Sentence examples for redemption act from inspiring English sources

In early 1875, Congress passed the Specie Redemption Act, allowing the Treasury to pay out silver coins in exchange for paper currency.

Although he included Pollock's opinions as part of his annual report, Treasury Secretary George S. Boutwell asked Congress to pass a redemption act, and it did so on March 3, 1871, allowing for the redemption of minor coinage in lots of not less than $20.

O-T Fagbenle (superb in the National Theatre's recent revival of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom) equally relishes the complexity of Felix, a laddish chancer whose moment of redemption – an act of kindness to another Londoner – results in violence at the hands of a young black man who is allowed no exculpation.

The film's ancillary theme is that even the most evil individuals can find redemption through acts of resistance to tyranny.

Is memoir writing an attempt at redemption, or an act of revenge?

There is no redemption in the act, however, only confirmation of futility.

And his shows with the E Street Band embody a truth at the heart of redemption: when people act together in concert, amazing things can happen.

Moynihan Station offers a rare chance at civic redemption for that act of urbanicide in 1963, when the original Penn Station fell to the wrecker's ball, forcing millions to enter our city through a hole under a basketball court.

Third-act redemption is inevitable.

In contrast, Bahrani said, Hollywood wish-fulfillment tales — or the faux-independent dramas of adversity followed by third-act redemption — did not strike him as hopeful at all.

Thus did "Sweet Smell" first epitomize what we know today as "edge": the knowingness, combined with the fact that Falco and Hunsecker are conniving, sociopathic creeps who get hardly any comeuppance and achieve no third-act redemption.