have recourse to
Example Sentences
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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
Does a reformed individual have recourse to see a bad act deleted from the cloud?
From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2019
An investigation will make clear that all victims of serious crimes have recourse to an independent and impartial process for having their claims heard.
From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2018
Like social workers and others who work in care, foster care workers should be remunerated properly, treated fairly, and have recourse to due process.
From BBC • Sep. 19, 2016
‘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
