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"offer restitution" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to indicate when an apology is not enough and the offending party must take action to resolve the situation. For example, "The company sent a public apology, but the affected families demanded that they also offer restitution for their losses."
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Unlike other East European countries and the Baltic states, Russia did not offer restitution of property after the collapse of Communism.
(A ballot measure in Alaska that would legalize marijuana and offer restitution to those who have served prison time for using it faces stiff opposition).
"And when they failed, as they have done, they did not admit it, they did not apologise, they did not offer restitution.
Cory Booker has proposed giving a savings bond to every American newborn, and has introduced a bill that would legalize marijuana at the federal level, expunge marijuana-related convictions, and offer restitution to communities affected by the drug war.
It allows the government to extract swift penalties from white-collar criminals and offer restitution to victims of fraud; since 2012, the Department of Justice has turned over more than $1.5 billion in forfeited assets to four hundred thousand crime victims, often in cases of corporate criminality.
As a practicing family physician for 36 years, I have come to believe in the seven essential R's of an apology: it should be Rapid (as in right away when the error is discovered), show true Remorse, Recognize explicitly the error, accept Responsibility, acknowledge the Repercussions for the patient, offer Restitution or repair, and close with a Repetition of the opening words: I'm sorry.
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If customer pictures are damaged or lost, DigMyPics offers restitution up to $100.
Arab governments have never admitted committing mass violations of Jewish human and civil rights, much less apologised or offered restitution.
It was only after Joshua Nkomo's death last year that he finally offered restitution for the mass killings in Matabeleland which occurred after independence in 1980.
This pattern of harassment was acknowledged recently when Gov. Pedro J. Rossello, of the pro-statehood New Progressive Party, publicly apologized and offered restitution of up to $6,000 each to thousands of Puerto Rican "independentistas" and others who were spied on as "subversives" by a police intelligence unit starting in the late 1940's.
C1 Winnick Offers Restitution Gary Winnick, chairman of Global Crossing, who made $734 million from the company's stock before the shares became worthless, said he would write a check for $25 million to cover part of the retirement money several thousand employees lost when the stock collapsed.
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