grant/deny access to
idiom
: to give/refuse permission to see
He was granted/denied access to the report.
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Additionally, government agencies that deny access to records, but are then successfully sued and forced to turn them over, will no longer have to pay the requesters’ legal fees.
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Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 6 June 2024
The state should safeguard access to these sites when temperatures fall by ensuring that local land use decision making processes and zoning regulations in Connecticut’s towns are not used to deny access to temporary overflow shelter for those in need.
—David Rich, Hartford Courant, 22 Feb. 2024
Beijing is also weaponizing interdependence—threatening to deny access to its vast domestic market to countries that investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic or call out China’s human rights abuses at home.
—Robin Niblett, Foreign Affairs, 30 Mar. 2021
David Polly said private landowners will grant access to the person who can pay the most, which often is not the scientists.
—Jennifer Vilcarino, ABC News, 31 May 2024
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Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 6 June 2024
The state should safeguard access to these sites when temperatures fall by ensuring that local land use decision making processes and zoning regulations in Connecticut’s towns are not used to deny access to temporary overflow shelter for those in need.
—David Rich, Hartford Courant, 22 Feb. 2024
Beijing is also weaponizing interdependence—threatening to deny access to its vast domestic market to countries that investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic or call out China’s human rights abuses at home.
—Robin Niblett, Foreign Affairs, 30 Mar. 2021
David Polly said private landowners will grant access to the person who can pay the most, which often is not the scientists.
—Jennifer Vilcarino, ABC News, 31 May 2024
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