But the idea of asking nothing for it was Mr Bennett's alone".I felt in a way it's a recompense for the education I was given," the writer told The Economist.
Such excellence was recompense for the horrible feeling of letting themselves down in Tel Aviv.
For Mr. Wali, the expected trouncing of the religious parties on Monday is recompense.
Privileged access to Libyan oil, even if this is partly what the intervention was about, is unlikely to be recompense enough.
Just recompense may always be right, but is recompense?
Remember that what you want is recompense or resolution, and offending your reader will not accomplish that.
And for the children who survived, it is little recompense for being stricken with the disease and the loss of much of their childhood.
One need not be a political ideologue, he says, to believe that people have quantifiable value and deserve to be recompensed for it.
The cooperation argument depends on a short-term loss (such as keeping a promise that it is inconvenient to keep) being recompensed by a long-term gain (such as being trusted in future promises).
The occasional lazy descriptive sentence or foray into hotel-bedroom farce is recompensed by Schuster's vigorous supporting roster of problem-child players, skinflint team owners and M.B.A.-flaunting executives.
