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Example sentences for "resorting"

Lexicographically close words:
resorcin; resorption; resort; resorte; resorted; resorts; resoun; resound; resounded; resounding
  1. How far this operates I have, of course, no means of knowing; but here again one may deal with waste ground if it were judged requisite to do so, without resorting to any revolutionary schemes of general land nationalization.

  2. Living at the center of English social and political life, and resorting to the court of Edward III.

  3. Ten years after Mr. Calhoun was in his grave, the same doctrine, in almost the same form of expression, became familiar to the country as the Southern justification for resorting to civil war.

  4. He opposed the suggestion of resorting to foreign loans for any part of the money needed.

  5. And Ateius was blamed at the time for resorting to them, as the city itself, in whose cause he used them, would be the first to feel the ill effects of these curses and supernatural terrors.

  6. Do your utmost to obtain more lenient conditions of peace, to bring about a speedy conclusion of peace, and to alleviate the public distress by resorting to all adequate financial and economic measures.

  7. The streets contained shops and bazaars[7]; and on festive occasions, barbers and dressers were stationed at each of the gates, for the convenience of those resorting to the city.

  8. He maltreated strangers resorting to the island, and plundered their vessels, "so that the envoys from other lands, in passing to and fro, were much annoyed by him.

  9. But let no youths be prevented from resorting to whatever schools they please.

  10. Hitherto, indeed, many causes have prevented their resorting to the temples; and the dangers that everywhere impended, were a plea for concealing the most true opinions of the gods.

  11. Tarquin relinquishing his hopes of a restoration by stratagem, resolved on resorting to strategy, and brought into the field a large army, of which the Veii formed a considerable part, and his son Aruns headed the Etruscan cavalry.

  12. To some extent capitalism has given rise to a class of idle rich, living upon the proceeds of permanent investments, and resorting to extravagance and loose methods of living in order to occupy their time.

  13. Can the adequate taxation of corporations be secured without resorting to a corporation tax which shall be purely Federal in character?

  14. A burro being an ass, I was rather startled at the proposition, and assured her that I should infinitely prefer waiting a little longer before resorting to so desperate a measure.

  15. A surrender on his part of the powers with which the Constitution has invested his office would effect a practical alteration of that instrument without resorting to the prescribed process of amendment.

  16. Unlike what would have occurred in any other country, we were under no necessity of resorting to drafts or conscriptions.

  17. In this manner the whole form and character of the Government would be changed, not by an amendment of the Constitution, but by resorting to an unwarrantable and unauthorized construction of that instrument.

  18. It would secure the establishment of moderate fares, without resorting to competition, which it is now generally admitted would be as injurious to the public as to the companies.

  19. Inflammatory appeals to the public, representing us as resorting to compulsion, are placarded, among other places, on the boards for official notices at some of the churches.

  20. Any man who makes a final diagnosis in a serious case without resorting to some or all of these means is regarded--and justly--as careless and derelict in his duty to his patient.

  21. The measure of our success and of our control over disease has been, and is yet, in exact proportion to the extent to which we can relegate this resource to the background and avoid resorting to it.

  22. On their appearance they are strictly littoral-maritime, resorting to the larger bowlders and rocky shelves covered with seaweed, among which these birds industriously search for slugs and other marine worms.

  23. About Hudson's Bay it is met with in large flocks, resorting to the beach when the tide is low, and feeding on the crustacea it discovers there, retiring to the marshes as the tide rises.

  24. By this date they assemble in flocks, amounting at times, to thousands of individuals, resorting to the mud flats left bare by the receding tide.

  25. On the third reading I, without resorting to bribery, threats, or violence, will persuade the Diet to reject his bill.

  26. Their plot of the barricades having been forestalled and thwarted, the enemy are resorting to new manoeuvres.

  27. If her chief minister could maintain her in power only by resorting to trickery such as this, then, indeed, the day of her fall could not be far distant.

  28. Ultimately Paul obtained the desired furlough by resorting to his usual threat; he would sell his commission, buy a string of camels, and spend the rest of his life in trying to discover the sources of the Nile.

  29. Fort Venango, still farther south, on the Allegheny River, was captured by a band of Senecas, who gained entrance by resorting to the oft-employed treachery of pretending friendliness.

  30. One of the first benefits which he derived from his apparently untoward circumstances was the necessity of resorting to the power of love in the child's heart as the only source of obedience.

  31. Stomach, probably," said the doctor, resorting to a time-honoured subterfuge.

  32. He said this with such conviction that few had the heart to deny the justice of the claim outright, resorting to subterfuges to evade a cash settlement.

  33. Think how hard pressed she was, and forgive her for resorting to an excusable fiction.

  34. But without resorting to the extraordinary powers incident to a state of war, the same conclusion, in regard to the effect of a rebellion by a State Government, results from the relations which the States sustain to the Federal Government.

  35. This is a twice-married woman and has been enjoyed by others before me, there is, therefore, no objection to my resorting to her.

  36. Of the Causes of a Courtesan resorting to Men; of the means of Attaching to herself the Man desired, and the kind of Man that it is desirable to be acquainted with.

  37. But these four latter kinds of Nayikas do not differ much from the first four kinds of them, as there is no separate object in resorting to them.

  38. On the other hand, people who eat well, drink moderately; the satisfaction of the appetite dispensing with the necessity for resorting to stimulants.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "resorting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.