dernier ressort
Example Sentences
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He will not accept the worthless thing thrown at His feet, as a dernier ressort.
From Macaria by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)
Dalrymple, the chief hydrographer of the Admiralty, who had chief claims to the command, was also somewhat of a faddist, and Cook was selected almost as a dernier ressort.
From The Story of Geographical Discovery How the World Became Known by Jacobs, Joseph
This is the last refuge of the Theist—the dernier ressort of the theologian.
From Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others by Pringle, Allen
Of this dernier ressort they would be deprived, if equal sentences were passed on all for like offences.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 551, June 9, 1832 by Various
He favors sending out a commissioner to Europe for aid, on the basis of emancipation, etc., as a dernier ressort.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp
