Sentence examples for offered in compensation for from inspiring English sources

You may see the irony that the Sioux Nation, having put aside the $1bn offered in compensation for the original theft, is now trying to buy back the land we believe always belonged to us.

Rather than making a song and dance about how much aid we are sending countries where production has been decimated by rules serving rich-country interests, such money should be offered in compensation for harm done (most importantly, of course, the rules on protection, subsidies and quotas should be urgently changed).

Control group participants were recruited through agreements with cultural and civic associations to which free psycho-educational talks were offered in compensation for their participation in the study.

A payment of 300 Rupees (approximately £1.50) was offered in compensation for participants' time, at the end of the interview (compensatory payment was not mentioned in the information provided prior to the interview).

But if Loyola University is any indication, we're about to begin to figure out what the new New Orleans may offer in compensation for the old one that was washed away.

The United Nations lifted its sanctions after Libya acknowledged responsibility for the bombing and offered about $10 million in compensation for each of the 270 victims.

He could have chosen any number of stories as an illustration the one about the passengers from Edinburgh to Southampton whose nine-hour journey became a 15-hour crawl, for instance, or the Bradford businessman who was offered £7 ($10) in compensation for a journey from Blackpool to Halifax that took ten hours instead of two.

Monica Uddin, assistant professor at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan, notes that "the compensation offered in a for-profit scientific environment might be better, but the stability of the job itself particularly in the current economic climate might be less than what would be found in academia, at least for a tenure-track job".

General Motors is prepared to offer at least $1 million in compensation for each victim that died as a result of defective ignition switches in GM vehicles, reports The New York Times.

Nor can Alistair Darling do what Ken Clarke managed in late 1996, when he offered a small tax cut in compensation for the four years of fiscal austerity just endured.

No authorities in the Netherlands offered any compensation for our losses.