Sentence examples for and compensations from inspiring English sources

Life with the landlord has its own particular complications and compensations.

"With the signature of the accord, which commits Chevron to unprecedented measures to prevent new incidents and compensations for the spill in the Frade Field, the two lawsuits could be resolved," the prosecutor's office said.

They also allocated set-asides for professionals (two hundred pesos for each surgeon, a hundred for each carpenter), incentive payments (fifty to anyone who captured a Spanish flag, five to anyone who threw a grenade into a fort), and compensations for injury (a hundred for a lost eye, fifteen hundred for two legs).

It's a point she makes early in Somewhere Towards the End, her new book about the losses, indignities and compensations of old age: how important appearance still is, if only to oneself; not to risk, say, scarlet lipstick, which will run into mouth wrinkles and make a woman look, as she observes of an old friend with not-quite-cruel accuracy, like a "vampire bat disturbed mid-dinner".

In "Three Women," a little-known radio verse play about the agonies and compensations of motherhood that Plath wrote in 1962 (less than a year before asphyxiating herself in a gas oven at the age of 30), she depicts the act of birth as an utter redefinition of the self: "What did my fingers do before they held him?" Self proves slippery here in other ways too.

We show under which circumstances cost-sharing and compensations emerge as incentive devices.

Turkey demanded an apology and compensation.

Right and left have feuded over ownership and compensation.

Turkey has demanded an apology and compensation; Israel has refused.

Shopkeepers say they need financial help and compensation.

As of Monday, 890,000 pension and compensation claims were pending.