legal avenue

collocation in English

meaningsoflegalandavenue

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legal
adjective
uk
/ˈliː.ɡəl/us
/ˈliː.ɡəl/
connected with ...
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avenue
noun[C]
uk
/ˈæv.ə.njuː/us
/ˈæv.ə.nuː/
a wide road with trees or tall buildings on both sides, or a wide country path or road with trees on ...
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(Definition oflegalandavenuefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflegal avenue

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Many asylum seekers eventually exhaust everylegalavenueopen to them and are then excluded from education, income and housing.
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However, if there is no progress in the council, thelegalavenuemay eventually be the only road forward.
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The civil law has a vital role to play in providing those suffering from domestic violence with an effectivelegalavenueof protection and redress.
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Hunt instead announced he would not order her taken into custody, closing off thatlegalavenue.
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Not all legal avenues were purely private during this era, of course.
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The liquidators are actively pursuing all legal avenues for the recovery of stolen assets.
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It is, therefore, a matter of serious regret that, although all the legal avenues have been explored, we have not met with success.
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Even if that were pursued along strictly legal avenues, the costs would be likely to be little less alarming.
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We consider intervening, exceptionally, in such cases only when all legal avenues of appeal have been exhausted.
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It is simply that as the legal avenues have closed, so the private sector has moved in to exploit the illegal avenues.
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In addition, it stresses the need to enhance the legal avenues for remedying human rights violations.
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However remote the chance, all legal avenues should be explored.
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It appears that all legal avenues have not yet been exhausted in this case.
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Our representations may focus on the possibility of clemency or commutation of the sentence, once all legal avenues have been exhausted.
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But if this is not possible, we are bound to use the legal avenues open to us and the political means we have at our disposal.
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Freedom of expression by individuals is considered, as is the extent to which there is a free press and the availability and effectiveness of legal avenues of protection and redress.
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He has a shareholder meeting coming up, and the legal avenues will not solve his problem in time.
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The movement provides environmental education resources, and also uses legal avenues and political pressure tactics such as lobbying to achieve their aims.
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However recent discoveries have found that legal avenues for divorce existed at the time in question.
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When some of their demands, such as turning the music off at midnight, went unheeded, they began taking legal avenues.
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