Sentence examples for demand reparation from inspiring English sources

Some 25,000 of their victims have dared come forward to demand reparation.

Our agreement does not imply that we also agree that the Ps cannot demand reparation from the Qs for the damages that the Qs earlier wrongly caused them.

But it does not follow that he cannot demand reparation from the thief for the losses he suffered as a result of the theft of his car.

Perhaps; but just because it would be wrong of him to demand restitution, it does not follow that it would be wrong of him to demand reparation; that his rights to reparation are somehow "superseded".

Third that if present day African Americans demand reparation for the harms that the transgressions of slavery caused them, then since reparation implies compensation they demand to be made no worse off than they would have been had the transgressions of slavery never occurred.

See articleThe leaders of 15 Caribbean states pushed ahead with plans to demand reparations from European countries for their part in the slave trade.

In an innovation, the tribunal is including victims as civil parties whose lawyers have the right to question witnesses and demand reparations.

After Queen Pomare IV deported two French Roman Catholic missionary priests in 1836, the French dispatched a warship in 1842 to demand reparations and to arrange a French protectorate.

Local pressure group, Jubilee, has criticised Barclays for supporting the government during the apartheid years and filed legal proceedings in the US to demand reparations.

Perhaps they will demand reparations equivalent to this figure, but it is conservative: it reflects only the price of the slaves, and tells us nothing of the total value they produced during their lifetimes, nor of the trauma they endured, nor of the hundreds of thousands of slaves who worked and died during the centuries before 1834.

Its central demand - reparations for the child migrants within months - requires immediate government action.