Sentences with phrase «reparations from»

Highlights of its far - reaching activities include: representing consumer debtors filing bankruptcy; helping veterans in overcoming legal barriers to employment; providing litigation and advice for tenants in legal disputes; and assisting low - income Holocaust survivors claiming reparations from Germany.

Transfers the functions with regards to awards of reparations from the Court of Claims commissioners or a single judge of the Court of Claims to the Court.

With past evidence of said droughts and solar activity, African nations have no real basis for «global warming» reparations from wealthier countries.

U.S. diplomats were specifically instructed by the Obama administration to oppose any attempts to create an independent fund for climate reparations from rich countries to poor countries.

The Middle Kingdom, and the rest of the BRiCworld, are happy to let the developed West heap guilt on itself and to whine for reparations from the sinful.

Aqqaluk Lynge, a board member and former president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council of Greenland in Nuuk, helped secure modest reparations from Denmark for the displaced residents of Uummannaq, and he says waste leaching from Camp Century would certainly be a problem.

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 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.

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.

He would eventually be fully exonerated and receive an apology and reparations from the government of Canada for the role it played in his plight.

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.

We do not have painful war reparations from the Treaty of Versailles to deal with.

And, when it comes to snow sport accidents, you might be able to collect reparation from the negligent party.

Not exact matches

For a few years during the heyday of the 1920s bubble, Germany was able to do just this, borrowing more than half of its reparation payments from the US markets, but much of this borrowing occurred because the great hyperinflation of the early 1920s had wiped out the country's debt burden.

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

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.

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

• Finally, collective forgiveness requires that one move from apology to reparation.

This is what decisively distances the Japanese internees and the Holocaust survivors from the slave reparations question, because in the first two cases there were identifiable individuals to whom benefits, restitution, and indemnity could be paid.

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.

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.

This does not affect the forgiveness always and immediately forthcoming from God to a repentant sinner who turns inwardly to God; reparation, satisfaction and punishment were linked with the Church's formal sacramental ratification of repentance and forgiveness.

However, he got off with a surprisingly light penalty from Commissioner Pete Rozelle and the Owners» Executive Committee, which decides on reparations in cases like this.

In 2000, Mugabe passed an amendment to the constitution that made Britain pay reparations for the land it had seized from blacks.

Facing strong criticism from black leaders, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon said she would no longer refer to «reparations» in her push to legalize marijuana.

In the 1920s the Nobel Prize — winning chemist Fritz Haber dreamed of paying Germany's World War I reparations with gold sifted from seawater.

So the boisterous, outlandish, fiercely intelligent Django Unchained is at once an act of provocation and reparation — not just for slavery, but for Hollywood's decades of saintly Negroes and sass - talking sidekicks and its relentless whitewashing of history, from Guess Who's Coming to Dinner to The Help.

His mother, you see, was the youngest daughter of the 7th Duke of Chalfont, until she married an opera singer and was promptly booted out of the clan for daring to find love from outside of her social strata; this single act of cruelty is the sole source of Louis» misery in life, and so he finds reparation in death.

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.

Ladson - Billings inspires the question: how might the conversation about supporting struggling students be different if it came from a place of moral, political, and economic justice, in reparation for the historic oppression that has led to the achievement gap?

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

Activists from the group Decolonize This Place led chants for «repatriation» and «reparations» at New York's Brooklyn Museum

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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.

We must redirect the dollars now pouring into military and big business to the people who need it to adapt to and recuperate from climate change — not as charity, but as eco-colonial reparations.

If you are seeking reparation for the injuries that you have sustained then you will greatly benefit from the legal assistance of a Tallahassee personal injury attorney from The Pelham Law Firm.

If you are seeking reparation for injuries you have sustained then you will greatly benefit from the legal assistance and experience of a representative from our firm.

Costa Rica v. Nicaragua (Certain Activities Carried Out By Nicaragua in the Border Area)(Reparation Phase): instructed as junior counsel to Costa Rica in claim for reparation before International Court of Justice arising from, inter alia, environmental harm caused by breach of international obligations by Reparation Phase): instructed as junior counsel to Costa Rica in claim for reparation before International Court of Justice arising from, inter alia, environmental harm caused by breach of international obligations by reparation before International Court of Justice arising from, inter alia, environmental harm caused by breach of international obligations by Nicaragua.

Justice Beach acknowledged that the plaintiff had already received damages from Yahoo, which provided some mitigation for damages under the Act, but awarded compensatory damages for vindication of the plaintiff's reputation, reparation of harm, and «consolation for the distress, upset and injury to the plaintiff's feelings occasioned by the publication.»

Authorizes the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to appoint magistrates (rather than referees) in civil actions in the Court of Claims and authorizes a magistrate to disclose or refer to certain records or reports otherwise exempt from public disclosure in reparations hearings.

This statement of the full compensation principle springs from a long established tort rule summarised 129 years ago by Lord Blackburn in Livingstone v Rawyards Coal (1880) 5 App Cas 25: «I do not think that there is any difference of opinion as to it being a general rule that, where any injury is to be compensated by damages, in settling the sum of money to be given for reparation of damages you should as nearly as possible get at that sum of money which will put the party who has been injured or who has suffered, in the same position as he would have been if he had not sustained the wrong.»

The remaining four are: to separate offenders from society where necessary, to assist in rehabilitating offenders, to provide reparations for harm done to victims or to the community, and to provide a sense of responsibility in offenders.

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

Unfortunately, it can be difficult, or even impossible, to collect reimbursement from the responsible party — particularly if the offending driver simply does not have the funds to make reparations.

As already known, between the Hellenic Republic and Germany there is a long standing and unresolved dispute regarding WWII reparations arising — among others — from individual compensatory claims [ICCs] belonging to private persons (civilians) targeted with belligerent reprisals perpetrated within the forum's jurisdiction and by the Reich's military forces.

Coincheck, which has already begun distributing reparations to customers impacted by the NEM theft, has seen struck with two business improvement orders from the Financial Services Agency (FSA), the country's» financial regulator.

The principal used for reparations will be derived from company funds.

The time from when Coincheck suspended new purchase and sales of NEM on its platform Friday to when it announced the reparation policy Saturday was the period for which the weighted average was calculated.

Funding from a Reparations Tribunal will help Stolen Generations return to visit country and connect with community.