Sentence examples for act of redress from inspiring English sources

In particular, it was the inadequate "representation of Jewish lives" by other German historians that compelled him, as an act of redress, "to write about these lives in a different sort of way".

(It's not as if people are furiously protesting the decline of large carnivores every day). Tending animals until they are fit to be returned to the wild feels like an act of resistance, redress, even redemption.

In traditional presentations of Act IV, Scene 1 of "Merchant" Portia, disguised as a male lawyer to rescue a man under threat of death, emerges as an avenging angel; Shylock, viciously poised to kill an enemy in an act of legal redress, is usually the vanquished villain or, in more fashionable contemporary readings, the Jewish victim of a Christian social order reasserting itself.

In order to maintain homeostasis; cells, tissues and organisms adapt to first cope with the lack of oxygen and then act to redress the underlying cause [ 3].

The bottom layer defines the composition of the community, how it is organised, and its capacity to act to redress inequalities.

EPA rules provide an exceedingly generous amount of time to achieve this goal by 2064, which is just 13 years shy of a century after Congress acted to redress hazy polluted skies over our parks.

Section 1 of the 1871 Act, like § 17 of the 1870 Act, provided redress only for deprivations of rights under color of state law.

Nature acts to redress an imbalance that has become dangerous.

"This Act may be cited as the 'Judicial Redress Act of 2015'.

U. S. v. Rhodes (1866), one of the first Thirteenth Amendment cases, tested the Constitutionality of provisions in the Civil Rights Act of 1866 that granted blacks redress in the federal courts.

Within the Canadian context, there are several groups seeking some form of redress and reparations for historical acts of injustices brought against their ancestors, and in some cases survivors, by governments in Canada.