Recompense in a sentence

Affirmative action was at best a modest form of recompense for centuries of exploitation and exclusion — far short of the reparations more than three in four Black Americans.

Later, she’ll dispense with a sobbing Kerry in similarly dispassionate style, taking bitter pleasure in the knowledge that Logan’s assistant/mistress wasn’t clued into the inherent value of cash in hand over promises of future recompense.

Now just imagine the unending reward that Eglon received for just one single action, we who stand for the response of Amen Yehei Shmei Rabba, how much more so will be our recompense at the day of reckoning.

Unwilling to share her traumas without recompense, Cash initiates a barter: a tale for a tale.

Excellent amateur theatre is shown on the circuit by people who choose to do it because of the love of it, not for payment, or financial recompense, but simply because they want to be a part of telling a story.

If the collector gets even a fraction of the money back, they can turn a profit, while the provider gets some recompense without resorting to legal action.

May the Almighty augment your recompense, be kind in your misfortune, forgive the deceased, encourage you with endurance and give you peace.

She accumulated quite a collection of Native American art in recompense.

The Bill intends to introduce protections like assured hours, along with notice or recompense for cancelled work, potentially allowing shift workers to retain up to £600 each year.

Unfortunately in Britain it’s very hard to get recompense if you don’t have the resources or the courage to take it to court.

But the next day, the developer sent a far more expensive blouse in recompense.

The one who’s beloved ones or relatives die and endures patiently, Allah will also admit him to Paradise as a recompense of his patience.

With so much tax revenue leaving our island’s shores every week, it only makes sense that we on Islay are at least given some recompense in appropriate public spending.

Our disastrous colonial legacy – the destruction of wealth and communities – demands recompense, and we must also acknowledging the horrendous impact of military adventurism of more recent policy, particularly in Afghanistan and Iraq.

This does not surprise in a culture that celebrates celebrity, in which talented musicians, athletes, performers receive recompense far beyond what we might term the value of what they add to our society.

Farmers not only have to battle the increasing costs of capital, health care, fuel and machinery, they now have to give up land and profit without recompense.

Recompense, then, for all the work Southgate has put into preparing his team for exactly this denouement.

What recompense are the guilty parties making?

I bring with me the recompense I will give to each according to his deeds.

In 2009, Raúl Castro increased minimum pensions by 2 dollars, which he said was to recompense for those who have "dedicated a great part of their lives to working..