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
The effect of the law, she said, is that someone can sell works at auction that have never been restored to their rightful owners, who do not have recourse to block the sale.
From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2017
‘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
