Sentence examples for won compensation from from inspiring English sources

The US aviation lawyer Jerry Skinner, who won compensation from Libya for victims of the 1988 Lockerbie disaster, is leading the 3500-page claim.

He won compensation from police after a senior officer joked that he was "the Met's very own serial killer" at a drinks function.

In 2006 Long won compensation from Scotland Yard after he met the then deputy assistant commissioner Sue Akers at a police leaving drinks.

Only this month a gay man, David Cary, won compensation from the Met after a nine-year battle over its failure to investigate homophobic abuse claims against him.

A woman who said she adhered to the Wiccan tradition of ancient, nature-based beliefs won compensation from the Sikh managers of the small shop where she worked because they failed to show respect for her convictions.

To present their case, they have hired a firm of London lawyers that this year won compensation from Britain for the torture of Kenyans under British colonial rule in the 1950s.

Efforts to win compensation from Japan through its court system were unsuccessful.

A lower court, acting at the request of the State Department, previously blocked the hostages' effort to win compensation from Iran, holding that the agreement under which they were released barred such claims.

Ministers are set to meet the families of IRA bomb victims within weeks, before a fresh push to win compensation from Libya over that country's role in smuggling explosives to Northern Ireland during the Troubles.

But don't despair completely as you are now in a strong position to win compensation from the tour operator if your holiday doesn't live up to the brochure description.

A jury cleared him of the charge and he went on to win compensation from West Yorkshire Police.