Sentences with phrase «weapon of last resort»

They've also given you an unbreakable knife as a weapon of last resort; no more kicking the undead to death like you're in some macabre chorus line.

As promised though, they are tricky to use and are very much meant as a weapon of last resort.

Delaying powers over government fiscal measures that have been voted for by the Commons are a more appropriate weapon of last resort than the wrecking ball.

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

Not exact matches

As Western resolve to «do something» over the use of chemical weapons in Syria hardens, military intervention has emerged as the last resort.

It was the first such game to serve up proper 3D, or at least to do so in a smooth, playable way; it standardised the FPS weapon set of pistol, shotgun, machine gun, energy, rocket launcher and totally - insane - last - resort weapon; it made blood and gore key parts of the FPS experience; it birthed the idea of varied baddies who needed to be taken down in different ways and possibly with different weapons; it basically set the tone for everything that followed for years after.

You've probably heard the lunatic proposition floating around the web that the last resort option in stopping the oil gushing out of the the sunken Deepwater Horizon is to deploy some variety of nuclear weapon to blast

If an administration that has claimed the goal of a nuclear weapons free world refuses to commit to a last resort nuclear deflection strategy [as opposed to first resort], it portends poorly for the policy.

Understandably, the standard is considerably higher in respect of nuclear weapons, requiring the situation to be of the last resort kind, i.e. warranting the whole range of defensive options to be on the table.