dernier ressort

Believing this information to be correct, I set this last proposition aside and kept it in my sleeve as a dernier ressort.

Of this dernier ressort they would be deprived, if equal sentences were passed on all for like offences.

There was always in this case the dernier ressort; the editor could be forced at the point of a pistol.

He will not accept the worthless thing thrown at His feet, as a dernier ressort.

He favors sending out a commissioner to Europe for aid, on the basis of emancipation, etc., as a dernier ressort.