What's the difference between fallback and recourse?

Fallback


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If the initial acceleration of the atrial rate is available from a Holter monitor or a standard electrocardiographic recording, the fallback response can be easily detected as the transition from pacing at the upper rate limit to the fallback rate.
  • (2) This has led some western officials to saythe group might be preparing to use the Libyan front as a fallback base in case of a defeat in Iraq and Syria.
  • (3) Only two things can: a more attractive agreement, or a less attractive fallback.
  • (4) It destroyed its usefulness to Tehran either as a fallback in case its publicly acknowledged enrichment plant in Natanz was bombed or as part of a covert parallel uranium processing cycle aimed at building a bomb – as western governments allege.
  • (5) A new fallback function may be useful to prevent the initiation of ELTs.
  • (6) [But] as long as we've got the fallback of mutual aid, we would cope and we would deal with it effectively."
  • (7) The government is actively considering the policy known as quantative easing as a fallback position.
  • (8) It is that Israel greatly prefers the fallback option to a peace agreement.
  • (9) Supraventricular tachyarrhythmic attacks were associated with attainment of the programmed upper rate limit at which time the fallback mode was activated and the pacemaker automatically converted to a ventricular demand (VVI) mode.
  • (10) Since Oslo, in fact, the US has done quite the reverse, working to maintain the low cost of Israel’s fallback option.
  • (11) The budget report said the government "aims" to do this without purchasing controversial carbon credits from cuts made in other countries, but said these "offsets" could be a "fallback option".
  • (12) Osborne's fallback is to argue that the UK's downturn is nothing to do with his austerity measures, but caused by a sudden collapse in growth across Europe and the US.
  • (13) Forbidding any risk rating is likely to cause adverse selection problems, whereas permitting the fallback insurer to risk rate should help it to perform its proper role and avoid being subject to dumping of high risks.
  • (14) But many people are over-reliant on IVF – not fate – as their fallback.
  • (15) The fallback argument that Snowden has alerted terrorists to the fact that Washington is able to read their emails and listen in on their phone conversations – enabling them to change their methods of communication – is hardly worth considering, as groups like al-Qaida have long since figured that out.
  • (16) The performance of a fallback insurer, present in most market-based health reform proposals, is shown to depend on whether or not it is permitted to risk rate.
  • (17) In conclusion, intermittent supraventricular tachyarrhythmias which are resistant to drug therapy can be treated with His ablation and dual chamber pacing utilizing special pacemaker features such as the fallback mode.
  • (18) Benyon said new powers in the water bill to directly regulate flood insurance premiums were a "fallback" plan.
  • (19) The Palestinians, too, have endeavoured to make Israel’s fallback option less attractive through two uprisings and other periodic bouts of violence.
  • (20) Meeting this target in the fallback year of 2015-6 also now looks improbable.

Recourse


Definition:

  • (n.) A coursing back, or coursing again, along the line of a previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat; recurence.
  • (n.) Recurrence in difficulty, perplexity, need, or the like; access or application for aid; resort.
  • (n.) Access; admittance.
  • (v. i.) To return; to recur.
  • (v. i.) To have recourse; to resort.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gastroduodenal investigation must of course be comprised of pictures during collapse, semi-collapse and repletion of the entire duodenal outline; once out of every two times, one has to recourse to intravenous duodenography which has become a routine investigation.
  • (2) Using this olfactory scale in the blotting paper test a rough quantitative screening of the degree of olfaction impairment should be possible, without recourse to expensive olfactometry.
  • (3) Perhaps the most controversial aspect of the legislation is its so-called “Henry VIII powers” that grant the government executive power to amend existing legislation without further recourse to parliament.
  • (4) The analysis of positive cases allows it to be stated that on each occasion in which the reaction is positive there is a pregnancy, but the location of this pregnancy is uncertain, and recourse to a complementary technique is justified.
  • (5) The aim of the study was to assess vomit and pain control in terminal cancer patients with inoperable gastrointestinal obstruction, using a pharmacologic symptomatic treatment which prevents recourse to nasogastric tube placement and intravenous hydration, in hospital and home care settings.
  • (6) This leaves members of the public open to wrongful arrest with no right of recourse and heavy-handed tactics and abusive actions by police not subject to disciplinary proceedings,” he said.
  • (7) Sacked unfairly, few will have recourse to the law.
  • (8) Every violation by Uber will be evaluated and we will go for legal recourse,” said Madhur Verma, the Delhi police deputy commissioner.
  • (9) The growth of populations and the spread of urbanization, resulting in new agricultural structures, have entailed a concentration of livestock production and recourse to new techniques.
  • (10) Physical and psychological barriers left them significantly disadvantaged, politically powerless, and without legal recourse in matters of discrimination.
  • (11) The ready recourse to these grafts, so much in vogue at the present time in primary rhinoplasties, should be carefully and completely re-examined, since the final result very frequently yields no real benefits and may permanently deface the area from which the cartilage has been taken.
  • (12) When facing these issues ethical behaviour depends upon an individual's understanding and acceptance of this painful dilemma without recourse to external moral authority.
  • (13) "Health care personnel may not apply undue pressure of any sort on individuals who have opted for the extreme recourse of a hunger strike.
  • (14) Two recent technical advances facilitate the derivation of proliferating hybrids from human diploid fibroblast strains without recourse to biochemical selection: (1) a new chemically-mediated method of somatic cell fusion (PEG-DMSO) yields hybrids at rates as high as 1 in 160 colonies after dilute plating of treated cell mixtures, and (2) a simple technology for assessment of DNA content (flow microfluorometry) permits rapid and highly sensitive monitoring of ploidy.
  • (15) In endodontic treatment of teeth, partial or "conservative" crown reconstructions are clinically acceptable where loss of substance is limited and recourse to radicular pivots is contraindicated.
  • (16) and I.S.A.3,000 from the percentage of emphysema as determined macroscopically, without recourse to histological methods.
  • (17) The ever-growing recourse to profit-driven firms to provide prisons is diametrically opposed to the provision of reform and rehabilitation in prisons.
  • (18) There is currently no right of appeal – if the tribunal rules against an individual, his or her only recourse is to the European court of human rights.
  • (19) Paget's disease may in some cases require recourse to surgery: (1) Fractures of bones in patients with the disease mend normally but slowly.
  • (20) But to steer a path through Europe's biggest financial crisis in decades, reboot France's stuttering economy, reverse the surge in unemployment and wipe out the government's overdraft without simple recourse to drastic austerity measures and while preserving a generous welfare state, Hollande needs the solid backing of parliament to pass his reforms.

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