1 Doctors sometimes fall back on old cures.

2 When the business failed, we had to fall back on our savings.

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

4 He could always fall back on his old jokes.

5 She has no relatives to fall back on.

6 At least we can fall back on candles if the electricity fails.

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

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

9 He has her support to fall back on when the going gets tough.

10 We had centuries of contacts to fall back on.

11 I've got to have something to fall back on.

12 Without Rice to fall back on like a feather bed of dreams, the 49ers made the transition from specificity to diversity.

13 No longer could he fall back on the comforting routines of the novitiate to give structure to his life.

14 Pupils can often fall back on a circular argument such as: Why is the relationship linear?

15 He had no time to work out meanings, fall back on old attitudes and positions.

16 I don't like to fall back on what comes automatically.

17 Then Kuhn fall back on linguistic analysis and advise a taxonomic interpretation of his controversial notion of incommensurability. That is called Kuhn's "Linguistic Turn".

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

19 If I lose my job, I'll have nothing to fall back on.

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

21 When necessary,[] instinct is the most reliable resource you can fall back on.

22 If Mr. Jones can't find a job as a teacher, he can fall back on his skill as a printer.

23 It's very hard if you have no family to fall back on.

24 In less than a year I would reach retirement age and I had nothing to fall back on.

25 There will be no chain of command among the prison population to fall back on.

26 The transition back to work is easier, however, if individuals have worked previously and have skills to fall back on.

27 The only way to deal with him was to fall back on the technique that had always served her best.

28 It does not deter firms from supplying on credit, and there is always insurance cover to fall back on.

29 She was an alien in the country with no dole to fall back on, didn't have much money.

30 And their continued existence, damn them, means this writer can no longer fall back on one of his favourite lines.

1 When the business failed, we had to fall back on our savings.

2 If Mr. Jones can't find a job as a teacher, he can fall back on his skill as a printer.

31 President Polk's alternative to the Wilmot Proviso was to fall back on the Missouri Compromise, an 1820 law that permitted Missouri to be admitted as a slave state with Maine as a free state.

32 I still have the heart finesse to fall back on.

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

34 The enemy had to fall back on their final line of defence.

35 However, he had another son -- the youngest one -- to fall back on.

36 The troops were ordered to fall back on the second line of defence.

37 The loans also give them recurring income to fall back on when market conditions worsen.

38 Shenton's critics, it should be pointed out,[] can fall back on spherical trigonometry and astronomical -observations that date right back to Aristotle in 330BC.

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

40 Doctors sometimes fall back on modern medicines in case of emergency.

41 The soldiers were ordered to fall back on the final line of defence.