Fall-back-on Sentence Examples

Army and fall back on a line that could be held by a smaller number of troops.

Otho's advanced guard successfully defended Placentia against Alienus Caecina, and compelled that general to fall back on Cremona.

If this view be, rejected and it is necessary to fall back on the choice between 64 and 67, the problem is perhaps insoluble, but 64 has somewhat more intrinsic probability, and 67 can be explained as due to an artificial system of chronology which postulated for Peter an episcopate of Rome of twenty-five years - a number which comes so often in the early episcopal lists that it seems to mean little more than "a long time," just as "forty years" does in the Old Testament.

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We thus after all fall back on reflection as our ground for their universal application; mere spontaneity of apprehension is futile; their universality is grounded in their necessity, not their necessity in their universality.

It might either fall back on the moral principles commonly accepted, and, affirming their objective validity, endeavour to exhibit them as a coherent and complete set of ultimate ethical truths; or it might take the utility or conduciveness to pleasure, to which Hume had referred for the origin of most sentiments, as an ultimate end and standard by which these sentiments might be judged and corrected.

On the 20th extreme destitution obliged the British to fall back on Badajoz.

At least you have the viewfinder to fall back on in those circumstances.

The Bourbonists in Calabria, utterly disorganized, broke before the invincible red-shirts, and the 40,000 men defending the Salerno-Avellino line made no better resistance, being eventually ordered to fall back on the Volturno.

We are forced to fall back on fatalism as an explanation of irrational events (that is to say, events the reasonableness of which we do not understand).

In fact I am thankful to have my state pension to fall back on.

While other people may fall back on easy standbys, you can find an unexpectedly perfect gift.

It's a different story if you have plenty of money in savings for emergencies even after paying your debt off, but if paying your debt means you have no money to fall back on in the bank then you should leave your money where it is.

It's good to have something else to fall back on if your life style changes.

That's why it's so important to have a strong emotional core, the essential you to fall back on.

When trouble within the ranks occurs, members have no other outside friendships to fall back on for comfort or support.

Many teens that contemplate on dropping out of school look at the GED as something easy to fall back on and think it is just as good as a diploma.

After Heidi Montag fell a bit flat with her first music single "Higher," it seemed that she would just fall back on her status as reality show star on MTV's The Hills.

This is important because replacement parts for proprietary kits may be impossible to find once the kit is out of production, and there may be no generic equivalents to fall back on.

If you do love them, but they break as a result of defective craftsmanship or materials, you have a two-year warranty to fall back on.

If you think you may be interested in pursuing video game design, but are not sure it is your chosen career, it is a good idea to have a four-year degree from a major university to fall back on.

If your company's maternity leave policy only provides a portion of your salary, having savings to fall back on will ease the burden somewhat.

The best part is you'll always have the original design to fall back on for days when you just feel like covering up.

It's considered a good luck symbol, so if you happen to be born in the year of the Rat, you have some excellent qualities to fall back on.

Only time will tell, but when age and injury take their toll, having your own TV show to fall back on isn't too shabby.

Female children, on the other hand, have two copies of the X chromosome, which often leaves them one normal X chromosome to fall back on to produce that essential protein, allowing proper development to occur.

At the urging of his father he learned the trade of carpentry so that he would have something to fall back on should acting not pan out.

When the German squadron was sighted it would have been possible to fall back on the " Canopus," but this would have entailed the destruction of the " Otranto," which would have been overtaken by the enemy in two or three hours.