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restitution

[res-ti-too-shuhn, -tyoo-] / ˌrɛs tɪˈtu ʃən, -ˈtju- /


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Today, his commutations routinely cancel a recipient’s prison sentence “with no further fines, restitution, probation or other conditions.”

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

Utilities, regulators and lawmakers are grappling with how much money to invest to prevent fires—and how to make restitution when their equipment sparks a blaze.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

While some of those who have lost their jobs have been reinstated or received restitution - sometimes in the millions - others like Bourguet have had to rebuild from scratch.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Baum and other heirs, meanwhile, spent years navigating complex restitution claims for expropriated properties and assets.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

With delight, our orchestra played our first concert after the restitution of meat.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

"It must be ensured that there is also a state-of-the-art procedure for future private restitutions."

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2024

Under the court settlement, precious metals dealer Argent Asset Group and First State Depository Company, which were both owned by Mr Higgins, were ordered to make restitutions of $112.7m and pay a penalty of $33m.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2023

Hicks, who spoke alongside Osanna at the restitution conference, has argued that anthropological museums today must now become the public spaces to debate problematic collections, while permitting also case-by-case restitutions.

From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2023

It has also undertaken two high-profile restitutions from its colonial past: In 2005, Italy returned to Ethiopia the massive, 160-ton Axum Obelisk, which Mussolini ordered sent to Rome in 1937 after his troops overran Ethiopia.

From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2023

He advises that the amount of such Page 20collections should be reduced, and that the Spaniards should not be too heavily mulcted for the restitutions which should be made to the Indians.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 07 of 55 1588-1591 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson




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