Resort \Re*sort"\ (r?*z?rt"), n. [F. ressort.] Active power or movement; spring. [A Gallicism] [Obs.]
Some . . . know the resorts and falls of business that can not sink into the main of it. --Bacon.
Resort \Re*sort"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Resorted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Resorting}.] [OF. resortir to withdraw, take refuge, F. ressortir to be in the jurisdiction, LL. resortire; pref. re- re- + L. sortiri to draw lots, obtain by lot, from sors lot. See {Sort}. The meaning is first to reobtain (by lot), then to gain by appeal to a higher court (as a law term), to appeal, go for protection or refuge.] 1. To go; to repair; to betake one's self.
What men name resort to him? --Shak.
2. To fall back; to revert. [Obs.]
The inheritance of the son never resorted to the mother, or to any of her ancestors. --Sir M. Hale.
3. To have recourse; to apply; to one's self for help, relief, or advantage.
The king thought it time to resort to other counsels. --Clarendon.
Resort \Re*sort"\ (r?*z?rt"), n. [Cf. F. ressort jurisdiction. See {Resort}, v.] 1. The act of going to, or making application; a betaking one's self; the act of visiting or seeking; recourse; as, a place of popular resort; -- often figuratively; as, to have resort to force.
Join with me to forbid him her resort. --Shak.
2. A place to which one betakes himself habitually; a place of frequent assembly; a haunt.
Far from all resort of mirth. --Milton.
3. That to which one resorts or looks for help; resource; refuge.
{Last resort}, ultimate means of relief; also, final tribunal; that from which there is no appeal.
Before seeing Fahd, Voronstov met with Moslem Afghan guerrillas, under Saudi sponsorship, in the Taif Mountain resort.
The sign along Interstate 91, which went up in November, has caused at least 17 people to write letters of complaint to the resort.
The meeting at a resort hotel near Victoria Falls was the first state visit by a South African leader to Zambia, which accommodates the headquarters of the African National Congress guerrilla movement.
But he was fired amid concern about free spending by visiting D.C. government officials who stayed in expensive resort hotels in the islands.
Chung said he and a 20-member survey team would visit North Korea in mid-April to discuss financing and other details for the resort project.
Israel radio quoted Transport Minister Moshe Katzav as saying air service could increase tourism to a beach resort built by settlers in the south of Gaza, near Khan Yunis refugee camp.
Southeast recently had to resort to borrowing from the discount window of the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta, an indication that it may be having liquidity problems, according to two individuals familiar with the matter.
The program will include joint marketing of resort hotels and hotels at major airports worldwide, Hilton International Chairman John Jarvis said Friday.
The International Boxing Federation ended a five-year boycott, scheduling a title fight for June at the Sun City resort.
Chung was to visit Pyongyang in April for talks on joint ventures with the north, which include a resort development in North Korea's Diamond Mountains on the east coast.
Dukakis, who has said he would entertain tax increases only as a last resort, claimed tougher tax collection could bring in up to $50 billion a year from cheats and scofflaws without overburdening honest taxpayers.
The manufacturing, timber and resort areas of the northern Pacific and Great Lakes states also have experienced persistently high unemployment rates, largely because they depend on seasonal employment, Whitener said.
"Since central bankers are always buyers of last resort, they typically come into the market only after the currency has plunged and interest rates have adjusted upward significantly," he says.
What's more, many in both countries consider the U.S. too eager to resort to force and too quick to demand support for its unilateral decisions.
Eighteen people, including six foreign tourists, were hurt when a bomb exploded in the Turkish resort of Kusadasi.
Qintex America, which already owns 53.4% of the resort operator's shares, said it is considering buying the remaining ones for an undetermined price.
In the resort city of Puerto Vallarta, sidewalk real-estate salesmen drape iguanas on their shoulders as come-ons, then switch the conversation to condominiums.
"Would the critics prefer us to do too little too late?" said party chairman Kenneth Baker, addressing 9,000 delegates at the Winter Gardens, a former opera house in this north England resort.
The lender of last resort function consists today of deliberately ill-defined guarantees in return for acceptance of detailed supervision.
The committee is thus a group which is impelled to agree and is instinctively hostile to that which is divisive or new. Failing the decision-by-committee avoidance tactic, individuals can resort to their own preferred approach.
In March 1988, the FAO flew 200,000 frozen fish eggs from Denmark within 36 hours, hatched them in indoor wooden troughs at the resort and transferred them to the canals that are fed by nearby Kargah Lake.
The resort homes of other celebrities, like violinist Yehudi Menuhin and actor Roger Moore are also close by.
'Once the rot sets into a resort it very quickly slips away.
Reporters estimated more than 2,000 policemen guarded the grounds of the National Assembly in the picturesque mountain resort of Yangmingshan in Taipei's suburbs.
Snow fell at higher elevations of Utah, with 5 inches at the Alta ski resort, and light snow lingered in northeastern Nevada, the National Weather Service said.
A former vice president of the failed Midwest Federal Savings and Loan was charged Wednesday with violating federal regulations in arranging a loan to the co-owner of a Miami resort.
What the brochures don't say is that this new luxury Israeli resort is a mile down the beach from a sprawling refugee camp called Khan Yunis, where nine Palestinians have been killed since rioting began in Gaza in December.
The road to St. Anton was reopened today after seven people were killed and at least 20 injured in the resort town on Sunday.
Many women who could not afford that option would likely resort to the illegal and dangerous methods that prevailed prior to the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision, which restricted the right of the states to outlaw abortion.
And after being able to feed itself for the first time in 1983, the country once again has to resort to imports.