Sentence examples for demanded recompense from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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

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.

Further boo-hooery was afoot in Emmerdale, where the revelation that Val is HIV positive was all but trounced in the glum stakes by news that Betty Eagleton had discovered a hair on her muffin ("I demand recompense").

They should be about gathering people to help you celebrate your relationship, rather than doing everything at such a huge expense and demanding recompense in the form of gifts.

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.

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