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  • Consumers are empowered by Yelp and tools like it: before, when they had a bad experience, they didn't have much recourse. They could fume, but often nothing else other than tell their friends.

    "Yelp CEO talks mobile growth, global expansion... and doner kebabs". Interview with Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2013.
  • But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

    Actors   Fool   Hindsight  
  • If the communications media are a good destined for all humanity, then ever-new means must be found - including recourse to opportune legislative measures - to make possible a true participation in their management by all. The culture of co-responsibility must be nurtured.

  • The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

    Atheist   Evil   Atheism  
  • To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books; they presently fix me to them, and drive the other out of my thoughts, and do not mutiny to see that I have only recourse to them for want of other more, real, natural, and lively conveniences; they always receive me with the same kindness.

    Running   Kindness   Real  
    Michel de Montaigne (1866). “Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Journey Into Italy, and Letters”, p.93
  • Why are we proud? We are proud, first of all, because from the beginning of this Nation, a man can walk upright, no matter who he is, or who she is. He can walk upright and meet his friend - or his enemy; and he does not fear that because that enemy may be in a position of great power that he can be suddenly thrown in jail to rot there without charges and with no recourse to justice. We have the habeas corpus act, and we respect it.

    Men   Jail   Justice  
    "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953".
  • There is no one, however wicked, whom Mary does not save by her intercession when she wishes ... He who has recourse to Mary shall be saved.

    Wicked   Wish   Doe  
  • [T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness.

  • It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.

    Character   Light   Color  
    Pierre Bonnard, Jörg Zutter, Gloria Lynn Groom, National Gallery of Australia (2003). “Pierre Bonnard: observing nature”, Natl Gallery of Australia
  • The only possible recourse a baby has when his screams are ignored is to repress his distress, which is tantamount to mutilating his soul, for the result is an interference with his ability to feel, to be aware, and to remember.

    Baby   Soul   Ignored  
    Alice Miller (2012). “Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries”, p.1, Anchor
  • As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.

    Reading   Crafts   Crowds  
  • It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

    Revenge   Men   Hatred  
  • Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

    Failure   Men   Misery  
    In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 31 (1780)
  • The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.

    Wisdom   Party   Politics  
  • Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.

  • Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.

    Wise   Men   Relaxation  
    St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 4 (Part III, First Section)”, p.1872, Cosimo, Inc.
  • I realize that the nation is facing problems presently that it hasn't faced in a long, long time. But you have a recourse that the unredeemed do not have. That recourse, as you well know, is the Lord. He still answers prayer!

    Prayer   Long   Answers  
  • No country can hope to beat the Yanks off with conventional weapons - they've got air, sea and land completely covered. The only recourse is chemical, biological and nuclear weapons (the Yanks used them in Vietnam, and have not ruled out using them in this war).

    Country   War   Air  
  • Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.

  • War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems to achieve the goal.

    War   Struggle   Goal  
    Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.54, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Mary obtains salvation for all who have recourse to her. Oh! If all sinners had recourse to Mary, who would ever be lost? ... He who is protected by her will be saved; he who is not will be lost.

    Salvation   Mary   Lost  
  • You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent.

    Mean   Giving   May  
  • Abuse manipulates and twists a child's natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can't afford to feel the full range of feelings in her body while she's being abused-pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, arousal. So she short-circuits them and goes numb. For many children, any expression of feelings, even a single tear, is cause for more severe abuse. Again, the only recourse is to shut down. Feelings go underground.

    Children   Pain   Hate  
  • The Singapore judicial system's shameful recourse to using torture - in the form of caning - to punish crimes that should be misdemeanors is indicative of a blatant disregard for international human rights standards, one of the defendants said that sentencing day was the darkest day of his life, but in reality every day that Singapore keeps caning on its books is a dark day for the country's international reputation.

    Life   Country   Book  
  • People are murdering each other without any recourse... So we need to get in our communities and work from the inside out.

  • I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.

    Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.130, A&C Black
  • Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development; rather, it is nourished by communion, to which the church is more propitious than the cemetery.

    Men   Solitude   Feelings  
    "Voices of Silence". Book by Andre Malraux, Part II, Chapter III, 1951.
  • We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties, and history bears witness to the fact that a just nation is trusted on its word when recourse is had to armaments and wars to bridle others.

    War   Facts   Bears  
    George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama (2017). “Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition”, p.20, e-artnow sro
  • The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous economic and social distress.

    June Jordan (1992). “Technical Difficulties: African-American Notes on the State of the Union”, Pantheon
  • In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagined past.

    Stress   Past   Reality  
    "Watchmen". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1986 - 1987.
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