Sentence examples for compensate someone from inspiring English sources

The payment represents Maryland's largest to compensate someone wrongly convicted and imprisoned.

"Severance traditionally is paid to compensate someone who lost a job through no fault of their own".

As an example, consider a corporate law firm whose clients demand attention at all hours, as opposed to the general counsel's office at a college; the firm might have an incentive to compensate someone willing to work eighty hours per week more than double what the college would pay a lawyer who works forty hours.

The malpractice measure would make it harder to seek compensation for noneconomic damages such as pain and suffering and would limit awards to $250,000, which is far too little to compensate someone who is paralyzed or blinded for life by medical negligence.

If, however, our baby had been born in New York, where we live and where it is illegal to compensate someone for surrogacy, we would have had to adopt our biological child from Cathy, the woman who carried our child, and her husband.

Winners might voluntarily compensate losers, but the point of being a winner is to win, not to compensate someone else!

(The irony of the word "reimbursement" is not lost on those in healthcare. Strictly, it means compensating someone for an expense. If that is true, why are they reducing the pay-back when the expenses are going up?!).

But the truth, according to many critics, is that no suffering and no punishment of any duration could in and of itself compensate for someone's wrongdoing.

'Did I do something wrong?' 'No.' 'Does someone not like me?' 'No.' The bottom line was he was a highly compensated person we could do without".

"They are making it virtually impossible for anyone to be compensated unless someone else is convicted of the crime.

Nealon's lawyer, Mark Newby, believes that the Ministry of Justice is now making it virtually impossible for anyone to be compensated unless someone else is convicted of the crime.