Sentence examples for resort to pointing from inspiring English sources

"It's always a sure sign of a campaign that's starting to get very, very nervous when they have to resort to pointing to polls that support their candidacy," Mr. Lehane said.

Maybe the Sun is not the center of our solar system, but if one is to raise serious doubts about that understanding, one needs to adopt the methods by which it was established, and not resort to pointing out that heliocentrism is only a "theory".

Mr. Markey's campaign has been so concerned that voters will take his election for granted that it has resorted to pointing to internal Republican poll numbers to suggest the race is closer than it seems, hoping this will rev up its field workers and keep a steady stream of money flowing in.

So I resorted to pointing out tempting-looking plates and asking my waitress to describe them.

When your date resorts to pointing out beaver dams because dinner is so painfully quiet, I think it's safe to say that you have zero communication skills.

members not to resort to finger pointing, but he struck a pessimistic tone.

So I resorted to the pointing device.

The fact that Islamist terrorism pre-dates Iraq and Afghanistan and that there are many millions of non-Muslims just as aggrieved at foreign policy who do not resort to violence, points to toxic theology as the real culprit.

The resort to euphemism points to why the pollution, which smothered much of the region in 1997, has been a nearly annual torment since the early 1990s: a reluctance to get tough with the country responsible, Indonesia, whose forest fires cause the scourge.

We take pride in the accuracy of our predictions here at the Gold Standard, so when something goes awry, rather than resort to finger-pointing and name-calling, we like to take a deep look at ourselves and say, "How did we miss that?" .

Until we're willing to confront the fact that officers hold some responsibility in many of these cases -- even if it's not in the criminal sense -- we'll continue to resort to finger-pointing instead of having a productive debate about what steps police might be able to take to keep these tragedies from happening so frequently.