Sentence examples for i reparations from inspiring English sources
After World War I, reparations to the Allied Powers were required of Germany by the Treaty of Versailles.
Founded in 1930 to handle Germany's World War I reparations payments, the bank now is a clearinghouse for 130 central banks and other financial institutions around the world.
The first comes from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), which was created in 1930 to handle reparations payments from World War I — reparations that were soon canceled.
It's worth noting that less than a decade after the fall of the Nazis, the lingering legacy of the World War I reparations was settled quickly and with a minimum of fuss.
In LeBor's telling, the B.I.S., an obscure "bank for central banks" set up in Basel, Switzerland, in 1930 to facilitate World War I reparations payments from Germany, has been a critical, if secretive, actor in the global economy for more than 80 years.
If 50percentt of Iraq's future export income is diverted to paying down the debt -- more than three times the percentage extracted for German World War I reparations -- it would take more than 35 years to pay off current obligations fully, even after allowing for reasonable growth in oil exports.
Young Plan, (1929), second renegotiation of Germany's World War I reparation payments.
I want reparations," he says.
Another sensible question might be whether Americans as a whole would be better off if they had confidence that the government would protect them from being singled out for persecution on the basis of their membership in some racial, religious or gender group, and would compensate them if such persecution did occur.I think reparations for African-Americans are a bad idea.
"I think reparations is the right word, in my view it's what's being sought, on issues like slavery or war reparations, historically they have a very difficult time occurring".
