If the pope will not move in the matter, the princes, and notably the emperor, must act in co-operation with the bishops, summon national councils even against the popes will, defy his excommunication, and in the last resort refuse obedience in those matters over which the papacy has usurped jurisdiction.
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The British government also disapproved of the French action, partly because they regarded the advance as an extreme measure which should only have been adopted in the last resort, and still more so because the French move had been made independently, and without the sanction of the other Allied governments.
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In non-conflict times, forces should be deployed and used to build confidence and to create peace and stability, and only in the last resort do you want to commit a force to combat, but there is a great utility in having both the iron fist and the silk glove of diplomacy.
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Not least is the sense that we get, in a case like Merryman, of what a clash between the executive and the judiciary is actually like : this provides a healthy reminder of how much we usually rely, in the last resort, on executive submission in upholding the rule of law.
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In Calhoun's words, it is " the right of a State to interpose, in the last resort, in order to arrest an unconstitutional act of the General Government, within its limits . " Nullification can be traced back to arguments by Jefferson and Madison in writing the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798 against the Alien and Sedition Acts.
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To supporters of gold's traditional role, Britain's financial authorities " have lost sight of the reason for having gold reserves in the first place _ they are the bastion of a nation's currency _ to be used in the last resort when paper money becomes unacceptable, " said Haruko Fukuda of the World Gold Council, a London-based group financed by gold mining companies.
