Sentence examples for moral reparation from inspiring English sources

This has all certainly brought a form of moral reparation and recognition of dignity.

When damages are awarded in such cases, they seem more like punishments that are intended to burden the wrongdoer, as a way of making moral reparation to the person wronged, than like an allocation of the costs of harm (see Duff 2001 94 966).

This is not just moral reparation -- though it certainly is that -- rather, a fundamental empowerment essential for creating fairer, stronger and safer societies across the continents.

Alfred L. Brophy, an Oklahoma City University law professor who researched the issue for the commission, said there was compelling legal and moral justification for reparations, even though the historical record was incomplete.

US president Obama, while acknowledging the moral dimension of reparations, is on the record as finding the concept politically untenable.

This talk of leaving the past behind sounded a bit rich, coming from someone who told Greece's parliament, two days before, that the country had a "moral obligation" to seek reparations from Germany for its actions during the Second World War, thereby raising the possibility that the Greek government might seize some German-owned assets.

Reparations, whatever their moral or theoretical merits, are about as likely politically as changing America's national anthem to "The Internationale".

Toby stays with Deary long after passion has subsided, mostly to make "reparations to the moral universe," and mulls over love's stages in his ubiquitous red-speckled notebooks.

Moreover, as one critic acidly observed, the goal of the program was not to offer reparations for the moral, constitutional, reputational, and economic wrongs done to Japanese-Americans, but to compensate them for lost "pots and pans".

If the United States truly detained individuals indefinitely without evidence, it has the moral responsibility to offer the detainees reparations for their pain and suffering.

They are, however, relegated to moral and collective (as opposed to financial) reparation.