Sentence examples for reparations package from inspiring English sources

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and several Chicago aldermen are offering what they call a reparations package for the victims of torture under the city's former police commander, Jon Burge.

In May, the City Council approved a $5.5 million reparations package for many of the some one hundred men, most of them African-American from the city's South Side, who were tortured — electric shocks, beatings, smotherings with typewriter covers, and simulated Russian roulette — by the police commander Jon Burge.

Therapy should really be a part of our reparations package.

In 1865, the original reparations package, the so-called "40 Acres and a Mule," was issued.

To move the reparations package forward, the city council finance committee must appropriate the money before a vote on the full resolution next month.

After decades of denial, Chicago is officially coming to terms with its notorious history of police torture by creating an unprecedented reparations package for survivors.

Indeed, he now concludes that the stranded Pakistanis would be better off as naturalized Bangladeshis, especially if they can negotiate a "package deal" with reparations for lost property.

Hemophiliacs infected with the virus that causes AIDS by blood products provided by state-run health services in the 1980's have begun a legal case to overturn a 1991 compensation package and get more reparations.

The euro rescue packages now being mooted are eerily reminiscent of the reparations imposed so disastrously on Germany after the first world war.

Larry E. Adair, speaker of the State House of Representatives, said, "I think everyone is going to proceed with caution on reparations, adding "We've not really had a formal request saying what the total package would be, and until we know what we're being asked to consider, we're taking a 'wait and see' attitude".

After World War II, Sharon Springs got a second wind from the West German government, which paid medical care reparations to Holocaust survivors, holding that therapeutic spa vacations were a legitimate part of the medical package.