have recourse to
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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
"When you release it into the private sector, you have recourse to private capital - you can make the investment that's needed," said Lord Howard, who was also the former Conservative party leader.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2023
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
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