Recompense Sentence Examples

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  • Refusing all honours and recompense, he prepared to return to Italy upon receiving news of the incipient revolutionary movement.

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  • Where such mistakes are in your favor, we do not seek any recompense.

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  • I would be happy to provide some payment to a dog charity in recompense for any time given to the project.

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  • Sir Robert returned to Brampton Bryan and was able to claim recompense for damage done to the castle.

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  • And you have hurt others - should they receive full recompense from you?

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  • So finally I get some recompense - shares in the new plc.

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  • Likewise if there's a defect with the print we offer recompense.

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  • Probably the honours which it brought with it were sufficient recompense.

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  • As a recompense, he was nominated archbishop of Toulouse (May 28, 1652), but had to wait for the bulls of investiture till the 23rd of March 1654.

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  • His real recompense was the assurance of the prosperity and the tranquillity of his country in the future, and the reconciliation of the nation and its sovereign.

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  • Authors and performers will demand fair recompense for creating intellectual property which is distributed via electronic networks.

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  • The walk through Parson's Bridge and views from the cairn itself provide ample recompense for the exertions!

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  • He should look upon his accomplished tasks as of inherent dignity independent of the monetary recompense to be received.

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  • The retention of a book (even a costly book) is hardly adequate recompense for the time spent on composing a proper review.

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  • The only way of making complaints hurt companies is to insist on financial recompense.

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  • Compensation is paid to provide fair recompense to farmers who have animals slaughtered at our behest.

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  • If goods are damaged or not saleable as new, Dolphin Music reserves the right to seek recompense.

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  • The new shift may only be worked by volunteers who are to receive 1,000 Austrian schillings or work a four day week in recompense.

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  • In the following spring, Isabella was awarded seisin of the stannaries of Devon, apparently in partial recompense.

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  • Popular enthusiasm induced the Conservative Minghetti cabinet to propose that a sum of 40,000 with an annual pension of 2000 be conferred upon him as a recompense for his services, but the proposal, though adopted by parliament (27th May 1875), was indignantly refused by Garibaldi.

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  • Expelled from Antioch, the obstinate Raymund endeavoured to recompense himself in the south (where indeed he subsequently created the county of Tripoli); and from February to May 1099 he occupied himself with the siege of Arca, to the N.E.

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  • Likewise if there 's a defect with the print we offer recompense.

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  • The walk through Parson 's Bridge and views from the cairn itself provide ample recompense for the exertions !

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  • This, of course, is not an acceptable recompense for the loss of a section of a right of way.

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  • The competitors should offer treats of beer at first, and then curry, in recompense for major services provided.

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  • Before you go charging into a dealership demanding recompense, it is important that you research the specific laws where you live.

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  • Donations - While the site may be free, it's nice to have recompense for your hard work - taking donations is a way to let members say "thanks."

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  • After the Toledo War (see Toledo, Omo), to recompense Michigan for her losses to Ohio the northern peninsula, geographically a part of the Wisconsin region, was given to Michigan.

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  • If you present a manufacturer with your state's lemon laws after a number of fixes have been made, there is a chance that you will get recompense without having to take things to a legal arena.

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  • The jealousy of France and the impatience of Queen Christina were the chief causes of the inadequacy of her final recompense.

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  • His recompense for this important service was the government of the Milanese, of which he took possession with great pomp on the 16th of April 1707.

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  • Prussia, while satisfied at the fall of the temporal power, seemed to fear lest Italy might recompense the absence of French opposition to the occupation of Rome by armed intervention in favor of France.

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  • In recompense for his services, he seems to have been appointed archbishop of Milan, while his collaborator, John of Jandun, obtained from Louis of Bavaria the bishopric of Ferrara.

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  • Immediately after an armistice had been arranged, Benedetti, at the orders of the French government, demanded as recompense a large tract of German territory on the left bank of the Rhine.

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  • Though the individual might perish amid the disorders of this world, he would not fail, apocalyptic taught, to attain through resurrection the recompense that was his due in the Messianic kingdom or in heaven itself.

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  • The child of the illegitmate union died; the second was called Jedidiah ("beloved of Yah [weh]") or Shelomoh (the idea of requital or recompense may be implied); according to 1 Chron.

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  • In the opinion of the people he was now regarded as the embodiment of all legal virtue; his health was toasted at the dinners of the Whigs amid rounds of applause, and, in recompense for the loss of his seat in parliament, he was returned by Lord Clive for his pocket-borough of Bishop's Castle, in Shropshire, in January 1770.

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  • Its original objects were almost forgotten and it was continued, mainly to further the ambitions of France, thus being a renewal of the great fight between the houses of Habsburg and of Bourbon, and to secure for Sweden some recompense for the efforts which she had put forward.

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  • Like other Egyptian sultans he made considerable use of the Assassins, 124 of whom were sent by him into Persia to execute Kara Sonkor, at one time governor of Damascus, and one of the murderers of Malik al-Ashraf; but they were all outwitted by the exile, who was finally poisoned by the Ilkhan in recompense for a similar service rendered by the Egyptian sultan.

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  • After he left America his life was attainted, and his property, valued at £40,000, was confiscated by the Pennsylvania Assembly, a loss for which he received a partial recompense in the form of a small parliamentary pension.

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  • An important step in its revival seemed to be made in the constitution of 1868, which forbade any private recompense for instruction in the public schools and appropriated one-fifth of the state's revenue to common schools.

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  • A particular tendency to arrange history according to a mechanical rule appears in the constant endeavour to show that recompense and retribution followed immediately on good or bad conduct, and especially on obedience or disobedience to prophetic advice.

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  • Ashmole cites authorities for the contention that knighthood ennobles, insomuch that whosoever is a knight it necessarily follows that he is also a gentleman; " for, when a king gives the dignity to an ignoble person whose merit he would thereby recompense, he is understood to have conferred whatsoever is requisite for the completing of that which he bestows."

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  • In ethics Gioja follows Bentham generally, and his large treatise Del merito e delle recompense (1818) is a clear and systematic view of social ethics from the utilitarian principle.

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