have recourse

Example Sentences

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Now, the players have recourse for the egregious calls and the biggest moments of the game.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

"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

But when the removals are not recorded, those protections are not always triggered, and families may not know they have recourse.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 5, 2022

But if you get in trouble for something your employer catches you doing while monitoring you remotely, you probably don’t have recourse.

From Washington Post • Aug. 20, 2021

‘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