Sentence examples for the redressing of from inspiring English sources

Distress, in law, process that enables a person to seize and detain from a wrongdoer some chattel, or item of personal property, as a pledge for the redressing of an injury, the performance of a duty, or the satisfaction of a demand.

According to the Supreme Court, "redress of grievances" is to be construed broadly: it includes not solely appeals by the public to the government for the redressing of a grievance in the traditional sense, but also, petitions on behalf of private interests seeking personal gain.

A collection of his lectures at Oxford was published as The Redress of Poetry (1995).

But the incident hastened the redress of the miners' grievances and gave colonial radicals symbols and martyrs.

Rojas was a populist leader who supported citizens' demands for the redress of grievances against the elite.

At first, petitions to the crown appear to have been for the redress of private and local grievances.

A broadly similar appraisal can be made with respect to the redress of specific threats that emerge as unintended consequences of the market system.

Other squatters have a string of more recent complaints, for the redress of which they say the government has given them little more than empty promises.

He was professor of poetry at Oxford from 1989 to 1994 and the resulting lectures were collected as The Redress of Poetry in 1995.

Instead of the redresses of rage or reverie, the escapes of poetry or prayer, we get this: One pleasant memory of that stove remains.

The Redress of Poetry, focusing on other Irish legends including Wilde and Yeats, is a poetic tour de force and an excellent critical work in its own right.