Sentences with phrase «demanded reparations»

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.

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.

But if the Japanese and Swiss examples offered an incentive for demanding the reparations Forman described, they did not offer much in the way of useful guidance, since three fundamental problems that did not exist in the Jewish or Japanese cases stand in the way of slave reparations.

This explains the significance in his oeuvre of the object and the archive as tangible traces of History and of wounds that demand reparation.

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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.

Relations between the Leftist nation and Germany have deteriorated after Mr Tsipras demanded the repayment of Nazi war reparations earlier this 7 days.

Doha's Gulf neighbours have imposed a 10 - day deadline to comply with demands including reparations, closing Al Jazeera and regular inspections.

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.

The demand for reparations calls us to think in a different way about the enduring legacy of racism and to articulate possible solutions in ways that are both relevant and reasonable to individual citizens.

This was so unprecedented that the 1945 Paris Conference on Reparations chose to ignore the Jewish demands.

But the war reparations of Versailles belonged to a very different category from the reparations Forman was demanding.

What made Forman's demand possible in 1969 was an important redefinition of the idea of reparations that grew out of the experience of World War II and the discovery of the extermination of six million of Europe's Jews by the Nazis.

But if they are not all that vulnerable legally to reparations demands, corporations are vulnerable in other ways.

What raised eyebrows about these demands was not their size but the fact that they came from an ethnic group, rather than a nation or state, and a group which was asking that its ethnic identity become the basis for the reparations.

It not only reversed the conventional direction of reparations, but it legitimized demands for reparations for past injustices by groups who had no specific national identity of their own.

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

Re-evaluation of WWII outcome and rehabilitation of Nazism can lead to territorial claims to Russian territory and demands for material reparations.

Spurred by a sense of injustice that has lingered for two centuries, the countries plan to compile an inventory of the lasting damage they believe they suffered and then demand an apology and reparations from the former colonial powers of Britain, France and the Netherlands.

Robinson looks beyond claims of «reverse discrimination» to the continuing achievement gaps between blacks and whites and evaluates the functionality of affirmative action as a remedy for past discrimination, leading to his highly publicized demand for reparations to black Americans and Africans for centuries of social and economic abuse.

I can't see why Africa and other developing nations should be ready to refrain from demanding hundreds of billions of dollars in reparations given that Nicholas Stern and other green campaigners and government officials claim that the West is liable for current and future climate disasters.»

They hope to continue gaming the system by selling carbon credits of doubtful authenticity on an already corrupt market, and demanding climate reparations and technology transfers from the West, while remaining free to build their own clean modern and efficient coal / gas / nuclear / hydro energy grid.

This compounding effect is more than bitter irony: it demands a just response, specific reparation and the maximum protection of Australia's residual native title estate.