Instead, East Asia s leaders resort to realpolitik.

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Financial authorities resort to increasingly desperate measures in order to buy time.

Instead, when they recognize that they are having difficulty competing internationally, they resort to protectionism.

Instead, they are resorting to diversionary tactics by engaging in overblown rhetorical battles about minor controversies.

Armed individuals resort to kidnapping to get jobs, free family members from prison, and exact revenge.

Other models use principal agent behavior to explain momentum (herd behavior) in financial markets.

In Europe, officials are also turning to stealth taxes, particularly financial repression, to resolve high public debt overhangs. Through regulation and administrative directives, banks, insurance companies, and pension funds are being forced to hold much higher shares of government debt than they might voluntarily choose to do.

Creationists, lacking any coherent scientific argument for their case, fall back on the popular phobia against atheism.

At present, it is boldly highlighting the disparate, even discordant, fiscal responses now being embraced by European Union governments.

In Europe, officials are also turning to stealth taxes, particularly financial repression, to resolve high public debt overhangs.

Russian (or Soviet) leaders opt for perestroika or a thaw only when forced to do so by dire conditions that threaten the regime s survival.

And sometimes they'll resort to what's known as the burn and sniff technique where they'll burn the plastic and smell the fumes to try to determine the type of plastic.

Under the FAO seed accord, a nation can register plants, share their seeds, and derive profits from resulting products. This useful policy reduces exploitative practices that sometimes enable multinational corporations and wealthy governments to obtain outrageous profits from indigenous agriculture.

They are falling back on the same facile, prefabricated responses that Qaddafi used to demonize his domestic and international opponents for four decades.

Everyday it is consulted by 7 of all 1.2 billion Internet users, and its rate of usage is growing faster than that of Internet usage as a whole.

And, for several years, American liberals have looked to Jon Stewart, another comic talent, for critical political commentary.

Thus, they promote gimmicks (zero interest rates and stimulus packages), rather than pressing for the detailed national policies that a robust investment recovery will require.

At the very end of life, physicians then often resort to palliative sedation, which is equivalent to putting the patient to sleep until the time of death, either sporadically or permanently.

For example, many manufacturers resort to electronic translators to translate their product instructions into other languages, even if it turns out to be an unintelligible chaos.

There are increasing reports of Iraqi women resorting to prostitution and of trafficking in women and children to neighboring countries.

They are doing this with humor and empathy, but experience abuse from online trolls who resort to ever more vicious attacks to defend their male privilege.

When George W. Bush was governor, a federal judge ruled that the state's entire penal system was pervaded by a culture of sadistic and malicious violence. Texas prison guards regularly rely on excessive force, the judge concluded, officials ignore sexual enslavement, and the state's isolation units function as virtual incubators of psychoses.

Texas prison guards regularly rely on excessive force, the judge concluded, officials ignore sexual enslavement, and the state's isolation units function as virtual incubators of psychoses.

Those civil rights initiatives on the part of NATO reflect the increasingly workmanlike way that Russia, Europe, and America now work out their disagreements.

In fact, some promising initiatives are underway.

But such practices are still being applied to a lesser degree, and they can be pulled out of the arsenal whenever political or social conditions dictate.

With little recourse to legal means, an increasing number of frustrated victims of graft resort to extra legal measures such as strikes, demonstrations, and sit ins in order to gain media and public attention.

The government blames the rebels for the continued underdevelopment of the country. It also accuses them of resorting to criminal activities like extortion and kidnapping to finance their operations.

When faced with the stigma or trauma of an unwanted pregnancy in Uganda, through situations such as lack of family planning, rape, incest and forced marriage, many women and girls resort to abortions.

Russian bloggers commonly resort to chauvinist tropes, and many are now dabbling in English language commentary, just as North Caucasians draw on Russian as a means to access broader audiences.

In fact, the use of sign language is common in hearing communities wherever speech is not practical or permitted, such as among scuba divers, or footballers, and in television recording studios and stock exchange markets.

Syria s Sunnis are increasingly invoking theology to justify hatred of the Shia minority, and forms of Sunni exclusivism, similar to Al Qaeda s ideology and worldview, are becoming the norm.

2. Failing an agreement on the means for the peaceful settlement of the dispute within a period of six months, the parties to the dispute shall, at the request of any of them, have recourse to the establishment of an impartial fact finding commission.

This argument is all the more forceful if central banks turn to the inflation tax, which falls disproportionately on the poor, who have less means to protect themselves from price increases that undermine the value of their savings.

Many infertile couples now turn to such advanced technologies when other low tech options fail, and they are the treatment of choice not only for tubal damage, but also for significant forms of male infertility.

In addition to the usual techniques for harassing debtors (persistent phone calls, lawyers' letters etc) the loan firms reportedly resort to harassing family members and exposing the names of the student debtors to the public via online platforms.

But, during the last few years, countries have increasingly turned to foreigners and people with considerable foreign experience to assume what is generally viewed as a country s second most important position head of the central bank.

Here in Brussels, where the largely North African immigrant population comprises a quarter of the city s inhabitants, hotels and restaurants recently resorted to an emergency on line recruitment service to counter their worsening staff shortages.

But it also carries with it the idea of a tacit, yet omnipresent, complicity, notably in the case of citizens who may lack the understanding or knowledge of other ways to approach state authorities. So it is also a form of induced powerlessness.