Sentence examples for that recompense from inspiring English sources

Many IRS rulings in the past have (sensibly) held that recompense for a loss of liberty (like Japanese-Americans who were interned during World War II) is tax free.

On the rarest of occasions, Obama admitted in that White House briefing room, drone strikes even kill exceptional people (like us) who need to be attended to presidentially, whose deaths deserve apologies, whose lives are to be highlighted in special media accounts, and whose value is such that recompense is due to their families.

They decided that the recompense Coca-Cola offered did not make up for the discrimination they endured at the company, the firm said.

The irony here is that the recompense our country offered to Native Americans, albeit very slight, far exceeded any such efforts made on behalf of African Americans.

Jurors are far more able than lawyers, judges, economists or corporate executives to assess the cost of bad conduct on society and the recompense that victims should receive.

However it was quick to reassure customers that it would recompense people who may have lost out because of the meltdown.

But it was quick to reassure customers that it would recompense people who may have lost out because of the meltdown.

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 non-speaking extras weren't getting paid but were promised meals — a craft-services recompense that, in light of their usual chow-hall fare, was enticing enough on its own.

"Majid Movahedi committed a horrendous act which has ruined Ameneh Bahrami's life, and the state has a responsibility to bring him to justice and to ensure that Ameneh Bahrami receives recompense for the damage done to her," said Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa deputy director, Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui.

Labour's Denis MacShane, a cardholder himself, said his money was effectively being "confiscated" and said if someone's house had been taken by the state, that would get recompense.