Sentence examples for A recompense from inspiring English sources

But the constitution describes royalties as a recompense for the extra costs and risks oil brings.

Madero insisted on the disarmament of the guerrillas and offered Zapata a recompense so that he could buy land, an offer that Zapata rejected.

But the idea of asking nothing for it was Mr Bennett's alone".I felt in a way it's a recompense for the education I was given," the writer told The Economist.

Does he want to build a tree house for the real estate agent's sons as a recompense for the fire, or to goad their mother, or to act out his own regrets as a childless man?

This was a compromised act of charity, if it was charity: the benefactress seeking too large a recompense for her generosity, too self-­interested a cure for her loneliness.

Still, the prospect of joining the European Union, which provided the impulse for the changes, made them more palatable by offering a recompense for the loss of the buffers and cushions previously provided by the state.

All of which brings one to what Marilyn McCord Adams and many others see as the most crucial question of all: How could any sin that a finite being commits in a context of ambiguity, ignorance, and illusion deserve an infinite penalty as a just recompense?

But fair day's work and fair day's pay- well that's introducing the notion of a just reward for work done, a reasonable recompense - the term here includes the notion of a conditional reward.

He received compensation, but it was a pitiful recompense for what's become a lifetime of chronic ill-health, and there is a clear and powerful undercurrent of anger in Landy and his work that is borne of his father's experience.

One potential reward widely mentioned today as a possible recompense for giving President Kim such a diplomatic vindication on the eve of elections was a reconnection of the power grids between the two countries, enabling the booming South to furnish desperately needed electricity.

Third, if, as Anselm insisted, even the slightest offense against God is infinitely serious and thus deserves a permanent loss of happiness as a just recompense, then the idea, so essential to the retributive theory, that we can grade offenses and fit lesser punishments to lesser crimes appears to be in danger of collapsing.