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Discover LudwigThe phrase "make recourse" is not correct in standard written English
The correct expression is "make recourse to," which is used when referring to the act of turning to something for help or support. Example: "In times of crisis, we often make recourse to our past experiences for guidance."
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The corporate veil is a legal term to which lawyers often make recourse in their attempt to pin liability on the parent companies of major corporations.
ISDS undermines state sovereignty by allowing investors to make recourse to a separate court system that enables them to sue states when policies threaten present or future profits.
Today's slurring of the whole category of benefit claimants may not pour over into violence on the streets, because the disparate millions who make recourse to benefits do so for myriad reasons, and are not an identifiable community as such.
Consequently, pressure has been put on researchers and engineers to make recourse to all available tools to improve such efficiency.
However, the changes in our understanding of nature and cosmology, effected by modern natural science, make recourse to the systems of Plato and Aristotle problematic.
For the more plausible utilitarianisms mentioned above, however, such as Mill's and Hare's, the agent does not always calculate afresh, but must instead be alive to the possibility that because the ordinary "landmarks and direction posts" lead one astray in the situation at hand, one must make recourse to a more direct and critical mode of moral reasoning.
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Jesus is referred to in the Tractatus as a religious teacher who makes recourse not to the imaginative faculty but to the intellect.
In lengthy speeches in late March and early April, senators marshaled their best arguments for and against the emancipation bill, making recourse to examples from world history and precedents from the founding fathers and the Supreme Court.
His central thesis was that the problem of induction cannot be solved by making recourse to the probability concept.
He thoughtfully criticizes pop-psychological literature that deals with the authentic life by making recourse to the subdued 'inner child'.
In this paper, free vibrations of nano-beams are investigated by making recourse to the novel stress-driven nonlocal integral model (SDM).
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