Resorting to economic, legal and psychological means.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
Digital technology also makes it easier for people to co-ordinate their activities without resorting to hierarchy.
2017年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B
英语六级真题
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月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B
柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
VERB
诉诸;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.