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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.

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.

Even if Samsung's smart-phone future is up in the air, the company can fall back on a hidden weapon: its semiconductor division.

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

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.

No doubt something like this would make use of a SSD, but since nothing like that exists, I guess we can always fall back on these options.

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

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.

When British leaders fall back on the Commonwealth as a measure of influence, you know they are in retreat.

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

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.

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.

I must fall back on what I said previously.

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.

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.

When under attack themselves, they fall back on a more inclusive understanding of science that drastically waters down naturalism.

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

fall back on This is a phrasal verb which means to be able to rely on or use in tough times.

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

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

I needed to build a safety net of savings my wife and I could fall back on in case things went south after I quit my job.

And when they weren't used to it, they would kind of fall back on a lot of gender stereotypes.

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.

But if Icelanders fall back on the Viking tradition of bold defiance and vote against the plan, this could be one long saga indeed.

Alarmingly, there is no institutional or legal recourse that the EU can fall back on to enforce the rules.

( love teeth) wisdom teeth. . . it fall back on fire and he found it for me.

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

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.

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

The public door ACL does not exist, so you fall back on the ACL of the parent.

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.

Instead, particularly among Republicans, they fall back on feel-good slogans about American "greatness" .

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

I can't wait to see what we do in four years, fall back on the Red Arrows and the brass bands I guess.

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

Believers, of course, can fall back on the logically less rigorous support that they characterize as faith.

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.

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

Of his love, has become the spirit of love lost, no, I fall back on, the momentum alive.

In the service economy there aren't great ways of measuring productivity, so a lot of the time people fall back on these old tools.

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

The battle is going badly for us, we'd better fall back on the town in the hills.

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.

If the intellectual case against speculators is weak, one can always fall back on the emotional one.

When Indians talk about China, many fall back on what is essentially a tortoise-and-hare rendering of their relative performance.

Some designers fall back on templates or personal work habits when conceptualizing a design.

Amid such chaos, it's understandable why American colleges fall back on standardized tests.

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

Otherwise, programmers will fall back on another tendency: when in doubt, build it over again.

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

For all Mr Obama's fine talk, says the Grand Old Party, Democrats fall back on their traditional job-killing cure-all.

Whenever the vehicle loses the GPS fix on its position, it can fall back on dead-reckoning navigation from its radar odometer.

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 .

You must fall back on what you said at the meeting.

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

Nor can we any longer fall back on our historical trump card of geographic isolation.

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

David has two strings to his bow; if his career in politics falls through, he can fall back on his law practice.

Most answers fall back on the theories about the human mind and basic human needs.

When the economy weakens, firms fall back on organic growth financed by earnings.

You can always fall back on old friends in time of need.

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

Don't fall back on useless modifiers like: "People say I'm an amazing leader. "

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

Inside an object, there is no such handle, so you must fall back on $this.

When all else fails, however, you can always fall back on the eight-hour test.

Where negotiation fails, they must fall back on the law.

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

You can always fall back on him when you are in difficulties.

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.

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

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.

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

This means that they have to stretch their English speaking skills because they cannot fall back on their Chinese.

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

Or fall back on the tried and trusted dial-up.

In the wake of the Dubai debacle, lenders to the Gulf may favour those states that can fall back on "real assets" , such as gas and oil.

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

If they are revealed as the ultimate beneficiary in one jurisdiction, they can fall back on another.

In an emergency we can always fall back on our savings.

Journalists should try using it (they can fall back on big cheese occasionally).

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

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.

In an emergency we can fall back on our savings.

In an emergence we can fall back on our savings.

What's going on, she suggests, is that when we feel a lack of control we fall back on superstitious ways of thinking.

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.

It is these things where we should fall back on expert judgment and more experienced people.

You are the one we can always fall back on when luck is against us.

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.

Building Lua is easy; you just run make ; you can fall back on posix or even ansi if you don't want to rely on platform-specific features.

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

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.

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

Otherwise, programmers will fall back on another tendency

Fall back on old friends in time of need

Rest your headyou worry too muchit's going to be alrightwhen times get roughyou can fall back on usdon't give upplease don't give up

and be someone to fall back on

i'll be someone to fall back on

You can fall back on us

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