Sentence examples for demand recompense for from inspiring English sources

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To complain about food being cold is one thing, but I'm not sure whether you're entitled to demand recompense for a meal that's a bit smaller than you're expecting, or a wine that you simply don't like, although many restaurants will change them to keep you happy.

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Climate change pits the industrialized world, which has the financial means to adapt to a hotter planet, against poor ones demanding recompense for a problem they did little to create.

Thus when the stock prices fell Little was forced into bankruptcy by margin calls, lenders demanding recompense for the fall in the value of the stocks.

The court heard how Mr Crossley used his law firm ACS: Law to demand money in recompense for alleged copyright infringements.

Devidasa's painting from around 1694 portrays Parvati catching Shiva cheating during a game played on a tiger skin; her outstretched hand demands recompense.

In 1969, John Lennon inserted a phrase from Chuck Berry in "Come Together", almost certainly as a tribute, but Berry's publisher was a Rottweiler and demanded recompense.

The World Association of Newspapers, meanwhile, accuses the Google guys of building their business “on the back of kleptomania,” demanding recompense.

Whatever the cause, the people, the players, immediately demanded recompense.

The war required mass mobilization; now those masses demanded recompense.

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.

She would be solicitous to the point of smothering, and then demand total obedience as just recompense for her care and toil.

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