have recourse to
Example Sentences
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Asylum seekers also do not have recourse to public funds, but they do have access to state-provided accommodation and limited financial support.
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2025
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
Florida residents do have recourse to a state-created nonprofit often referred to as the “insurer of last resort” — Citizens Property Insurance Corporation of Florida.
From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 2022
If the neighbors in question feel they are being slandered, then they have recourse to the courts.
From New York Times • Mar. 14, 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
