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The phrase "a recourse of" is not correct in standard English usage.
It may be intended to convey the idea of a source of help or support, but the phrase itself is awkward and unclear.
Example: "In times of crisis, many people seek a recourse of comfort from their friends and family."
Alternatives: "a source of" or "a means of".
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(073, white, queer, female, 20s) When official agencies like the police and public health 'put it in my mind' to prosecute, then criminalization rises to the status of a primary response to HIV transmission rather than a recourse of last resort.
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Employment tribunals are supposed to be a recourse to justice, yet thousands of workers who win their claims never receive a penny of compensation.
While far from adequate to defend what most people consider basic American rights such as freedom of speech, condo and co-op owners in these jurisdictions at least have a recourse short of costly lawsuits.
Cartoonishness has been a regular recourse of master painters from Roy Lichtenstein and Sigmar Polke to Carroll Dunham and Albert Oehlen.
Not surprisingly, suicide was a frequent recourse of the slaves, who were handy with poisons and powders.
A favourite recourse of writers who find themselves in this position is to ask: "How do you spell that again?", which you might just get away with if the person's called Caoilfhionn or Feardorcha, but you look pretty stupid if his name's Bob.
In another little-known benefit, the card companies provide a recourse in the event of clearance sales.
Ex: A owns a primary residnece with a basis of $500,000 that is subject to a recourse mortgage with a balance of $400,000.
A dictate issued by Mr. Prabhakaran urges followers to wear vials filled with cyanide to be taken in case of capture, a recourse followed by many captured fighters in the past.
The invocation of the Espionage Act against whistleblowers who are blatantly not "traitors" but have acted in the public interest is one of Obama's most squalid, crass, and cowardly crimes, the recourse of an incorrigible prig and a bully rather than that of the noble statesman Obama imagines he will be remembered as.
Secrecy, a central concern and recourse of the early modern period (c. 1450 1750) and especially as a mechanism for defense and aggression in courtly society, plays an essential role in Racine's theatre.
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