It may be true that the military wants an impotent new Parliament, but when liberals resort to supporting the tools of dictators, the future is bleak.
Unless accommodation of some sort is reached, eventually Putin may resort to supporting and arming stateless terrorists in attacking the U.S.
If they are not feeling strong enough to contend at the Olympic trials, they may resort to a support role.
Problematic users on ordinary incomes often resort to crime to support their habit.
There are many who overdose on heroin, but there are also many who resort to crime to support their habit.
The Fed lent not only to banks, but, seeking to stem the panic in wholesale funding markets, it also extended its lender-of-last-resort facilities to support nonbank institutions, such as investment banks and money market funds, and key financial markets, such as those for commercial paper and asset-backed securities.
Many organizations who openly supported the public promotion of climate denialism now have resorted to clandestine support.
But if we see in the war of 1914-1918, as I do, the consequence of interactions between a plurality of powers, each of which was willing to resort to violence in support of its interests, then we might also infer we need to devise better ways of integrating new great powers into the international system.
Nevertheless, when the task is too complex or the interests at stake are too important, it quite often happens that we do not know or we are not sure what to decide and, in many instances, we resort to a decision support technique: an informal one-we toss a coin, we ask an oracle, we visit an astrologer, we consult an expert, we think-or a formal one.
Jorge del Castillo, deputy Mexico manager for Mitsubishi UFJ, a Japan-based bank, said that the use of the public vote to justify the cancellation raised the possibility that Mr. López Obrador would resort to similar votes to support other contentious decisions.
