recompense

Because China values its access to America’s capital markets, now is the time to seek recompense for American bondholders.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

It was Ghana that tabled the UN resolution, and in June, a summit on reparations was held in its capital, Accra, with delegates from around 80 countries, who concluded that recompense was long overdue.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

And without legal recompense, the only check to this power appears to be other armed men.

From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2026

Grandparents have demanded money as recompense for having spent years caring for a grandson taken in battle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025

Did it feel as bad as having some fifty thousand books annihilated with no recompense?

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

These works are among the great recompenses that experience offers us.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 19, 2014

“The Case for Reparations” is deeply focused on economic injuries and recompenses.

From Washington Post

BAMBABEF: Take care; in those towns you will find philosophers who will deny you both your pains and your recompenses.

From Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire

Although recompenses and punishments may be only secondary means by which men may be led to do good and avoid evil, this should not be their essential office nor their real idea.

From Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Paul Janet

It is but a classic echo of the old Hebraic moral axiom that "the Lord God of recompenses shall surely requite."

From The Case of Edith Cavell A Study of the Rights of Non-Combatants by James M. (James Montgomery) Beck

"Currently there isn't any effective way for creators to be recompensed when their work is downloaded and stored by audiences," he said.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2021

Kennedy wasn’t extorted off the bench or recompensed for his vacancy.

From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2018

One need not be a political ideologue, he says, to believe that people have quantifiable value and deserve to be recompensed for it.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2013

Jenkins said he believes the creditors were never fully recompensed, although St John Ambulance says its debt was recouped via advertising at the ground.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2013

When the negotiations were concluded, the gods and Skadi had agreed that she would be recompensed for her father’s death in three ways.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

Still, Treyzon said that does not deter his suit from examining the platform’s value in recompensing class-action members.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2019

The IRS seized Nelson’s belongings in 1991 to start recompensing the approximate $32m he owed in taxes at the time.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2015

Indeed, if it hadn't been for the recompensing features, Mary's enthusiasm would probably have become chilled by experience, and dreams have come to nothing.

From Mary Minds Her Business by George Weston

"I thought it was better to have able counsel; and as I know I have the means of recompensing him, the opportunity was lucky."

From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever

In order to make a stronger impression, he then particularizes the general threatening, showing how God's recompensing justice manifests itself in the fate of the individual apostate kings.

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg