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
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
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 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
