Sentence examples for reparations of from inspiring English sources
Reparations of this sort are possible and could be made politically acceptable to many Israelis.
However, the government under Mr. Mandela's successor, Thabo Mbeki, citing budget difficulties, proposed reparations of approximately $400 per victim.
He supports affirmative action, which, after all, is based on the recognition that America owes itself reparations of a kind.
Silvio Berlusconi agreed to pay reparations of five billion dollars for the harm his country had inflicted on Libya; in a meeting of the Arab League in Surt, he kissed Qaddafi's hands.
By way of comparison, Saddam Hussein's Iraq was ordered to pay reparations of $52 billion $88 billionn in today's money) for invading Kuwait.One reason why a settlement has proved elusive is that the case is so complex.
This consists of $90 billion in conventional foreign debt (mostly for arms purchases from Russia, China, France and Germany), $60 billion in pending contracts, and war reparations of $200 billion for Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
The United States also objected to an apology for slavery and any mention of reparations, fearful of lawsuits from black Americans.
A two-adult black family would receive an average reparation of about $35,000.
The Parliament in 1640 reversed these proceedings and ordered Bastwick a reparation of £5,000 out of the estates of the commissioners and lords who had sentenced him.
But the state government lacks the funds to increase the monthly dole or the one-time reparation of 75,000 rupees for the completely disabled.
The agency, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, also said in a written statement that the Chinese government should "provide for reparation of the harm caused" to Mr. Gao.
