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Most conservatives may end up supporting him, faute de mieux.
While recognizing the mediated and biased nature of their sources, imperial historians use them faute de mieux.
To a large degree, this was a case of faute de mieux.
Happy-face solutions that accept the faute de mieux response divide into two kinds: semantic theories of vagueness and epistemic theories of vagueness.
Where no simple concordances are known, as appears to be the case here, the argument has to be conducted faute de mieux mainly through style analysis.
Nevertheless, some of them are experts, having become so faute de mieux because they have been consulted for so long.
The men who go fishing and the merchants who sell fish on the dockside grudgingly accept the position—faute de mieux.
So consultation with it in its present form can be only faute de mieux.
We are putting it forward merely on the basis of faute de mieux and for no other reason whatsoever.
