Sentences with phrase «reparations by»

But if you did look at Weimar you would see what an extreme case it was, Germany having lost WWI and been saddled with huge reparations by the Treaty of Versailles, and the US is nowhere near that situation.

These powers range from reparation in kind to reparation by equivalence.

Reparation by equivalence is appropriate where the employer goes out of business either in part or completely (making it impossible for employees to be reinstated).

Not exact matches

If this were the case, Germany could have paid its reparations debt by depreciating the mark in 1921.

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.

But that was a deliberate political policy by Germany who was facing huge reparations payments — especially to France the main creditor at the time.

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

Similarly, if it is God before whom we stand, «we certainly do not make reparation merely by ceasing from evil.

James realizes that the faithful must be confronted by it, that the perception of Catholic Church in the public forum is irrevocably changed because of it, and that he himself needs to make reparations on the part of sinful humanity.

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.

In 1921, reparations were based on the damages inflicted by outright war, not social or political wrongs, and they were imposed by the winners on the losers.

Lincoln thought, by 1865, that he could discern that purpose, and the purpose was the payment of reparations in a dearer currency than money could calculate.

This, of course, is where the notion of group identity enters into the reparations argument, since the crime of slavery — by the logic of modern reparations — was committed, not against individuals, but against a group (African - Americans) and therefore reparations can be paid to a group (African - American descendants).

The most notorious example is the reparation imposed by the Allied Powers at the end of World War I on Germany by the Versailles Treaty.

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 to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.

1 By the same token, if the object of reparations litigation is to be the descendants of slave - owners, what do we do when many of those who sue are themselves descendants of those same slave - owners, and also belong, by reasons of racial mixing, to the class of those being sueBy the same token, if the object of reparations litigation is to be the descendants of slave - owners, what do we do when many of those who sue are themselves descendants of those same slave - owners, and also belong, by reasons of racial mixing, to the class of those being sueby reasons of racial mixing, to the class of those being sued?

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.

But if the integrity of apologies is to be sustained, they should be followed by reparations.

The whole story of gas chambers and crematoria is pure fiction, a gigantic hoax, a myth, a vicious fraud invented by World Jewry in order to gain financial reparations from Germany and global sympathy for the state of Israel.

«3 He hoped by his own work to make some reparation to the Sikhs for the insults which Trumpp offered to their Gurus4 and their religion.

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).

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

The Israeli government proposed to negotiate with West Germany for reparations covering the destruction of Jewish property by the Nazi regime.

More priests need to come together publicly to pray, to make reparation for their fallen confreres, and to prepare for revival in a Church stifled by secularism.

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.

Today, Egypt's transition is at best suspended, and over the past months, transitional justice mechanisms like trials and reparations have been selectively developed by a state elite that is untransformed.

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.»

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.

The management of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State has directed its students to pay a reparation fee of N25, 000 each owing to the protest embarked upon by its students last month which allegedly resulted to the defacement of properties in and outside the school premises.

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.»

Gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon made the same argument, saying it would be a form of «reparations» — comments criticized by Sharpton and other black leaders.

Vitamin E battles the disease of cancer by promoting the reparation of cells and inhibiting damage done to the DNA.

administered by the Office of the Attorney General on behalf of the Crime Victims Reparations Board, provides financial.

She has been disfigured by a gunshot wound to the face; her friend Lene (Nina Kuzendorf) helps nurse her back to health, urging Nelly to claim her postwar reparations and join other surviving Jews in Palestine.

A report by The Guardian from last year discovered that over a third of head teachers believed that their facilities were unfit for purpose, with 60 per cent desiring reparation or improvement works.

In March 2010, Bawden was shortlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize, to be awarded by public vote in reparation for the prize's missing year owing to a change in rules.

It needed to preserve cash for the potential payment of reparations and lawsuits to citizens who were damaged by the spill.

The result of a collaboration with an international group of artists, it will include a cooking show by Will Benedict, a nature show by Korakrit Arunanondchai, a video by Mckenzie Wark, a visual essay by Aria Dean, a talk show by Hannah Black, a docu - short on «seasteading» in Tahiti by Daniel Keller, a report on «reparation hardware» by Ilana Harris Babou, a cartoon by Amalia Ulman, a docu - short on «economic utopias» by Christopher Kulendran Thomas, a Nollywood fictional drama exploring the influence of technology and digital culture in South Africa by the artist collective CUSS Group, and a contribution by the Women's History Museum.

The program includes a variety of formats, including a cooking show by Will Benedict and Steffen Jørgensen; a show on human - animal relations in Africa and Thailand by Korakrit Arunanondchai; a «general intellects» video with McKenzie Wark; a visual essay by Aria Dean; a docu - short on «seasteading» in Tahiti by Daniel Keller and Jacob Hurwitz Goodman; a report on «reparation hardware» by Ilana Harris - Babou; a cartoon by Amalia Ulman; a docu - short on «economic utopias» by Christopher Kulendran Thomas; a fictional drama by the South African collective CUSS Group exploring the influence of technology and digital culture in South Africa; and a contribution by the Women's History Museum.

Like many works by these practitioners, Mallary's reliefs, paintings and assemblages oscillate between visions of destruction and recuperation, registering the impact of World War II and the threat of the Cold War, but also expressing a desire for reparation.

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

More successful was Ilana - Harris Babou's Reparation Hardware, in which the artist, relying on the form of infomericals put out by nonprofits, offers a fake service that will help black Americans finally receive reparations, or repayment for the horrors their ancestors suffered when they were slaves.

2,» is approximately 9.5 by 13 feet, and the full extent of the damages done to it are unknown but reparations are estimated to cost at least $ 10,000.

Driven by the urgency of social and cultural reparations, it aims to reunite which has been shattered, or drift apart.

«Reparation: Imago Mundi,» (Luciano Benetton Art Collection, Italy), New Orleans Art Museum, curated by Diego Cortez, New Orleans, LA, 2014.

Leigh Ledare Mom with Hand on Bed Ed # 2/5 w / Intervention by Nicholas Guagnini, 2008 collaged C - print, ink, copy of Melanie Klein's «Love, Guilt and Reparation» 177,8 × 127 cm (70 × 50 inches)

The Rapture wrt AGW is of course the sweet by and by of billions of dollars in «carbon debt» reparations, carbon trading profits, and «green» jobs for the true believers and those suffering victims of capitalism.

One hundred billion dollars per year in climate reparations is the bare minimum that the rich countries owe the poor, according to an afternoon panel discussion sponsored by the Chinese Association for Science and Technology.