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Gains from stock transfers and dividends are taxed at a flat rate of 20%, which Kishida has criticized as a source of inequality and in need of redress, but income tax is already peaking at 55%.

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One is better use of class or group actions, otherwise known as collective redress actions.

We will not rest until the women who suffered medical abuse at Irwin receive a measure of redress and compensation.

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By their rationale, any redress from racial injustices visited upon those persons, including slavery, should be the obligation of the former colonizers in those lands, not the government of the United States.

That leaves civil lawsuits as victims’ primary route for seeking legal redress and financial compensation when a police encounter goes wrong.

So, what kind of redress might work best for this specific expression of Sunni marginalization and dispossession?

But it stops short of advancing economic redress and opportunity.

Parents of children with disabilities should not face a unique burden to redress their wrongs.

The office should not be able to treat a matter of such importance with such negligence without any redress.

Increased male enrollment in clinical trials might redress another issue, too: awareness.

The party seeking redress, must have been deceived, and also injured by the deceit in order to recover.

It is true that the damages one may recover, however great, may be an inadequate redress, yet it is the best the law can do.

Another injury for which the law furnishes redress is that affecting reputation and character.

Some rioting followed on the rejection of the bill, and the masters promised redress, but soon broke their word.

While every other colony was bidding defiance to Britain, this alone submissively applied to her for redress of grievances.

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On this page you'll find 158 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to redress, such as: amends, atonement, indemnity, rectification, remedy, and reparation.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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