"The recompense of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and do mischief in the land is only that they shall be killed or crucified or their hands and their feet be cut off from opposite sides, or be exiled from the land".
Saleemul Huq, the scientist whose work on loss and damage helped put the issue of recompense on the conference agenda, said: "Discussions were going well in a spirit of co-operation, but at the end of the session on loss and damage Australia put everything agreed into brackets, so the whole debate went to waste". Australia was accused of not taking the negotiations seriously.
Saleemul Huq, the scientist whose work on loss and damage helped put the issue of recompense on the conference agenda, said: "Discussions were going well in a spirit of co-operation, but at the end of the session on loss and damage Australia put everything agreed into brackets, so the whole debate went to waste".
However, the recompense of sitting among the trees eating a full English breakfast more than makes up for it.
Which is why Georgetown's act of recompense for the "original evil" of slavery comes at a propitious time.
It was not because of the miscarriage of justice or the way such public celebration suggested the degree to which black people felt estranged from, and brutalized by, the criminal-justice system and wanted, at the very least, some kind of crude recompense for the acquittal of the men who had beaten Rodney King three and a half years earlier.
This would not only recompense victims of the attacks but also spare America's airlines litigation costs, likely far to exceed their insurance cover.
I didn't buy the State of Israel being the recompense for the murder of European Jewry, recompense not being quite the right word, of course.
What followed were two days of meetings and conference calls that turned contentious at times, as officials with the Bloomberg administration insisted that the city receive some kind of recompense for the races and parlors it hosts.
He never wanted any kind of recompense for the discovery, but hoped maybe there might be a medal if it turns out he and his team really have found the debris that holds the key to the mystery of the disappeared Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
