have recourse to
Example Sentences
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"It is our view that they have recourse to legal action, and we are investigating those legal claims."
From BBC • Nov. 8, 2023
The former mayor now faces "permanent sanctions," though he does have recourse to challenge the move.
From Salon • Jun. 24, 2021
Does a reformed individual have recourse to see a bad act deleted from the cloud?
From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2019
For me, the true receptacles of hopefulness are those books that do not have recourse to the magical thinking involved in the various systems of belief.
From The Guardian • Jun. 2, 2018
‘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
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