Afterward, the German authorities resorted to forceful draft among members of Blue Police.

The authorities are annoyed about being increasingly forced to react to public opinion, and are resorting to old methods to defend themselves.

Under Labour, some local authorities even resorted to putting surveillance devices in residents' bins, to check they were not using the incorrect receptacle for recycling.

Witnesses say hundreds of unarmed people were killed when the authorities resorted to indiscriminate force.

Rats are still a menace and the authorities have resorted to poison.

The authorities resorted to a harshly punitive approach to control, including, in the mid-seventies, extensive use of solitary confinement.

However as beds was still insufficient, the authorities resorted to buying adjacent private residences to alleviate the shortage.

Instead, Soviet authorities resorted more frequently to brief detentions of those who participated in an increasing number of public demonstrations.

The authorities frequently resorted to use of hired gangs to suppress these movements.

Besides the ban on other parties and the dissolution of many Catholic non-church associations, the authorities resorted to personal insults.