Last-resort definitions

As a last resort the mine may be flooded with water.

Clearly the succoss of the coup d'etat of Brumaire was due in the last resort to Lucien Bonaparte.

At Hermione, Artemis was worshipped under the name of Iphigeneia, thus showing the heroine in the last resort to be a form of that goddess (Pausanias ii.

It was obviously, however, a measure to be used only in the last resort and with extreme reluctance.

This is a graded procedure as in the Jewish synagogue and makes exclusion a last resort.