Not only has Alessandro Nencini, the presiding judge of the Florence appeals court, apparently resorted to the same tortured logic as his predecessors; he has also stated things as fact that are manifestly and provably wrong.
Ben Jackson, a student at King's College London, lived in a rented house in Lewisham and dealt with flooding and a broken boiler, and resorted to showering at university.
Unable to restrain the spiky haired libertine, the hotel was forced to call in the Thai army who resorted to shooting the unhinged Billy with tranquilliser darts after he refused to leave his suite.
Tony Abbott resorted to playing these games too, like the foray into the history wars in the last week of the campaign.
Over recent years, particularly following the Lord's Resistance Army insurgency in Katine in 2003, the community resorted to burning charcoal to support their livelihoods.
Thus the right are heard to argue that fascism copied communism: before becoming a fascist, Mussolini was a socialist; Hitler, too, was a National Socialist; concentration camps and genocidal violence were features of the Soviet Union a decade before Nazis resorted to them; the annihilation of the Jews has a clear precedent in the annihilation of the class enemy, etc.
That evening, at a nearby Mexican restaurant, I meet Margot, a midwife from Ramsgate who has resorted to bathing in bleach to rid herself of morgellons.
Timor-Leste's ambassador to Australia said his country was "deeply disappointed" that Australian intelligence agencies had resorted to raids and thought "fair-minded" Australians would reject the "national security" explanation given by George Brandis as ridiculous.
In some cases we resorted to charging rape as a form of torture and in others as inhumane treatment.
When that failed and the goalposts were perceived to have been moved again – with British Museum trustees saying exhibiting the marbles in London "allows different complementary stories to be told about them" – Greece resorted to diplomatic channels.
Service chiefs resorted to squabbling among themselves as it became increasingly clear that their spending on weapons systems Britain could not afford, and in some cases did not need, would end in tears.
