Sentence examples for derisory compensation from inspiring English sources
Roma fixes the court, and the family face eviction, eased by derisory compensation.
Finally, in April 2006, the then home secretary Charles Clarke announced further changes to the statutory scheme, drawing comparisons with the often derisory compensation offered to victims of crime.
It is less than a year since the climbing season was ended by a strike after the Nepali government, which charges climbers thousands of dollars, offered derisory compensation to the families of 16 sherpas who had died in an avalanche.
It "was in truth the sole pleasure, the sole objective of human existence, and all other pleasures — whether associated with rich food, tobacco, alcohol or drugs — were only derisory and desperate compensations, mini-suicides that did not have the courage to speak their name, attempts to speed up the destruction of a body that no longer had access to the one real pleasure".
But Southwark council are currently trying to force home owners from the neighbouring 2,700 home Aylesbury Estate, again offering derisory amounts for London properties in the way of compensation.
And upfront compensation to local farmers for use of their land is derisory: often just a few months of income for agreeing to a 100-year lease".The risks associated with such investments are immense," concludes the World Bank.
Frankly, the compensation of $470m paid by Union Carbide in 1991 to the victims of the disaster was derisory (as was, in the opinion of many, the reaction of the Indian authorities).
Zubia wore a derisory expression.
In Colorado and Minnesota, turnouts were derisory.
