last resort
Example Sentences
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If demand threatens to exceed supply, grid operators call on power plants to ramp up production and, as a last resort, order utilities to cut power to customers to maintain balance.
A blockade of the Strait of Hormuz would be “very much a last resort,” Parmar says.
They will be able to help outline your options, which will depend on what kind of POA you hold and whether or not your brother requires conservatorship/guardianship, which should be a last resort.
From MarketWatch
“But I think that force, period, should be a last resort. I would appreciate seeing more de-escalation tactics as opposed to use of any sort of force.”
From Los Angeles Times
It is a court of last resort designed to hold the most powerful to account when domestic courts are unable or unwilling to do so.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
