Sentence examples for recourse to terror from inspiring English sources

Ruthless and self-willed, he had increasing recourse to terror, showing no hesitation in eliminating men whom he had ceased to trust, either with or without the pretense of a fair trial.

Another death blow to Modernism was dealt when Democracy had for many postcolonial societies become overshadowed, first, by Democracy's catalyst, Revolution, and second, when Revolution failed, by a sustained and unrelenting recourse to terror.

He begged for forgiveness between those at war in the Middle East, where, he said, "the continuous recourse to acts of terror and war, which aggravate the situation and diminish hope on all sides, must finally give way to a negotiated solution".

The explicit ideals of the French Revolution are the Enlightenment ideals of individual freedom and equality; but, as the revolutionaries attempt to devise rational, secular institutions to put in place of those they have violently overthrown, eventually they have recourse to violence and terror in order to control and govern the people.

"It's impossible to predict the roots of an act of violence," said Gessen, as the panelists questioned the value of a "theatre of protection" if they impeded personal liberties and spoke of an "economy of terror", in which informants and terror suspects with "no other recourse to wealth" sought to transcend their financial destinies.

WASHINGTON — The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, acknowledged for the first time Thursday that she knew by early 2003 that the Central Intelligence Agency had subjected terror detainees to waterboarding but saw little recourse to challenge the practice except by achieving Democratic control of Congress and the White House.

Recourse to state welfare increases.

You have no recourse to argue".

Hence, too, the recourse to Mr Delors.

Something we all had recourse to.

Defense lawyers have little recourse to appeal.