Sentence examples for recompense it from inspiring English sources

Sometimes character is its own recompense: it is, perhaps, just that Rumsfeld knows how history will judge him relative to the 41st president of the United States.

But it feared that the DWP would refuse to recompense it for payments ruled illegal.

While we are obligated to some extent to sacrifice some part of our welfare to benefit others without any expectation of recompense, it is not possible in the abstract to fix a definite limit on how far this duty extends.

And the injury lawyers assure them that if you don't they will get recompense for it".

Their counter argument is that, as it stands, their hard work is being ripped off because they are not being fairly recompensed for it.

One need not be a political ideologue, he says, to believe that people have quantifiable value and deserve to be recompensed for it.

It will gain a fixed-line arm, but that is no recompense for what it will give up: its lock on the massive mobile market, encompassing two-thirds of Chinese customers and an even higher share of new subscribers.

The goal is recognition, recompense and then, it's hoped, mansions, Pennines of cocaine and adulation, especially the kind with benefits.

The government justifies it as recompense for vaguely defined bad behaviour; the banks praise it as a simple solution.All this is no doubt encouraging for Mr Greenberg.

The proposed sum falls well short of the £76m a year for 30 years that Ros Altmann, a specialist on pensions, reckons it would take to compensate all of the aggrieved members of wound-up schemes.The government is not, it insists, providing "compensation", which would imply full recompense for a harm it had caused.

"When it engages in conduct that injures people, it pays recompense for that.