Sentence examples for authorities resorted to from inspiring English sources

In southern India, the authorities resorted to mass burials as well as cremations.

The authorities resorted to a harshly punitive approach to control, including, in the mid-seventies, extensive use of solitary confinement.

At first the satyagrahis were deported, but later, when large numbers attempted to cross the borders, the Portuguese authorities resorted to force, which resulted in many casualties.

President Ernesto Zedillo and the university authorities resorted to police action very reluctantly, after months of on-and-off negotiations in which university leaders gave in to almost all of the strikers' demands, which included an end to a plan to introduce tuition fees.

The surge was so big the Pakistani authorities resorted to dynamiting river dykes to divert the flow from urban areas, but thereby flooding farming areas and displacing tens of thousands of people.

The Swedish authorities resorted to extreme measures against the 17th-century rebels who were described as snapphanar, a term used for raiding enemy soldiers or bandits.

Think of when it is suggested that the authorities resort to racial profiling to detect criminals.

If crafty journalists and bloggers manoeuvre their message around online censorship walls, the authorities resort to a less sophisticated tactic: imprisonment.

Should the Iranian authorities resort to force, they could trigger upheaval that might bring themselves down in the chaos.

They fit another trend, too the one by which Russian authorities resort to bans to solve problems, rather than working to improve the conditions causing those problems.

The threatened authorities resort to death as deterrent, only to discover that the cross gives birth to an epidemic of freedom.