One of the female attendants of the palace, charged to sew up the cloth that contained the patient, having come to the neck, the fixed point where she was to finish her seam, made a knot according to custom ; but as there was still remaining an end of thread, instead of cutting it as usual with scissors, she had recourse to the candle, which immediately set fire to the whole cloth.

The provinces, however, did not find it a sufficiently strong enough recourse and instead insisted on the inclusion of the notwithstanding clause.

* Allow states and corporations recourse to international arbitration ( for instance, through the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes ) to settle any disputes arising under the agreement, instead of national courts in the host state.

However, this decision was based firmly in the older notions ( see above ) that prevailed at the time as to the mode of corporate decision making, and effective control residing in the shareholders ; if they elected and put up with an incompetent decision maker, they should not have recourse to complain.

Thereafter recourse was had with greater frequency to the judgment of the popes.

With useful work as a factor of production they are able to reproduce historical rates of economic growth with considerable precision and without recourse to exogenous and unexplained technological progress, thereby overcoming the major flaw of the Solow Theory of economic growth.

Hera was jealous of Zeus ' giving birth to Athena without recourse to her ( actually with Metis ), so she gave birth to Hephaestus without him.

This left Edison's other rivals with little recourse but to import foreign-made films, mainly French and British.

Natural theology, thus, is that part of the philosophy of religion dealing with describing the nature of the gods, or, in monotheism, arguing for or against attributes or non-attributes of God, and especially the existence of God, purely philosophically, that is, without recourse to any special or supposedly supernatural revelation.

Other options include recourse to peaking power plants, methane storage ( excess renewable electricity to hydrogen via electrolysis, combine with CO2 ( low to neutral CO2 system ) to produce methane ( synthetic natural gas sabatier process ) with stockage in the natural gas network )

Elizabeth Magnotta and Alexandra Strohl analyze the success of Seinfeld with recourse to the incongruity theory of humor: " The Incongruity Theory claims that humor is created out of a violation of an expectation.

For the time being, Charles ' only recourse was to compromise with Beatrice, allowing her to have Forcalquier and a third of the Provençal usufruct.

As is most often the case with " border blaster " transmitters, the specialized high-power transmitting tubes, which were custom-made in small lots, anyway, have became unavailable, and the only econommic recourse has been to commercially made 50 kW or 100 kW transmitters.

Debris on tarmac causes the cart to become unsteady, and Jack's only recourse is to puncture the side of the gas tank with a screwdriver to avoid falling under the bus.

Haughey's status by 1961 was such that Opposition Leader James Dillon complimented him lavishly on the floor of the Dáil, remarking on his opponent's " skill with which he has had recourse to his brief ," as well as his " extraordinary erudition " and " his exceptional and outstanding ability.

From the viewpoint of anthropologists, cultures of honour typically appear among nomadic peoples and herdsmen who carry their most valuable property with them and risk having it stolen, without having recourse to law enforcement or government.

Left with little recourse, now that his German troops were gone, King Otto gave in to the pressure and agreed to the demands of the crowd over the objections of his opinionated Queen.

The High Contracting Parties solemnly declare in the names of their respective peoples that they condemn recourse to war for the solution of international controversies, and renounce it, as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another.

With the court and the old Fronde in alliance against him, Condé found no recourse but that of making common cause with the Spaniards who were at war with France.

), while for the evening " Tefillah " recourse was had to artificial comparison with the sacrificial portions consumed on the altar during the night.

However, such countries typically allow extradition defendants recourse to the law, with multiple appeals.

In his scramble to learn at least some Italian, Emil had recourse to an encyclopedia, which he once consulted for help in dealing with the cockroaches that infested the Austrian barracks.

Millions of women are subject to physical and sexual violence, with little recourse to justice.

Calling his efforts " super-theory ," Unger has thus sought to develop a comprehensive view of history and society, but to do so without subsuming deep structure analysis under an indivisible and repeatable type of social organization or with recourse to lawlike constraints and tendencies.

Elected officers ( members of parliament and councillors ) sometimes may have recourse to a variant on Morton's Fork when dealing with unhelpful unelected officers, or civil servants.

* Absence of a condition ( Upadhi ), which is given as the definition of an invariable connection to restrict too general a middle term, could itself not be used to establish inference because it is impossible to establish that all conditions required to restrict the middle term are known without recourse to inference and inference, as has been proven earlier, cannot establish itself.

A bad storm or lack of rain at the right time could seriously reduce the crops needed for the winter and there was only a limited recourse because of the limited money, time, and transportation facilities.

Notably, Skinner himself characterized his views as anti-reductionist: in Beyond Freedom and Dignity and other works ( e. g. About Behaviorism and chapter 19 of Verbal Behavior ), he wrote that while mental and neurological states did exist, behavior could be explained without recourse to either.

The constitution was also amended twice during an initial transitional period of three years following the election of the first President of Ireland, when amendments could be made without recourse to the people.

In early lawsuits for breach of contract, the corporate defendants argued that they could not be sued as they were not persons ; if this argument were to be accepted, the plaintiffs would be without recourse, since by statute the shareholders were not liable for the debts of the corporation.

The Enabling Act did not specify any recourse that could be taken if the chancellor violated Article 2, and no judicial challenge ensued.

There were also problems caused by Newman bringing in freelance directors to work on the programme, who sometimes overspent on their plays to try and increase their impact ; with staff directors this could be compensated by reducing the budget of a subsequent production, but for a freelancer there would be no such recourse.

Until 1847, surgeons had no recourse to anaesthetics and depended on swift technique ( surgeons could perform an amputation in a minute or less ), the mental preparation of the patient, and alcohol or opiates to dull the patient ’ s senses.

* Lettre de cachet – Under the ancien régime, a private, sealed royal document that could imprison or exile an individual without recourse to courts of law.

The consultation led to measures which changed the practice and procedure of employment tribunals and how disputes could be resolved without recourse to tribunals.

The distinctive feature of many BITs is that they allow for an alternative dispute resolution mechanism, whereby an investor whose rights under the BIT have been violated could have recourse to international arbitration, often under the auspices of the ICSID ( International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes ), rather than suing the host State in its own courts.

* A CJV could allow negotiated levels of management and financial control, as well as methods of recourse associated with equipment leases and service contracts.

These had recourse to Bishop Zumárraga to intercede with Tello to obtain a suspension of the order until they could be heard before the Spanish Court.

His designation was later changed to " enemy combatant ," which, the Bush administration claimed, meant that he, like many non-citizen suspects in the War on Terror, could be imprisoned indefinitely, and without legal recourse or access.

Of course, like many others < nowiki ></ nowiki > I could have got away with a few polite remarks or diplomatic acrobatics, but when one is General de Gaulle, one does not have recourse to such expedients.

If a sovereign were to attempt to impose new taxes without consulting the gentry then the gentry could have simply refused to collect the taxes, and the monarch would have had little feasible recourse.

Thereafter, such a person had no recourse to the legal system, and could legally be killed or robbed.

Achoti could graduate to Matua, and Matua could be reduced to Achoti, but Manachang were born and died as such and had no recourse to improve their status.

Except for the willingness of William Jennings Bryan to be cross-examined by Clarence Darrow, Stewart's positions controlled the trial and the Scopes defense had no recourse but to ask the jury to convict the defendant so the case could be appealed to the Tennessee Supreme Court ( which overturned the conviction on a legal technicality but upheld the constitutionality of the Butler Act ).

O ' Brien's contract stipulated that NBC could move the show back to 12: 05 a. m. without penalty, though the stipulation was mainly to be used for the limited run late-night NBC Sports recap shows for Wimbledon and the U. S. Open, rather than a permanent relocation, leaving him with no apparent recourse other than resignation.

This system often had no recourse by which students could appeal judgments.

He regarded Wittgenstein as a philosopher with a genius for stating philosophical insights in striking and memorable language, but believed that Wittgenstein ( or at least, the Wittgenstein of the Tractatus ) made claims which could only be supported by recourse to metaphysics.

The 1930s-era Museum had little recourse but to give up the land to the state-its only mitigation being that it could acquire steam from the new plant.