Sentence examples for the compensation was from inspiring English sources

The government statement said that Venezuela has always been willing to compensate private interests for the nationalization of assets as long as the compensation was "fair and reasonable".

In the north, where land was poor, the price of land on which the compensation was based was unduly high; in effect, this served partly to compensate the landowners for the loss of their serfs and also for the loss of the share that they had previously enjoyed of the peasants' earnings from nonagricultural labour.

"The compensation was a mistake.

Victims had previously told the commission the compensation was inadequate.

It said the compensation was also justified by Viacom's performance.

After the compensation was paid by Britain, they left Basra.

Pentagon officials said the amount of the compensation was nonnegotiable.

"The compensation was a fraction of the effort involved," he said.

"If they could make a decision and the compensation was right I would go for it.

"The way the compensation was designed ensured that abuses would take place," he says.

Even in cases where compensating artists is the whole point, the compensation isn't much.