Sentence examples for material reparations from inspiring English sources

Today, nearly any group or nation with violence in its past has constructed or is planning a memorial museum as a mechanism for confronting past trauma, often together with truth commissions, trials, and/or other symbolic or material reparations.

Commentators who defend the conciliatory power of material reparations frequently interpret such payments as acknowledgements of responsibility, expressions of respect for the moral status of the victims, acts of remorse or caring, evidence of increased trustworthiness or a recommitment to the norms of justice (Thompson 2002, Brooks 2004, Gray 2010, Walker 2010).

Duff can try to take that into account by saying that certain formalities in punishment, including both censure and the taking on of burdens beyond those of making material reparations, are necessary to repair the social damage done by a crime.

After working for 15 years on reparations for victims in over 50 countries, ICTJ has found that many victims feel that an apology unaccompanied by other forms of reparation does not constitute justice, even as material reparations, such as compensation, without a meaningful acknowledgement of responsibility also falls short.

A little more compromise by the rebels, regarding material reparation for victims and justice.

It is no such thing: in exchange for a full confession of crimes committed and material reparation of damages, guerrilla members will receive amnesty – except in the case of international crimes, which will result in what the text of the agreements has called "effective restrictions of freedom".

Empirically it happens to be the case that victims of crime are more concerned about emotional than material reparation (Strang, 2003).

Factitious disorders must be differentiated from malingering; an important clue for this is that malingering is based on a real individual motivation (avoiding work, military or social duty, prison; obtaining material recompense, cost reparation, drugs), while patients suffering from factitia need medical care and support, claiming attention from medical staff and members of their own families.

"Blackmail" and "extortion" are some of the politer words that Swiss bankers muttered after the first claims against their banks.Yet this still leaves a swathe of claims that deal not with material assets but with reparation, more broadly defined.

In Paris Baruch was the American representative on Reparations, Raw Materials, the Economic Commission, and a member of the Supreme Economic Council.

The report spoke of the "profound disillusionment" that the Mendes family suffered and recommended that the government immediately consider the posthumous reinstatement of De Sousa Mendes and the "reparation of damages, material and moral, which were unjustly caused by the ministry for foreign affairs". Today there are conflicting opinions about why those recommendations were not followed.