Q What practical recourse does a buyer have when a seller who has already signed a contract of sale nevertheless sells the property to someone else for a higher price?

While the treaty included provisions for reparations, Latvia had no practical recourse for recovering its industrial infrastructure, much of which had been taken to Russia.

We are sympathetic to the concerns of individual authors about the high cost of litigation and how, in many cases, the individual creator may have little practical recourse in obtaining relief through the court system.

In rural China appointed local officials are notorious for imposing arbitrary taxes - school fees, building fees, land-use fees, licensing fees - and people often have little practical recourse but to pay them.

And even if consumers know about the threat to their privacy, they have little practical recourse because most device users have no ability to delete the data collection and transmission software from their phones.

But pulling the rug out from under people who may have no practical recourse is unfair.

The most practical recourse was to trek immediately for the ship, so that at least one person would live to tell the story.

Without proof that the Russians had acted intentionally, the United States had no practical recourse but to write off the suspicious loss of a multibillion-dollar spy satellite.

The 6-to-3 decision left foreign defendants with little practical recourse for violations of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, a treaty the United States ratified in 1969.

Probably the most practical recourse would be to dispute the charge for the product under the Fair Credit Billing Act.