recourse English

Meaning recourse meaning

What does recourse mean?

recourse

— noun (= resort) act of turning to for assistance have recourse to the courts an appeal to his uncle was his last resort

— noun (= refuge) something or someone turned to for assistance or security his only recourse was the police took refuge in lying

Synonyms recourse synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as recourse?

recourse English » English

resort

refuge

way

resource

remedy

means

expedient

expedience

avenue

agency

shelter

recurrence

livelihood

way out

vent

use

support

sanctuary

safety

safeness

safekeeping

retreat

reference

recursivity

recurrency

protection

pharmaceutical

outlet

medicine

medicament

lee

indemnity

haven

drug

comeback

authority

auspices

asylum

approach

appeal

alternative

aegis

abode

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How do I use recourse in a sentence?

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If you'd ever seen a baby born without recourse to pain relief you'd be a bit more aware of the difference it can make, and you'd have stopped at nothing to get it there.

The defence has no other recourse than to produce Ensign Harding.

I suppose he had no other recourse, but even so, to bite off his tongue?

Father Abbott tried kindness, but in the end had to have recourse to bread and water, even to the whip.

Gilbert will recourse to me, I gave him leave to arrest this priest.

And it only leaves me one recourse.

They have no recourse but to surrender.

Facing this inhuman situation, the artist's only recourse is to raise his standards still higher.

You have recourse to do it.

In view of your recent actions, Harold. I find you have left me with no recourse. but to listen to the solution proposed by your uncle.

I never resist violence. I realize that often it is the sole recourse of primitives.

I had to take recourse to this poor horse, because a blasted barber pulled the wool over me.

But, to me, lobotomy is a barbaric recourse.

If this poor hive is to be cleansed, there's only one recourse.

I have no recourse against you here, My Lord.

Otherwise, I shall have no recourse but to remove you.

Then you decided that the only recourse left to you. was to come to Rome and tell your troubles to the Pope?

Without recourse to political direction.

Pardner, there comes a time in the life of every partnership when the party of the first part has no recourse except to knock some sense into the party of the second part!

In view of your recent actions, Harold, you have left me with no recourse but to listen to your uncle's proposed solution.

And an inevitable recourse to a darkened copy of the past map was not that reassuring.

So, the women, the children, and the elderly have no other recourse but to demolish the walls of their city to throw stones at the attackers.

I realise that often it is the sole recourse of primitives.

In the meantime, if you'll excuse me, I ought to put in a call to our lawyer. to see what legal recourse we have in case we do get shut down.

What other recourse do I have?

I'm sorry, but if Rhett doesn't get top billing, he'll have no recourse but to leave the show.

Once you're inside, rescue him quickly. They're still willing to kill him as a last recourse.

We must turn to our last recourse.

I find you have left me with no recourse. but to listen to the solution proposed by your uncle.

She resolved to have recourse to him, and she wrote a letter to him asking him to come to her without delay.

It's very hard for you to believe that there are still some of us who can bring a child to this world without recourse to cannabis and government handouts.

Mars has no other recourse.

Gambling is the last recourse of the desperate.

Doesn't that mean the poor have no recourse to the law?

I have little recourse but to remove the Borg technology.

My only recourse was to warn the secret services.

News and current affairs

Perhaps they may decide that violence is counter-productive and carries its own penalties, and may then follow the Kurdish example of curbing violence, which would help put Iraq together again without recourse to permanent repression.

For thousands of South American, Caribbean, and African children rented out as maids and houseboys, there is no recourse when they are overworked, beaten, and raped.

With little recourse to legal means, an increasing number of frustrated victims of graft resort to extra-legal measures such as strikes, demonstrations, and sit-ins in order to gain media and public attention.

But it is to be hoped that the West's legal systems will provide an alternative recourse, one that will not only partially redress past injustices, but provide incentives for corporations to think twice before profiting from brutal regimes in the future.

Instead of large-scale privatization, it might be better to limit state aid and give competitors legal recourse to seek redress if state aid distorts competition.

It is also why a free press that reports these problems, congressional hearings that investigate them, and a recent set of Supreme Court decisions that give detainees legal recourse are also so important.

The proposed alternative of separation payments but no recourse to the courts is the right economic answer, or at least it goes in the right direction.

The only recourse for dissatisfied patients is to leave the country or go to the courts.

Fortunately, it is not too late to avoid recourse to repression.

Recourse to the latter option means that, even without excess capacity, OPEC can still be in the driver's seat.

However, the holder of a CDO or MBS would be unable to take these homeowners to court. And even if he succeeded, homeowners could simply return their house keys, as they, too, enjoy the protection of non-recourse.

An even better solution would be to go the European way: get rid of non-recourse loans and develop a system of finance based on covered bonds, such as the German Pfandbriefe.

It is hard to see how European countries can indefinitely avoid recourse to the full debt toolkit, especially to repair the fragile economies of the eurozone's periphery.

In countries where non-recourse loans allow borrowers to walk away from a mortgage when its value exceeds that of their home, the housing bust may lead to massive defaults and banking crises.

Obviously, the legacy of colonialism - widespread hunger, illiteracy, lack of property or legal recourse, and vulnerability to state violence - is a major factor in their current poverty.

Yet under Bush, the US has undermined basic civil rights, such as habeas corpus, which guarantees individuals recourse to judicial review when the state detains them.

What recourse do creditor countries have if the debtor countries become the majority and decide to increase spending?

Nevertheless, as we sit on the brink of the abyss, it is worth re-examining our assumptions that since poverty breeds conflict, socio-economic development must foster political stability and reduce recourse to violence.

Later, during the first half of the twentieth century, Africa offered the blood of its inhabitants, and then recourse to its territories, to a European continent in the throes of two world wars.

In Holland, there is no private medicine. The only recourse for dissatisfied patients is to leave the country or go to the courts.

In many of these cases, they were right: without recourse to guns and bullets, nothing in their countries would ever have changed.

But the Fed's low-interest, non-recourse loans to buy up toxic assets have not yet caused a stampede of participants.

The main problem with US mortgage-based securities is that they are non-recourse.

Without recourse to the economist's toolkit, we cannot even begin to make sense of the current crisis.

But, as a result of no-recourse mortgages in many US states, the entire mortgage debt was then extinguished, even if the value of the home was too low to cover the balance still due.

In the absence of a change of heart by our political leaders, the power of prayer may be our only recourse.