What's the difference between recourse and refuge?

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.

Refuge


Definition:

  • (n.) Shelter or protection from danger or distress.
  • (n.) That which shelters or protects from danger, or from distress or calamity; a stronghold which protects by its strength, or a sanctuary which secures safety by its sacredness; a place inaccessible to an enemy.
  • (n.) An expedient to secure protection or defense; a device or contrivance.
  • (v. t.) To shelter; to protect.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It will act as a further disincentive for women to seek help.” When Background Briefing visited Catherine Haven in February, the refuge looked deserted, and most of its rooms were empty, despite the town having one of the highest domestic violence rates in the state.
  • (2) But even before the reforms, half of the women coming to refuges were being turned away, so beds were already scarce.
  • (3) The guardians of that last refuge must strike back.
  • (4) At least 10,000 civilians took refuge in UN compounds in the capital, said one UN official who asked not to be named.
  • (5) Eventually, when the noise died down, the pair made a dash for it, taking refuge in a nearby restaurant for the rest of the night.
  • (6) Although selenium deficiency in livestock is consequently now rare in Oregon, selenium-deficient soils and attendant selenium deficiency conditions have been reported near the Kesterson Wildlife Refuge in the Northern part of the San Joaquin Valley, California, where, paradoxically, selenium toxicity in wildfowl, nesting near evaporation ponds, occurred and attracted wide attention.
  • (7) Tijuana, Mexico, has become a refuge for cancer patients who have been convinced that they may be cured of their terminal illness by unconventional, unproved, and disproved methods offered in the border clinics.
  • (8) Once again, there was no evidence of any law enforcement presence on or near the refuge.
  • (9) Of the 11 people in custody, five were arrested while driving on a remote highway on Tuesday afternoon , three were arrested in separate incidents outside the refuge that evening, and three more subsequently turned themselves in at FBI checkpoints just outside the refuge.
  • (10) Of UK respondents: 84% agreed that “people should be able to take refuge in other countries to escape war or persecution”.
  • (11) Tuesday’s arrests on a remote highway outside the wildlife refuge, which activists have occupied since 2 January, had left the remaining protesters leader-less and debating whether to continue the occupation or retreat .
  • (12) It’s walkable to the trailhead for the Hielo Azul glacier, and a network of mountain refuges, all with camping ( trekelbolson.com ).
  • (13) So off he toddled with his bindle-stick to play at running away, taking refuge at Sally's house.
  • (14) There is only one specialist refuge in the UK for women with learning disabilities who have suffered domestic violence and, until now, little research into this hidden problem.
  • (15) On the second day of its armed occupation of the Malheur national wildlife refuge , the Bundy militia shifted tactics.
  • (16) When people have gone into refuges they have been there for quite a long time, and that is not desirable because they can become institutionalised."
  • (17) So long as tyrants and terrorists chase innocents around the globe, we must offer them refuge.
  • (18) Grasty, an administrative judge, proposed making Bundy and his associates pay the expenses at a community meeting on Monday night in Burns, the closest town to the ongoing occupation of the Malheur national wildlife refuge .
  • (19) Even more pointedly, he attacked the common Republican philosophical refuge of the doctrine of unintended consequences, or, as he put it, “We can’t do anything because we don’t yet know everything.” “The bullshitters have gotten pretty lazy,” he said, and the previous six hours of debate coverage on Fox News could have told you as much.
  • (20) And he must not pretend to be ignorant of the consequences of continuing to burn coal or take refuge in a "carbon cap" or some "target" for future emission reductions.

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