The phrase "act of compensation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing reparation, restitution, or any form of recompense for a loss or injury.
Example: "The company issued an act of compensation to the affected employees after the layoffs."
Alternatives: "compensatory action" or "reparative measure".
If Hergatt's cooking can occasionally seem fussy — the menu references kinome, nashi pear, banyuls reduction, tatsoi, urfa spice, and wilted tetragonia, which turns out to be a sort of imported spinach — it's an understandable act of compensation.
They serve, the editors show, as both an expression of their creators' ideas and an act of compensation for and a criticism of the dull and often hard life at the institutions they trod.
Traditionally, full reconciliation combined this act of compensation with ceremonies known among the Dinka as "Achuiil" and among the Nuer as "Ca Keth Dek," typically involving the slaughter of a white bull to forge a relationship between the two parties (Howell 1954; Johnson 1986; Jok et al. 2004; Akuei and Jok 2010; Tiitmamer et al. 2016).
It's easy to hypothesize that this Palace was nothing more than a colossal act of compensation.
It's easy to hypothesise that this Palace was nothing more than a colossal act of compensation.
For those who carry out acts of symbolic compensation these acts make it possible to express attitudes toward the past victims attitudes that are constitutive of acts of compensation.
One interpretation relies on the following basic idea: the value of real compensation the rectification or compensation at which we would aim if only it were possible is imputed, at least in part, to the act of symbolic compensation (see Nozick 1993, chs. 1 and 2).
And yet, even with all of its academic mumbling, the book manifests considerable power as an act of furious compensation.
But the very act of finding compensation for a truly free life through consumption further closes down the space for real alternatives.
The imputation of the value of real compensation to the acts of symbolic compensation is partly based upon the expressive value of acts of symbolic compensation.
They are engaged in a collective act of over-compensation, frantically mouthing the prayers of the new religion now that the old one has been banished as heresy.
