the last thing you want is a potential match to be deterred by a half - truth or full - on lie.

As a last resort, he partners with a greedy co-worker to rob a casino and the two hijack a bus full of hostages and things go awry.»

And using punishment as a measure of last resort of the so when things go wrong or starting to wrong in the classroom, the teachers can intervene in very positive and reinforcing ways with the students.

There's one more thing we need to talk about, and I've put it at the bottom of this article because it's a last resort.

Gold: • Helps protect against inflation • Often goes up when stocks and other things go down • Serves as a last - resort store of wealth and method of exchange

If you have exhausted all of your options, and the shelter is truly the last resort, we want you to know a few things:

One last thing worth mentioning is a derivative of the resort's size, and insistence on being young and vibrant.

We will be lining up things across the city of Chicago as well as what's happening in Lincoln Park to encourage that kind of flow that we resorted to at the end of the day last year as we were trying to figure out how to make a diving catch there in the afternoon.

Koch began photographing for the Fundos series in 2001 while reading Paul Auster's dystopian novel, In the Country of Last Things, which tells the story of a collapsed society with no economy or industry, in which the population must resort to selling scavenged, nearly forgotten objects to survive.

Last would be things like global carbon markets, capture and storage, and as a last resort — different types of geoengineering, which not only are extremely expensive and have no benefits if AGW is not both real and catastropLast would be things like global carbon markets, capture and storage, and as a last resort — different types of geoengineering, which not only are extremely expensive and have no benefits if AGW is not both real and catastroplast resort — different types of geoengineering, which not only are extremely expensive and have no benefits if AGW is not both real and catastrophic.

As a last resort, if you can't find an overview, you might comb through the national communications of Annex I countries to the UN FCCC; they are also supposed to report on adaptation policies (and if those sections are no help, you might find things of interest in the sections on vulnerabilities, anyway).

The CCLA is arguing that Canada's use of solitary confinement of inmates in prisons violates s. 12 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and is inconsistent with the revised UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (known as the Nelson Mandela Rules), which, among other things, state that solitary confinement should not exceed 15 days and should «be used only in exceptional cases as a last resort, for as short a time as possible and subject to independent review...»

Whether travelers are stuffing Osprey backpacks for a bit of hosteling or packing Louis Vuitton suitcases for some five - star resorting, the last thing on their minds are the laws peculiar to where they are heading.

.2: - Orders contemplating non-consensual adoption — care orders with a plan for adoption, placement orders and adoption orders — are «a very extreme thing, a last resort», only to be made where «nothing else will do», where «no other course is possible in [the child's] interests», they are «the most extreme option», a «last resort — when all else fails» — Sir James Munby President of the family courts) in Re B: `

Orders contemplating non-consensual adoption — care orders with a plan for adoption, placement orders and adoption orders — are «a very extreme thing, a last resort», only to be made where «nothing else will do», where «no other course is possible in [the child's] interests», they are «the most extreme option», a «last resort — when all else fails» — Sir James Munby President of the family courts) in Re B:

In some cases, if you feel that reasoning to your child or explaining things to them is not working, you may also think of using manipulation as a last resort.

I believe in getting things out of the dryer quick and an iron is an absolute LAST resort.