Sentence examples for right to resort from inspiring English sources

But we do not have the right to resort to violence — or the threat of violence — when we don't get our way.

The camp guards, at all events, had to be furnished with whips, and at the slightest sign of an attempted escape or other undesirable act, the guards should have the right to resort to arms.

A spokeswoman for the European Commission said in an e-mailed statement: "If Greece's response is not satisfactory, the commission reserves the right to resort to legal action," adding, however, that "financial penalties will not be imposed at this stage".

George W. Bush after the attacks of September 11 that the United States had the right to resort to military force against any state that aided, harboured, or supported international terrorists, regardless of sovereignty.

To safeguard China's sovereignty and territorial integrity and realize the reunification of the two sides of the straits, the Chinese government has the right to resort to any necessary means.

Relying on that omission, 10 the Court, in effect, concludes that the Treaty merely creates an optional method of obtaining jurisdiction over alleged offenders, and that the parties silently reserved the right to resort to self help whenever they deem force more expeditious than legal process.

Through the employment of the descriptive apparatus of SFL, the semiotic system that was depicted emerged in its own right, without having to resort to any outside system such as comparing a variety with other varieties of Englishes (e.g., American English, British English, or Australian English).

And for some reason that seems acceptable to most Russians: practically no one here has questioned the right of the state to resort to extra-legal violence to maintain power, even against journalists.

The agreement called for negotiations to finally determine the border and reaffirmed the Ṭāʾif treaty of 1934, which had both conditionally assigned the disputed territories of Asir, Najrān, and Jīzān to Saudi Arabia and confirmed the right of either country to resort to international arbitration if negotiations failed.

"The German government has every right to suppress attempts to resort to violence or terrorism— whether perpetrated by Muslim or non-Muslim," said Bakhash.

"Such a framework may seem to imply a degree of moral acceptance of the right of any particular group to resort to violence," wrote Adam Roberts, a professor of international relations at Oxford, in an exhaustive study of the relevance of the laws of war in counter-terrorism.