Sentence examples for reparation from high-quality English sources.

• There must be reparation made in such cases.

• Locke put a limit on the right to reparation.

• A state must make full reparation for any injury caused by an illegal act for which it is internationally responsible.

• Whatsoever act, if committed on any mansion-house, would be deemed Burglary,* shall be Burglary, if committed on any other house; and he who is guilty of Burglary, shall be condemned to hard labor four years in the public works, and shall make double reparation to the persons injured.

• Consequently restitution is not necessary for reparation.

• People do not have rights to reparation for the wrongful harms others suffer.

• Compensation is related to reparation and restitution but is not the same thing as either.

• Possibly the objection can be raised against the inheritance argument for black reparation.

Use reparation in a sentence.

• On April 27, 1921, this sum was fixed by the Reparation Commission at 132 billion gold marks, or about 31.5 billion dollars.

• Reparation, which mandates that an offender provide services to the victim or to the community, has gained in popularity in a number of jurisdictions.

• Therefore since the transgressions of slavery harm present day African Americans they have rights to reparation against those who committed those transgressions.

• In fact these governments committed another and quite distinct transgression against their black populations; they failed to make reparation to those populations.

• By meeting the reparation payments, for the reduction of which he fought as stubbornly as he did for removal of French troops from west of the Rhine, he hoped to gain…

• This does not make a right to compensation the same thing as a right to reparation since a right to reparation can only be generated by damages caused by wrongdoing.

• Locke’s claim is that the lawful conqueror has rights to reparation from the estates of those who unjustly waged war against him, though some part of these estates should be reserved for their wives and children.

• But Locke does not say that the lawful conqueror’s right to reparation is trumped by the children’s right to inheritance; on his account, it is the right to subsistence that trumps the right to reparation when the two rights conflict.

reparation sentence examples

• The other, if it makes it through the state Legislature, would create a task force to study and develop reparation proposals for the state’s African Americans, who have suffered lasting effects from injustices like slavery, Jim Crow laws, redlining, unequal education and mass incarceration.

• Two important objections against the inheritance argument are: first that it relies on the counterfactual claim that the freed people and their descendants would have held on to their reparation had they received it; and second that it demands that people make reparation for the injuries of a crime that they could not have committed.

• More recently non-state actors such as the Aborigines of Australia, the Maori of New Zealand, and the Native Americans of North America are demanding the return of their tribal lands from Europeans as reparation; Eastern Europeans dispossessed by socialist governments are demanding the return of their property as reparation; and African Americans are demanding reparation for the injuries of slavery and its aftermath.

• The inheritance argument for black reparation says that the freed people had rights to reparation for their injuries; that they held these rights against the slave holders and also against the state and federal government for failing in its duty to protect them from the slave holders; that these rights were never honored; and finally that they passed by the right of inheritance to present day African Americans who are their descendants and heirs.