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Example sentences for "having recourse"

  • Then why does not the Italian, or Spaniard, or Affghan use his fists when insulted or outraged, instead of having recourse to the weapons which he has recourse to?

  • Surely he was better employed in plying the trades of tinker and smith than in having recourse to vice, in running after milk-maids, for example.

  • Thus we have seen, that from the necessity of having recourse successively to land of a worse and worse quality, in order to feed an increasing population, corn must rise in relative value to other things.

  • Having recourse to that wisdom which arises from a study of the scriptures, thou seekest verily to eat me up today.

  • By having recourse to such understanding one should always preserve one's life.

  • The king who fills his treasury by having recourse to fraudulent devices, certainly falls away from righteousness.

  • Kings extinguish animosities by having recourse to conciliation but, when the opportunity comes, break their foes into pieces like earthen jars full of water dashed upon stone.

  • Then he represented the necessity of having recourse to a regular army in case of invasion; and, after all, acknowledged that the number proposed was no way sufficient for that purpose.

  • And when none dared to cross it, I, having recourse to my father, crossed the great ocean which is a hundred Yojanas in width.

  • And with the object of raising offspring, he observed rigid vows and began to live upon frugal fare, having recourse to the Brahmacharya mode of life, and restraining his senses.

  • Yudhishthira said, 'Having recourse to such high intelligence, undisturbed by passion, I will do as thou counsellest!

  • And, O mighty-armed one, slay thy foes, having recourse to stratagem.

  • Finding his arrows cut by Pradyumna, the lord of Saubha, having recourse to the dreadful illusion natural to Asuras began to pour a thick shower of arrows.

  • Surely he was better employed in plying the trades of tinker and smith than in having recourse to vice, in running after milk-maids for example.

  • We need to pray to God, not in order to make known to Him our needs or desires but that we ourselves may be reminded of the necessity of having recourse to God's help in these matters.

  • This again happens in two ways: first by having recourse to fraud in making the accusation.

  • Finding his arrows cut by Pradyumna, the lord of Saubha, having recourse to the dreadful illusion natural to Asuras began to pour a thick shower of arrows.

  • Now, we are assured by His infallible word that it is by having recourse to His consecrated ministers that our sins will be forgiven us.

  • That cat sees more enemies than friends among the passers-by--the boy whose soul delights in persecuting a strange cat, and the young man with that most insolent and aggressive little beast a fox-terrier at his heels.

  • Her face had all at once grown white, and starting to her feet, she stood facing him.

  • He was more to her, far more, she thought, than she could ever be to him.

  • This diversity of opinion was not very gratifying to Senor Anda, and although the troops were in his favour, he was by no means desirous of having recourse to violence.

  • But the necessity of having recourse to unpublished documents became more urgent when I approached (as I do in the Twelfth Book) the history of the Reformation in France.

  • Finally, Pasteur came to the conclusion that the only infallible method of procuring healthy eggs must be by having recourse to moths free from corpuscles.

  • After some fruitless trials, the thought occurred to Pasteur of having recourse to heat.

  • As regards hereditary flacherie, or, to speak more correctly, that which develops itself easily on any diminution of vigour in the eggs and in the embryo, Pasteur again found a remedy by having recourse to the microscope.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "having recourse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ceremonial purity; different temperatures; domestic architecture; drawing room; ever met; having been; having come; having finished; having found; having great; having killed; having listened; having little; having many; having nothing; having once; having recourse; having reference; having sent; having slain; having something; having spent; having taken; heap better; house full; well together