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last resort
last resort
Zelfstandig naamwoord
- an expedient adopted only in desperation
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- The USSR will only use air strikes in the country as a last resort.
- It should be possible for Member States to appoint a supplier of last resort.
- Revocation of a licence should be considered as the last resort for extreme cases.
- The procedures described above imply that the State performs the role of guarantor of last resort.
- French legal theorists consider that public entities under French law do enjoy a State guarantee of last resort.
- Unaccompanied minors and families with minors shall only be detained as a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time.
- New tests on vertebrates shall only be conducted or proposed as a last resort when all other data sources have been exhausted.
- APPLICABILITY TO LA POSTE OF THE LAW OF 16 JULY 1980 AND OF THE PRINCIPLE OF LAST-RESORT STATE LIABILITY FOR THE DEBTS OF LEGAL ENTITIES GOVERNED BY PUBLIC LAW
- This guarantee is consequently an integral part of the Statute of the BNB and its purpose is to allow the BNB to perform its task of lender of last resort.
- These factors bear out that the State is acting as a ‘last resort’ vis-à-vis France Télécom, a transaction to which a prudent investor would not have subscribed.
- And again ‘There have been reports in the press that the French government will stand behind France Télécom, implying that it is willing to be the “lender of last resort” to the company.
- and where the abovementioned forms of cooperation prove not to be appropriate for the Member State concerned, a Member State may, as a last resort, cooperate with an external service provider in accordance with point 1.4.
- This guarantee of last resort will be granted to the National Fund for the Electricity and Gas Industries, not to the enterprises themselves. It could be called upon only after failure of an enterprise had been duly established and prior activation of an inter-company solidarity mechanism up to a given ceiling.
- It merely examines the effect of the exemption from administration and compulsory liquidation proceedings and the role of the State as the guarantor of last resort of all EDF's debts, including those associated with activities not covered by its public service obligations.
- Act No 80-539 and its Implementing Decree do not rule out a State guarantee of last resort, since the latter provides that the supervisory authority ‘shall, where appropriate, release the necessary resources either by reducing the funds allocated to other expenditures and so far unused or by increasing resources’ [15].