Resorting to economic, legal and psychological means.
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
Digital technology also makes it easier for people to co-ordinate their activities without resorting to hierarchy.
2017年6月四級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
英語六級真題
That helps explain why, as I'm first's Rubinoff indicated, the schools to which these students end up resorting can end up being some of the poorest matches for them.
2015年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
柯林斯高階英漢雙解學習詞典釋義
VERB
訴諸;采取
If you resort to a course of action that you do not really approve of, you adopt it because you cannot see any other way of achieving what you want.
If you achieve something without resort to a particular course of action, you succeed without carrying out that action. To have resort to a particular course of action means to have to do that action in order to achieve something.