give a hearing
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She also called on Congress to give a hearing to Epstein’s victims.
From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026
Council’s public safety chair said Tuesday that she would give a hearing to Mayor Muriel Bowser’s amended version of the massive criminal code rewrite.
From Washington Times • Feb. 7, 2023
For Conductor Otto Klemperer it was a matter of duty to give a hearing to native talent.
From Time Magazine Archive
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After dwelling upon this injustice he would add, with peculiar gravity, that really in certain moods one all but inclined to give a hearing to the arguments of socialistic agitators.
From The Town Traveller by Gissing, George
The town councils, though most of them willing to receive William in his capacity as stadholder, declined to give a hearing to the commission.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various