Sentence examples for their recompense from inspiring English sources

The Tiananmen Square protesters are still waiting for their day in court, much less their recompense.

Their recompense lies in the knowledge that should they be attacked, they too will benefit from a collective response to that attack.

What's more, their supposed recompense — a free education — is by no means guaranteed.

The Commons did succeed in making some changes to the Court's procedure, however; in 1394 the King assented to their request that victorious defendants in the Court have their costs recompensed from the other side, and in 1341 the King, on their application, allowed the Lord Chancellor to send cases directly to the common law courts, to avoid the common law judges having to waste time travelling.

Perhaps the correct term should be "dead serfs": these workers have, without their knowledge and without recompense, leased to their corporate employer their living bodies as gambling chips.

Participants were paid a nominal attendance fee and travel expenses for each visit, and a small inconvenience fee to partly recompense their time for doing the auditory training.

If there is something representative about Toby, he is also a register of a contemporary sense of grievance, since the Seven Years' war brought many discharged soldiers on to the streets, allowed to display their wounds and beg in shoddy recompense for their sacrifice.

Not all crossed the ocean to better themselves and their families; many were forcibly carried here — their families torn apart, their social structures smashed, their languages suppressed — to labor without recompense for the benefit of their oppressors.

Devote their efforts to rebuilding the shattered country as some small recompense for their predecessors' part in destroying it?

They could swap tips on how to protect their assets from the zealous efforts of the courts to snatch recompense for their husbands' victims.

Matrimonial law generally assumes that women provide wifely services — rais- ing children, supporting their husbands' careers — out of love, and so are due no financial recompense for their efforts should the marriage go bad.