Sentence examples for The recompense from inspiring English sources

The recompense is limited to the original capital.

The recompense and the ruling on repair costs follow an investigation by the state's Public Service Commission into the failure of the electrical network in Long Island City during a period in July 2006, which affected an estimated 174,000 customers.

The recompense: a tie with sumptuous loft, an elegant knot and a supple hand.

The recompense for pain is truly freeing self-forgetful humility.

"The recompense of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and do mischief in the land is only that they shall be killed or crucified or their hands and their feet be cut off from opposite sides, or be exiled from the land".

Joy and beer are the recompense.

Eakins invented American empiricism--his subject became failure and the recompenses of failure.

If a wild animal kills livestock, the department recompenses the affected family.

On the other side of the political fence there are those who embrace the "fair recompense for work done" ethos; ie, what you get out of the country's pot depends on what you put in.

His great rival, William Henry Seward, Lincoln's secretary of state, also turned up the heat, demanding the Bahamas in recompense for the Alabama's depredations, although he had further designs on Canada, as so many Americans did.

Recent examples from the Daily Press of this Useful Talent in Action, and the Consequent Recompense.