Sentence examples for recompense the from inspiring English sources

While Mainichi delicately called the promise of aid "recompense," the conservative Sankei Shimbun called it "ransom".

In recompense, the army give him a big hand – literally, as a replacement for his hook.

Jackson also said he had given S. F. B. Morse, without recompense, the idea for the telegraph.

Whatever taxes and jobs are supposedly dependent on London's banks, it cannot recompense the devastating damage their practices have done to the British economy.

But, in recompense, the writers of these introductions show refreshing humility: they know they're in the presence of a literary monument, one that has weathered time and fashion.

For a moment it seemed the recompense the younger Mr. Goldin hungered for would yet again elude him; that "Wonderful World" would go the way of so many previous projects.

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.

There's a paradox, of course, since the poems that provide the recompense are the very ones that turn your private possessions into images that are - as Yeats once said - "all on show".

The recompense and the ruling on repair costs follow an investigation by the state's Public Service Commission into the failure of the electrical network in Long Island City during a period in July 2006, which affected an estimated 174,000 customers.

The BBC's Ross Hawkins says that this payment does not replace the recompense pledged by the security firm to the police and the military.

If a wild animal kills livestock, the department recompenses the affected family.