Sentences with phrase «as reparations»

Little good will come of the Green Climate Fund cash the United Nation says industrialized nations should transfer to kleptocratic rulers in poor countries as reparations for supposedly causing climate change.

They were taken to Moscow by the Red Army as reparations for the Soviet Union's war losses.

This intriguing show imagines a present - day USA in which African - Americans formed a nation - state after the Civil War as reparations for slavery.

After March 4, 2013, an International Arrest Warrant will be issued against these Defendants.The guilty verdict followed nearly a month of deliberations by more than thirty sworn Citizen Jurors of the 150 case exhibits produced by Court Prosecutors, The Court's judgement declares the wealth and property of the churches responsible for the Canadian genocide to be forfeited and placed under public ownership, as reparations for the families of the more than 50,000 children who died in the residential schools.To enforce its sentence, the Court has empowered citizens in Canada, the United States, England, Italy and a dozen other nations to act as its legal agents armed with warrants, and peacefully occupy and seize properties of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada, which are the main agents in the deaths of these children

Was Christ's bloody death demanded by God as reparation for sin?

His theology stressed penance as reparation.

And, true to label, a Green Climate Fund supported by Australia and 42 mostly developed countries will redistribute $ US100 billion ($ 128bn) annually to poorer nations as reparation for the unspecified environmental harm the West has allegedly caused them.

Not exact matches

It reminds Paul Krugman of the aftermath of the First World War, when the victors sought to punish the vanquished, and were unmoved as it became evident their demands for reparations had crossed the line of economic reason.

He serves as a coordinator for Bet Tzedek Legal Services» Holocaust Survivors Justice Network, assisting Holocaust survivors and their widows / widowers obtain reparation pension benefits for work performed while residing in German - controlled ghettos.

The nations that had been victorious in World War I demanded reparations from Germany, which could not be paid in German paper currency, as this was of suspect value due to government borrowing.

But in the 1920s the Allies imposed an unpayably high reparations burden on Germany — largely to obtain the foreign exchange to pay the Inter-Ally arms debts that the U.S. Government insisted on collecting, rather than forgiving these debts as allies traditionally had done among themselves upon achieving victory.

Germany was hit as hard in the 1920s as a result of unpayably high reparations debt.

That is why German reparations and Inter-Ally debts were written down after World War I. Greece's foreign debt is what is known as an «odious debt,» taken on by fraud to finance capital flight by Greece's One Percent.

As far as I am aware, this agreement is the first since the Young Plan for Germany's reparations debt to subordinate international debt obligations to the capacity - to - pay principlAs far as I am aware, this agreement is the first since the Young Plan for Germany's reparations debt to subordinate international debt obligations to the capacity - to - pay principlas I am aware, this agreement is the first since the Young Plan for Germany's reparations debt to subordinate international debt obligations to the capacity - to - pay principle.

The idea of a Jewish homeland as a partial reparation for an unspeakable injustice ineluctably loses its force as the immediacy of the Holocaust recedes into the past.

My post about reparations drew as many vitriolic comments as it did constructive ones.

«It is love to the end that confers on Christ's sacrifice its value as redemption and reparation, as atonement and satisfaction».

As Ta - Nehisi Coates documented recently in his long and compelling cover story for The Atlantic, «The Case for Reparations,» the government of the United States for centuries has perpetuated systemic injustice against African Americans.

As even this brief description of the debate indicates, the demand for reparations raises issues that can not be resolved entirely by courts or legislators — issues involving relationships and tensions between groups divided by ethnicity and class.

Indeed, many whites and blacks view existing social programs and political attempts to redress past injustices, including programs like affirmative action, as a form of reparations.

The call for reparations is not new; it began as soon as slavery ended.

State and federal courts and mediators are dealing with hundreds of Native American land claims, and indigenous tribes in the U.S. and Canada have filed suits demanding reparations for various crimes, such as the abuse of students in parochial and government - run schools.

Earlier this year, the Tulsa Race Riot Commission recommended that reparations be paid to the survivors of the 1921 race riot in that city, in which as many as 300 African - Americans were killed.

The privatization of crimes and violence and crimes as a domestic issue made these violations invisible, denying them their public face and any political significance or social reparation.

It should, as you put it, be done with the knowledge and involvement of the offender (s)... AND with an apology and / or reparations from them as well.

I understand that through confession my sin is forgiven, and that I have to make reparation to God for my sin, but why do I need to make this reparation as God is all loving?

However, in 1951, German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who viewed Jewish reparations as part of the burden Germans needed to confront frankly in order to wipe out the Nazi past, offered reparations amounting to DM 3.45 billion to the survivors of the Holocaust, and a second agreement in 1953 committed the Federal Republic to still further reparations payments.

But the most obvious candidate for reparations, as James Forman had foreseen in 1969, would be the descendants of the African - Americans who, from 1619 until 1865, had been legally enslaved in the United States.

It expresses the measure of resistance we have toward identifying individuals as anything but individuals, and it poses a philosophical stumbling block for reparations litigation right on the threshold of the courtroom.

If the group to be identified as the recipients of reparations payments is simply to be «African - Americans,» then there will be a surprising number of claimants eligible for reparations payments who have, so to speak, been «white» for several generations.

Few people took Forman seriously in 1969, but as money began to flow to Holocaust survivors and Japanese - American internees, it became difficult for African - Americans not to wonder bitterly why they should be denied a place at the reparations table.

Provisions can be worked out to reconcile the past memories and amend past mistakes through religious values (repentance, forgiveness, and reconciliation), socio - economic means (such as providing assistance to development, promoting fair aid and trade, restitution, and reparation), and by political goals (of consensus building and solidarity).

But even this view correlated significantly with his view of contrition as requiring behavioral change and reparation.

As part of the plan, bishops are to set aside each first Friday as a day of fasting and prayer in reparation for the abusAs part of the plan, bishops are to set aside each first Friday as a day of fasting and prayer in reparation for the abusas a day of fasting and prayer in reparation for the abuse.

«Dear Brothers and Sisters of the Church in Ireland, it is with great concern that I write to you as Pastor of the universal Church... For my part, considering the gravity of these offences, and the often inadequate response to them on the part of the ecclesiastical authorities in your country, I have decided to write this Pastoral Letter to express my closeness to you and to propose a path of healing, renewal and reparation.»

As I lie dying I hope to be able to reflect on the fact that I brought nothing into this world and I can take nothing out and so make reparation for all the times I have bowed the knee to a society dominated by materialism.

Japan shall be permitted to maintain such industries as will sustain her economy and permit the exaction of just reparations in kind, but not those which would enable her to rearm for war.

«SERAP believes that the right to truth allows Nigerians to gain access to information essential to the fight against corruption and in turn development of democratic institutions as well as provides a form of reparation to victims of grand corruption in the country.»

Nixon said marijuana arrests disproportionately impact minorities and sparked controversy by saying in a Forbes interview that «people of color» must get first dibs at licenses for selling cannabis as a «form of reparations.»

An effective remedy entails access to justice, reparation for theharm suffered as a result of grand corruption, and access to the factual information concerning allegations of corruption.»

«A speedy prosecution will serve as a deterrent and ensure that Nigerians, particularly those in the northeast whose human rights have been violated, are not denied justice and reparation.

Earlier this month, the gubernatorial candidate said that communities of color hard hit by the war on drugs should get first crack at legalized pot as a «form of reparations.»

In an interview earlier this month, Nixon said that communities of color hard hit by the war on drugs should get first crack at legalized pot as a «form of reparations.»

Nixon said if it were legalized, people of color should get the first opportunities to hold licenses for sale of the drug as a form of «reparations.»

The findings also could help inform the ongoing public debate about the economic impacts of human - made environmental disasters such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and how much polluters should have to pay in reparation.

Studies have found that the topical application of mashed avocado to the skin can help nourish and hydrate it, as well as contribute to the reparation of UV sun damage in the skin to minimize the appearance of aging.

The only questions are why my HDL would drop and TRIGS increase and whether we can assume the spurts in LDL were continuing as a result of reparation of the damage to the vessels and if 3 mos.

Later, use judgement as to when to allow negative comments and reparations, if at all.

If he had demonstrated an understanding of why lighting the fire was wrong, made reparation for the infraction, and formed healthier social relationships, Oscar would be returned to his general education homeroom with the special education and related services supports he had previously received, as well as additional therapeutic supports outside school.

Mr. Hunt was my facilitator that year as we read «The Case for Reparations» with students from Maret High School.