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Example sentences for "resource"

Lexicographically close words:
resound; resounded; resounding; resoundingly; resounds; resourceful; resourcefulness; resourceless; resources; respeck
  1. He has found in the suppression of a great number of places a resource for continuing the war without increasing his expenses.

  2. The day had come when this was the only resource henceforth remaining to the Americans.

  3. Your shiftings, your weaknesses, your inconsistencies no longer leave you the resource of absolute power.

  4. Of this resource the Romans then for the first time availed themselves; having a number of them which had been taken in the Punic war.

  5. May your Excellency with great prudence provide what is most necessary for his Majesty's service, since we have no resource other than the favor your Excellency shall order to be extended to us.

  6. If the murderers were private persons only, three or four of the most guilty were put to death, without any resource in mercy; and the rest, with their children, became slaves.

  7. The pecuniary embarrassments in which he constantly found himself involved, drove him to the resource of gaining a livelihood by casting nativities.

  8. An annex becomes a departmental plan only when an agency represents the sole resource for meeting the stated need and when satisfying that need is the only task assigned to that agency by the basic plan.

  9. This is a manifestation of a more general problem of minimal agency resource allocation to emergency preparedness.

  10. It was evident that if either of the two competitors submitted to the arbitration of Edward, the other had no resource but to follow his example, since the power of the English king would otherwise certainly turn the scale.

  11. Edmund's children were very young, and their claims were not to be entertained when it was of the utmost importance to have a man of courage and resource at the head of affairs.

  12. She had now no other resource but to shut herself up in her own apartment, and to see nobody.

  13. No resource was left the English king but time and famine; none was left the garrison but the hope of wearying their foes or of relief by their king.

  14. Surrender appeared the only resource of the English.

  15. In this way they captured a vessel full of coconuts, which was a great resource to them in the way of food.

  16. Thibeaudeau then relates the ineffectual efforts he made to bring the foetus into a favorable position, and he at length found that his only resource to save the mother was, to cut in pieces the calf, which was now dead.

  17. It was his surest resource during the first years of toil and hardship.

  18. That is the only resource which I can see for you.

  19. Courage is the only resource of a human being who has fallen into this last abyss of unhappiness.

  20. He has nothing to support himself against me, and has absolutely no resource if I abandon him.

  21. I'm only telling you about it because you're Starmen, and it will be a resource you'll need to become familiar with.

  22. What he called his "office" was really a combination laboratory, resource library, work and communications center, and lounge.

  23. I've been around the asteroids a lot and I've learned to depend on a Resource outside myself whatever the circumstances.

  24. Besides, you would not advertise as Cayley & Hubbard, which might remind her of one resource open to her, and you would not advertise as my brother, which would frighten her away.

  25. I have not even the resource of blaming destiny," he continued.

  26. You will understand, madam," he said, "that professionally I have no resource but to return to England with your message.

  27. A Series of books describing the Adventures, Bravery, and Resource of Soldiers, Sailors, and others in all Parts of the World.

  28. Besides the use of this particular material every resource in the way of ingenuity and skill on the part of the designers is bent towards saving weight.

  29. These discussions were adjourned to London, where delegates of the different parties employed every resource of intrigue at the English court.

  30. Of these methods, that of Difference is more particularly a method of artificial experiment; while that of Agreement is more especially the resource employed where experimentation is impossible.

  31. But a similar resource does not exist in the generality of cases; and new objects are continually presenting themselves to men, women, and children, which they are called upon to class proprio motu.

  32. Nature is better, no doubt, but Nature cannot be exactly reproduced on canvas or in print; and the artist's only resource is to substitute something that may stand instead of and suggest the truth.

  33. My only, my great resource was prayer--great and supporting it was.

  34. Our only resource was, however, to put as bold a face on the matter as we could.

  35. It is the resource of cheaters, knaves, and cozeners," said Sampson.

  36. But this correspondent was dead when he arrived in India, and he had no other resource than to offer himself as a clerk to a counting-house.

  37. As a last resource he ran in among them, leading or rather dragging the two girls.

  38. Mark's surprise at this abrupt termination of the interview was great, but as Rafaravavy retired hastily, he had no resource but to follow his friend.

  39. His only resource lay in thrashing me off his premises--as you have seen.

  40. Ladies are, I think, very fortunate in having a resource in work at a time when the mind rejects intellectual amusement.

  41. His only resource is to give money to the beggars of Rome, who for one 'bajocco' will pray for him.

  42. The clergy, on the other hand, employing a resource with which their profession has always been familiar, represented Cromwell as opposing Providence, because he was opposing them.

  43. There was hardly any kind of resource which these men disdained.

  44. For, he has a peculiar resource which supplies him with general principles, from which he can argue; and the possession of this resource forms the fundamental difference between him and the man of science.

  45. Suspension of judgment is in all other cases the resource of the judicious inquirer; provided the testimony in favour of the anomaly presents, when well sifted, no suspicious circumstances.

  46. Under this impossibility of studying the laws of the formation of character by experiments purposely contrived to elucidate them, there remains the resource of simple observation.

  47. They, therefore, resolved as a final resource to take up their position in the most inaccessible part of the country.

  48. His imperturbable equanimity, and ever daring hope, had sustained me in moments of perplexity and alarm when no other resource could have availed.

  49. The principle of the amendment proposed by Mr. Mitchel involved a preparation for and an appeal to arms as the only resource available to the country.


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