have recourse

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On a 780 to 72 vote, lawmakers explicitly concluded that, in Article 34, "the law determines the conditions in which a woman has the guaranteed freedom to have recourse to an abortion."

From Salon • Mar. 4, 2024

"When you release it into the private sector, you have recourse to private capital - you can make the investment that's needed," said Lord Howard, who was also the former Conservative party leader.

From BBC • Jul. 1, 2023

Sometimes in democracies people have recourse against those who abuse power.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2023

But when the removals are not recorded, those protections are not always triggered, and families may not know they have recourse.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 5, 2022

‘The treatment of natural things differs greatly from that of other sciences...In the explanation of natural causes, we must necessarily have recourse to a different kind of principle, called “hypothesis” or “supposition”.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton