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Plan to have at least one year's living expenses to fall back on or provided for by a second household income.

Know at least two or three languages, so if one dies off, you have another one to fall back on while you train for a new technology.

An order had come to him to fall back and support our right; and instead he fell forward and went over the hill to the left.

Now they have nothing to fall back on since they will be stripped of every single piece of stolen properties that do not belong to them.

When the big bills for his wife's hospital care came, he was glad he had money in the bank to fall back on.

An order came for him to fall back and support our right. Instead, he moved forward and went over the hill to the left.

Sometimes, two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together.

No matter how much we grow up, while at least one parent is alive there's always a sense of having someone to fall back on.

The EU was missing a common treasury, he noted, which could have served as a last resort to fall back on in the time of a debt crisis.

Even if Sallie's debt falls to junk levels and its access to capital markets is restricted, these will give it a cushion to fall back on.

In a production environment it would be anticipated that HTTPS streaming can be used as a worst-case scenario to fall back to.

On most other questions I should have to fall back on the expert much earlier, and would be less able to test his pronouncements.

Badly beaten , the enemy had to fall back in disorder .

The unemployed typically have few liquid assets to fall back on and little chance of a loan from the bank.

With no functioning law to fall back on, they knew also that the only way to get a power supply was to take matters into their own hands.

This takes only a moment to fall back into a series of uncertain modulations of key as well as volume.

There are a many possible causes for waking up in the middle of the night and being unable to fall back to sleep.

The pilot would then experience about a minute and a half of zero-G before the spacecraft begins to fall back to Earth.

Of course, the worst case is to fall back to using threads for blocking actions that really cannot be converted into asynchronous callbacks.

Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that have poisoned our politics for so long.

Prices of high-end apartments are forecast to fall back to 2005 levels within a year, property analysts say.

But there now followed an unfortunate interval of wet weather, during which she was obliged to fall back upon her sovereigns.

We are not going to leave Afghanistan to fall back into the hands of terrorists and the extremists who host them.

In other words, should you be able to fall back on the legal defence usually known as necessity?

By 2010, moreover, Mr Obama will no longer be able to fall back on the excuse that all of this was beyond his control.

So it's easy to fall back on the idea that if you don't take responsibility, you'll never fail.

The woman herself had been made well and was content to fall back into the crowd without talking to Jesus.

In an address last week, Iceland's prime minister told his countrymen that they would have to fall back on the resources of land and sea.

Do you think it will be easy to fall back into your old lifestyle pattern?

Now that the banks are going to be forced to fall back on their retail operations, it is a good time to rethink the domestic business model.

But now that he is no longer there to say no, the non-oil budget deficit is unlikely to fall back below 10 per cent of GDP.

A lot of er nais come to depend completely on their husband, but have nothing to fall back upon if he changes his mind.

Allowing one customer to dictate my hours was the worst mistake I ever made as when that contract was over I had nothing to fall back on.

She was obliged to fall back on her own resources and habits for everything connected with the future.

The enemy had to fall back (to the river).

You may well smile , but a little outside investment will at least give us something to fall back on .

Eg. We had to fall back on the notes collected by students during the course of his lectures.

As a spacecraft begins to fall back to earth atmosphere, the crew begin to feel gravity.

The enemy had to fall back on the second line of defence.

Forced into an adversarial position with an indifferent society, they have nothing to fall back on but their talents.

The UK is arguably in a worse position, with no national aircraft industry to fall back on and exports to the US or Europe unlikely.

When we're caught off-guard, we're more likely to fall back into old, ineffective habits like the combat mentality.

Our attack was so vigorous that the enemy had to fall back.

However, the framework is able to fall back to plain sockets.

The point is, we all need a nest egg to fall back on, but not while wearing a good suit.

If we are to deal purely with Twain the humorist , we have to fall back upon the details of his art.

Even the most sophisticated companies have to fall back on established distribution systems.

Luckily for him, he was still wearing his crash helmet and had a snowy cushion to fall back on.

Remember, we don't say that the baseball "wants to fall back to the ground. "

Terrorists are less inclined to seek the newest or most sophisticated method of attack than to fall back on pragmatic solutions.

Remember not to fall back on old acquisitive habits. Then enjoy your newfound freedom from clutter.

Mr Mubarak has had to fall back on the army; and he has lost control of the presidential succession.

You need someone to fall back on and I'll be that I'll take you side.

Following last week's correction, when prices started to fall back, it appears $125 a barrel was a temporary peak.

It predicts that food prices are unlikely to fall back down for another two years.

The country was in possession of the bosses and the emigrant and decent people had to fall back on sport or culture.

I even wrote a novel about how people needed to fall back on antiquated technology to survive the storm when everything else failed.

Sorry, Beijingers. You'll have to fall back on the intellectual-superiority argument now.

Apart from a few articles by Dr. Alexander , he was forced to fall back on that expert's book .

Mr Papaconstantinou insists that Greece does not plan to fall back on support from the EU and IMF.

Besides, the BOE still expects inflation to fall back below 2% later this year as the impact of lower energy bills feeds through.

Again, the urge is to fall back to the ineffective response styles, but it is doubly important to resist the urge.

But, of course, there is always "market sentiment" to fall back on.

As his expectations for existence become harder and harder to satisfy, man will begin to fall back on basic necessities.

And you get a far lower risk of famine, because you actually had two crops to fall back on, not one.

She's completely homeless - at least I have my parents to fall back on.

Schrier received permission to fall back to his jump-off position so as to better protect the MSR.

The more challengers who threaten Mr Romney's lead, only to fall back again, the more inevitable his ultimate victory begins to appear.

He is a man to fall back on in case of emergency.

This forces the program to fall back on techniques that resemble manual memory management.

On most other questions I should have to fall back on the expert much earlier.

Although Alcon 3 tries to fall back on using a Local Shared Object in that situation, it doesn't work out as well as initially expected.

We had to fall back on powdered milk when fresh milk was not available .

By introducing a new response, you resist the temptation to fall back on old, stale beliefs.

In the end, all there really is to fall back on is the prospect of continued easy policy from the world's central banks.

After its bubble burst, the country's stock market often rallied on recovery hopes, only to fall back hard.

When all else fails, there is still civic pride to fall back on.

This mini-moon then started to fall back towards Iapetus, they argue.

Of course, showbiz is a good profession to fall back on - even after a long absence.

Eventually the 20th Division was out-flanked and forced to fall back southwards .

I have a little money in the bank to fall back on.

Most of the new funds have come from savings, not credit, and the Chinese still have $2, 000bn in bank accounts to fall back on.

Consumer-price inflation rose to a 16-year high of 5. 2% in September, but is expected to fall back soon.

We had to fall back on dried milk as fresh milk wasn't available.

Spot iron ore prices hit a two-year high above $180 a tonne in April, only to fall back, hitting a low of $117 a tonne in June.

Most telecoms operators do not have a mobile business to fall back on.

Because this value is optional, you may need to fall back on checking the most recently posted item for its pubDate.

Even if you find yourself starting to fall back into your old ways, that doesn't mean it's time to abandon the plan.

And so although we may occasionally move to higher levels, we'll continue to fall back into that safe zone to communicate.

So many of the soldiers were getting killed that we had to fall back.

He tries to fall back on the other pleasure of life.

He yelled for his men to fall back.

Between 1929 and 1932, the Dow Jones Industrial Average soared by more than 20% four times, only to fall back below its previous lows.

If the Pru has to fall back on that, thank goodness for shareholder activism.

To fall back or retreat, as from battle.

I had to fall back on my savings when I was unemployed.

If their spades break4 - 1, I still have the diamond finesse to fall back on.

He had expected gold to fall back toward $1, 000 by year end.

When you need someone to fall back on, I will always be here.

Then in future, if things go badly for our descendants, they will have something to fall back on and won't be bankrupted.

He has his rich parents to fall back on.

When I lost my job I was glad I had my savings to fall back on.

We have some bottles of mineral water to fall back on.

It's always useful to have something to fall back on.

It is wrong to fall back on lies.

Acting is a very uncertain profession, so you need something to fall back on, such as a university degree.

He just doesn't want to fall back into that old friend-ship.

Or wounded? It's not like I have a trust fund to fall back on, dad.

It's good to have a friend to fall back on.

I like to keep some money in a savings account to fall back on in an emergency.

He hides money in the mattress so he can have something to fall back on .

Do you really hanker the life to fall back?

It's a whole lot easier to drop an idea that's not working and move on if you have a job to fall back on.

In last year's jumpy markets, however, banks' fees rose to 3% or more and have been slow to fall back.

It's euphoria causing the price to go up and realism causing it to fall back,

Demonstrate your commitment to the transition by declining people's request to fall back on old habits

Function is already defined to fall back to

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