6 sentences with 'resorted'

Example sentences and phrases with the word resorted and other words derived from it.

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« Conditions in some regions were so desperate that peasants reportedly resorted to cannibalism on occasion. »
« However, in times of extreme emergency, such as after earthquakes, volcanoes or crop failures, they resorted to the sacrifice of prisoners. »
« Infamously, the French army almost immediately resorted to a systematic campaign of torture against captured rebels and those suspected of having information that might help the French. »
« In New York, the votes were thirty in favour and twenty-seven against. In Massachusetts, the vote to approve it was 187-168, and some claim that supporters of the Constitution resorted to bribery to secure approval. »
« But the Canadian scientist went further: examining coins from the Persian dynasty of the Parthians between the 2nd century BC and the 3rd century AD, he noticed repeated warts on the foreheads of members of the dynasty. Some of them resorted to a loop to disguise it. »
« In 1969, the US resorted to a lottery system linked to conscription, which led to tens of thousands of US soldiers being sent against their will to fight in jungles thousands of miles from home. Despite the vast military commitment, US and South Korean forces began to lose ground in 1970. »

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