Sentence examples for were restituted from inspiring English sources
verb
To restore (something) to its former condition.
Yet the legitimate injustices of colonisation cannot be undone even if every object in every museum were restituted.
In this paper, we evaluate the response of three different types of agrarian commons (forest, pasture and agriculture commons) from three different landscapes (Alps, Pannonia and Mediterranean) in the context of the legal framework in which the commons were restituted.
The results of this study were restituted to the population and the stakeholders.
In 1948, the portrait was restituted to Rosenberg who sold it shortly after.
In 1993, ownership was restituted to the Mullers' daughter, Eva Materna-Muller, who was living in England, and she put it up for sale.
Although the Russian parliament and museum directors have refused to cooperate, private property and artworks in parts of the former eastern bloc have begun to be restituted.
Seized by the Nazis on the eve of World War II and dispatched to the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, it was restituted to Bondy's widow, Elizabeth, in 1948.
It could also point to the long and painful history of African treasures being looted by colonisers for display in European museums, many of which have never been restituted.
"Land and houses are currently being restituted on a massive scale to either former owners or people who acquired property deeds, in a more or less legal fashion", notes Szreder on Warsaw.
It passed through the hands of two Swiss owners before being bought in 1973 by the Landesmuseum Wurttemberg in Stuttgart and was restituted to A.S. Drey's heirs last year.
What should be restituted?
