last expedient

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Yet neither percentage, nor tenths, nor sacrilegious spoils, sufficed to meet his expenses; and, as a last expedient, the coin was debased, and irreparable injury inflicted on the country.

From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Cusack, Mary Frances

There was no time to halt themselves, to evade the three, and with a mutual instinct Lanier and Randall seized together the last expedient open to them.

From Astounding Stories, April, 1931 by Various

To search the sea-ports personally he regarded as a last expedient.

From The Waif of the "Cynthia" by Laurie, André

But before having recourse to this last expedient I would make another attempt to go against the wind and the current.

From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I by Nansen, Fridtjof

The turn had come for the last expedient.

From The Half-Hearted by Buchan, John