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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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
They will give a hearing to everybody but the bore, especially on Sundays, when other forms of entertainment are out of the running.
From A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things by O'Rell, Max