How To Use Recompense In A Sentence

‘Break, break, break,’ for instance, is a bitter poem on unrecompensed, pointless loss, but it achieves its power and makes its point very indirectly, largely through structural implications.
A native title ‘claim’ is not technically made for recompense for past loss, but for the recognition of current but inchoate rights.
They claim for the bath plug, and in the act of seeking recompense for such a small and essential item they show their incredible greed. Times, Sunday Times
Heath adds that the rent of land ‘is a voluntary recompense for distributive services.’
Many small farms were indeed still let to some cottagers at rack-rent, which cottages had the right of commonage, guaranteed to them in their leases; but afterwards the commons were enclosed, and no recompense was made to the tenants by the landlords. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria

Tomorrow makes the same demands, and offers a similar recompense. Times, Sunday Times
However, asking for direct recompense is problematic for several reasons.
But however many were in the household, we would know that in her setting, her days would ordinarily be taken up with the hard, unrecompensed work of women of all ages: to feed and clothe and nurture her growing household.
They suffer, they die, yet they won't receive any recompense.
Stone's time, in other words, is unrecompensed.
The isolation seemed complete, in the haste he had forgotten his companion and in recompense he called out his name.
The court awarded the women $100 000 each to recompense them for nine years of lost wages.
At its most extreme the attitude of large copyright holders seems to be that no unrecompensed use is fair and that none should be permitted.
The Church found abundant recompense for the loss of temporal authority in the rediscovery of its spiritual primacy.
But other parts of the book offer good recompense for the frustrations of the musical exegesis. The Times Literary Supplement
If the value of the reinstatement or rebuilding exceeds the value of cover, recompense may be limited to value of the lesser.
Any recompense you can offer them will be most richly deserved. Times, Sunday Times
In the same manner (says Blackstone,) by the Irish brehon law, in case of murder, the brehon or judge, compounded between the murderer and the friends of the deceased, who prosecuted him, by causing the malefactor to give unto them, or to the child or wife of him that was slain, a recompense, which they called _eriach_. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 560, August 4, 1832
That they do," she answered, with an eloquent and expressive glance; and thereupon ushered me into, not the kitchen, but the dining room -- a favour, I took it, in recompense for my grand manner. JOHNNY UPRIGHT
‘Every effort will be made to ensure that, where they can be identified, those customers will be fully recompensed,’ Mr O'Reilly said.
No work for them as well giros are their due recompense off the fascist state for going to drug raves important demo's against Israel and the EVIL Airlines or something. Labour voters No.2 - The eco loon.
Other investors dealing with advisers such as Chase de Vere are also seeking recompense. Times, Sunday Times
The seashore inhabitants gained some recompense by resorting to wrecking, a tradition which lasted well into the 19th cent., and by their own privateering and smuggling.
This objection, however, or some other, rather political than moral, obtained such prevalence, that when Gay produced a second part, under the name of Polly, it was prohibited by the lord chamberlain; and he was forced to recompense his repulse by a subscription, which is said to have been so liberally bestowed, that what he called oppression ended in profit. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
When the costs of crime are assessed, account should be taken of losses recompensed through insurance.
Councillors are entitled to basic allowances to recompense them for the hours they put in sitting on committees and reading reports and agendas.
He said: ‘We are not trying to jump on the pay bandwagon, but if somebody is to go to meetings, there should be recompense for loss of earnings.’
If a strong master/apprentice tradition exists, for example, where you're expected to gain a master's consent to teach you, and to "recompense" them with a period of submission to their teachings, if that's what "paying your dues" entails, then disrespecting those mores is disrespecting those sources/influences/teachers by refusing to pay the expected entry fee. The Sacred Domain
But when the church has knowingly let children suffer, it has lost its claim to the moral high ground until it has recompensed those who have been harmed.
The time will soon come; grief and famine have already sapped the foundations of my being; a very short time, and I shall have passed away; unstained by the crime of self-destruction, unstung by the memory of degradation, my spirit will throw aside the miserable coil, and find such recompense as fortitude and resignation may deserve. The Last Man
If she chose to stay on the line as O'Reilly "climaxed," and if she was indeed taping it, then she was consciously enablingâeven stagingâthe very trauma for which she is now seeking multi-million-dollar recompense. Archive 2004-10-01
This naive offer, made without the hope of recompense, though a byzant would not have paid for the special grace of this speech; and the modesty of the gesture with which the poor girl turned to him gained the heart of the jeweller, who would have liked to be able to put this bondswoman into the skin of a queen, and Paris at her feet. Droll Stories — Volume 3
He observed no sort of moderation, such as befitted a private man, either in rewarding or in punishing; the recompense of his friends and guests was absolute power over cities, and irresponsible authority, and the only satisfaction of his wrath was the destruction of his enemy; banishment would not suffice. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
The charge recompenses the bank for the costs involved.
They are protesting over the Bank's failure to recompense them for produce sold to the now defunct meat plant, but never paid for.
It was a splendid figure of a lass, tall and vigorous, with the sort of hair that in polite circles is called auburn, and that flaming colour in the cheeks which is Nature's recompense to people who live where it rains all the time. King Coal : a Novel
The fees offered by the NHS do not recompense dental surgeons for their professional time.
Réjouissez-vous et soyez dans l'allégresse, parce que votre récompense est grande dans les cieux; car c'est ainsi qu'ils ont persécuté les prophètes qui ont été avant vous. Archive 2008-06-01
If we deny ourselves in anything, that our hearts stand strongly for, because it hinders us in holy courses, God will be sure to recompense us in spiritual things abundantly, yea, and in temporal things many times.
Substantial damages were paid in recompense.
He dug a coin out of the purse dangling from his belt; it was almost all of what he had, but he wouldn't feel right if he didn't offer her something in recompense.
Money was only part of the recompense for a taipan or griffin, the assistant to a taipan. The Last Empress
Whenever she was still, he seated himself at her chamber door, where, if he could hear her breathe or move, a sudden hope of her recovery gave to him a momentary extasy that recompensed all his sufferings. Cecilia
Even crimes contrary to nature were not unknown, but as the martyr-apostle of Christ says: "Their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature; and the men also, leaving the natural use of the woman, flamed out in lust towards each other, perpetrating shameless acts with their own sex, and receiving in their own persons the due recompense of their pervertedness. On the Incarnation
The esteem of a prince who possesses the virtues which he approves, is the noblest recompense of a deserving subject; and the authority which Julian derived from his personal merit, enabled him to revive and enforce the rigor of ancient discipline. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Any recompense you can offer them will be most richly deserved. Times, Sunday Times
The recompense is meagre, but when combined with ideological enthusiasm it helps sustain a new type of local politician.
Mothers do this out of pure love - without any desire for reward or recompense.
So much focus is placed on the feelings of the victim's families these days that I think we may have lost sight of the fact that there can be no recompense for the loss of a loved one.
I regret I cannot greet you properly tonight at the soiree—there are more pressing matters that demand my attention—but as recompense for my disgracious absence, I pray you will accept my invitation to dine tomorrow. The Curse of the Wendigo
When we pursued the contactor for recompense he started to send threatening letters demanding payment of his call-out charge. Times, Sunday Times
We must remember that in a fair society, an individual who has genuinely incurred loss due to the negligence of another, should have some recompense for that loss.
Would it be just and equitable for the respondents to receive no recompense for work done?
They say that they want the United Nations to establish a fund to recompense them for their massive losses.
The dangers of not doing so are self-explanatory: either paying higher premiums than necessary or not getting adequate recompense if your property is under-insured.
From his grandparents he learns that much had been sacrificed for him, and so much is required in recompense, but that this transaction can occur in the purity of mutual love. On Barack Obama, Part 1 « Tales from the Reading Room
But the Earth withal is verdant, sun-beshone; and the Son of Adam has his place on it, and his tasks and recompenses in it, to the close; -- as one remembers by and by, too. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.
In recompense, the company offered $100 gift certificates to customers who didn't get their packages.
Breeders working to a business plan who market themselves well and who keep abreast of developments in the industry, will be well recompensed for their efforts.
Many others have been offered no recompense at all. Times, Sunday Times
There must be adequate recompense for workers who lose their jobs.
Henry knows how to recognize merit where merit is due, and he recompenses it.
All were robbed of their golden statuettes at the 1999 Oscars, but recompensed by Mingella's fascinating director's commentary provided on this DVD.
Voluntary, unrecompensed blood donors are the foundation of our blood supply.
Rather, once a person has properly repented, including making appropriate recompense, then He freely forgives the penitent.
One of the interesting things for me is that these Australian scientists really want to come home, if only they can continue with their research and receive adequate recompense for that research.
The insurance company accepted this, but they still only want to recompense us to the tune of less than a third of what we thought we'd insured ourselves for.
It was meant to give sick and dying men recompense for the irreparable damage to their health caused by years of mining coal. Times, Sunday Times
The player may receive a yearly loyalty payment, possibly in recompense for ensuring that his salary does not exceed the club's wage structure. Times, Sunday Times
Their only recompense is thin gruel and some bread at the end of the day.
He said that if passengers were more than a hour late because of the breakdown they should send their tickets to the company and they would be recompensed under the company's customer charter.
Other investors dealing with advisers such as Chase de Vere are also seeking recompense. Times, Sunday Times
She feels that this has more than recompensed her burning desire to be a journalist.
It would be just for us to get some recompense for what we suffered.
Polly, it was prohibited by the Lord Chamberlain; and he was forced to recompense his repulse by a subscription, which is said to have been so liberally bestowed that what he called oppression ended in profit. Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2
Remember if you do something world changing, you are likely to get handsomely recompensed for it.
Corporate officers and directors now face the specter of personal liability unrecompensed by their company or its insurance carrier for shareholder losses, whistleblower claims, and similar types of liabilities.
Moreover, we cannot credit such selfishness on the part of such a man, or believe that he, to whom a grateful sovereign and country decerned every recompense in their power to bestow, would be so thankless to the men to whose sweat and blood he mainly owed his success -- to men who bore him, it may truly be said, upon their shoulders, to the highest pinnacle of greatness a British subject can possibly attain. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
For the young men, that were most able and fit for labor and service, did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives and children without any recompense. Thankful for Private Property
Tomorrow makes the same demands, and offers a similar recompense. Times, Sunday Times
Instead, everyone who works in the garden can take produce home in recompense for his or her efforts.
One side wants plaques and plaudits; the other demands contrition and recompense. Times, Sunday Times
So that what we say about future events being foretold, we do not say it as if they came about by a fatal necessity; but God foreknowing all that shall be done by all men, and it being His decree that the future actions of men shall all be recompensed according to their several value, He foretells by the ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
Alaric had faithfully asserted the just pretensions of the republic to the provinces which were usurped by the Greeks of Constantinople: he modestly required the fair and stipulated recompense of his services; and if he had desisted from the prosecution of his enterprise, he had obeyed, in his retreat, the peremptory, though private, letters of the emperor himself. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
They claim for the bath plug, and in the act of seeking recompense for such a small and essential item they show their incredible greed. Times, Sunday Times
My noble Emperor generously offers me the right of naming what he calls my recompense; but let not his generosity be dispraised, although it is from you, my lord, and not from his Imperial Count Robert of Paris
In high-profile cases, the tobacco industry has recently paid enormous amounts to recompense individuals damaged by its products.
When we pursued the contactor for recompense he started to send threatening letters demanding payment of his call-out charge. Times, Sunday Times
Cecilia, penetrated with joy and gratitude, felt in that instant the amplest recompense for all that she had suffered, and for all that she had lost. Cecilia
The door design is no longer made by the manufacturer concerned and I was offered recompense for one garage door only. Times, Sunday Times
Even Alexander the Great had to recompense an Athenian who was robbed on the way to Olympia.
He practiced astrology, calculated horoscopes for a consideration, lectured on chemistry and astronomy, blasphemed the Christian religion, published a journal of hybrid doctrines, called the Philomathean, and pretended to calculate "cheap nativities" on the transit of planets for $10 each, for all of which he obtained but slender pecuniary recompense. Jack London's Parentage
I received £500 from the local council in recompense for the damage to my garden.
If people's legal rights to seek recompense for harm done to them are to be curtailed, there has to be some guarantee that the burden of their care does not fall on them alone.
A spokesperson yesterday confirmed that those who had been disadvantaged by the regulation from April 1998 would be recompensed over the next four months.
A letter from the company's lawyers soon brought the newspaper to heel and an appropriate sum in recompense was negotiated, the main beneficiary of which is a local centre for disabled children.
One side wants plaques and plaudits; the other demands contrition and recompense. Times, Sunday Times
We've paid all this money to recompense the music industry for piracy.
Even if the defect was unknown to the seller he had to recompense the buyer.
He also said that they were the ones who had suffered the most from the regime, and so should be recompensed now.
‘Keep your recompense for yourself,’ replied the ratcatcher proudly. The Red Fairy Book
Few nurseries and Universities would be willing to spend the years of unpaid dedication and unrecompensed expenses independent growers do on a favorite plant.
The door design is no longer made by the manufacturer concerned and I was offered recompense for one garage door only. Times, Sunday Times
These and other horrendous work he was forced to do while a PoW effected him for the rest of his life with no recompense from the German Government and hardly any from the British government. Athens backs villagers' fight for German compensation over 1944 SS massacre
I replied, in my desire of forgiveness, Verily, if thou wilt pardon me, God will pardon thee in recompense for thy shewing mercy to a Muslim who hath done thee no injury: and I humbled myself in the most abject manner, and said to him, Pardon me as the envied man did the envier. Nights 9-18. The Story of the Second Royal Mendicant.
Compensation for those wrongly convicted isn't just to recompense them, it's supposed to express our disapproval of their conviction in the way that a civil case would punish a negligent surgeon.
Indeed, even trainers of junior club teams are well recompensed for their input, and few are formally equipped for the role either.
If the club fails to pay back the debt, the bondholders would be given the proceeds from the ticket sales to recompense them.
America had been insisting the World Bank was recompensed through cuts in aid programmes to Africa.
And today we are still fighting to make sure the company makes available enough money to recompense its victims.
We are disappointed by the failure of the bus company to offer to recompense her.
This assigns the reason why He has thus destroyed the foe (Zep 3: 8). my redeemed -- My people to be redeemed. day ... year -- here, as in Isa 34: 8; 61: 2, the time of "vengeance" is described as a "day"; that of grace and of "recompense" to the Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
But governments these days face anomie, impatience, generalised discontent, which are less amenable than they once were to the recompense of doctrinal zeal, for the simple reason that it does not exist.
I received £500 from the local council in recompense for the damage to my garden.
The wind had quieted, fortunately, but as if in recompense, the snow underneath them had become less firm.
He stressed that if mistakes were made the public should be recompensed.
He will not be paid but he will be recompensed for lost wages.
Finally, the fragment from Pindar indicates that Persephone accepts recompense or payment of penalty from some souls.
In recompense, he was given a free chicken salad sandwich and all the sweets he could eat.
When victory had been fully secured, we withdrew to our own shores unrecompensed save in the consciousness of duty done.
She did not have the wherewithal to chase those people down, and, even if she did, she was unlikely to get recompense from them.
I decided that I would give the rapscallion a severe lashing as recompense for his untimely calling.
The doors are then thrown open, and the lucky clodpole receives the titbit as his recompense.
When we pursued the contactor for recompense he started to send threatening letters demanding payment of his call-out charge. Times, Sunday Times
To attend a funeral, a baptizing, or a circus parade, Berkeley will forsake family, friends, customers, and chicken legs; he will go through sun or through rain, by night or by day, in summer or in winter, and will never consider himself unrecompensed.
In many cases, the female role in the cash economy is one of consumer and unrecompensed producer.
She wrung her hands in pitiable uncertainty; then suddenly seized upon the thought that she was no longer acting in her own interest but in Raymon's; that she was going to him, not in search of happiness, but to make him happy, and that, even though she were to be accursed for all eternity, she would be sufficiently recompensed if she embellished her lover's life. Indiana
Nay, the owner himself will abandon his new grubbed clearage so soon as, by his cultivation, he has rendered it commodious for a less enterprising husbandman; once more he presses into the wilderness; again makes space for himself in the forests; in recompense of that first toiling a double and treble space; on which also, it may be, he thinks not to continue. A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy
The least the new Minister could do in recompense for this disgraceful episode is offer the girl and her grandmother a place in New Zealand, if they wish to take it up.
He demands no financial recompense for his troubles.
Could money alone recompense him for seven years of unceasing commitment? FINAL RESORT
He will not be paid but he will be recompensed for lost wages.
The father's desire for revenge or recompense is completely irrelevant. The Preponderance of the Evidence, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
In the first year, the losses will be recompensed by a one-time pay-out.
I received £500 from the local council in recompense for the damage to my garden.
But other parts of the book offer good recompense for the frustrations of the musical exegesis. The Times Literary Supplement
It is no recompense to give failed applicants priority to acquire tickets they did not want in the first place. Times, Sunday Times
No amount of financial recompense can excuse the way in which the company carried out its policy.
He said that if passengers were more than a hour late because of the breakdown they should send in their tickets and they would be recompensed under the company's customer charter.
But the Earth withal is verdant, sun-beshone; and the Son of Adam has his place on it, and his tasks and recompenses in it, to the close; ” as one remembers by and by, too. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II
Or how is he above being endamaged, when he is so cautious lest he be wronged of his recompense? Essays and Miscellanies
In my case, though I cannot walk, this is recompensed with a lot of strength and motivation.
He was, it is reported, royally recompensed by the imperial pair.
However, I believe that these complications will be a thousand times recompensed by the fundamental and long-standing significance of this enlargement.
Cast not away therefore your confidence , which hath great recompense of reward.
No such reason can be invoked for his justification when he tells how the sun receives from earth his alimental recompense Milton
In recompense, though, they provide much more extensive information than the other museums about each work.
The charge recompenses the bank for the costs involved.
If therefore they shall stand in neede of any thing, we desire you of all humanitie, and for the nobilities which is in you, to ayde and helpe them with such things as they lacke, receiuing againe of them such things as they shall be able to giue you in recompense. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Sir Phobos said ... it's funny, I actually thought they got off light since almost no one claimed their recompense from the lawsuits. A Pricey Cup Of Joe
Although the fund has been formed to recompense members for performing their duties, councillors were told they should not feel forced to accept the money.
In the same manner (says Blackstone,) by the Irish brehon law, in case of murder, the brehon or judge, compounded between the murderer and the friends of the deceased, who prosecuted him, by causing the malefactor to give unto them, or to the child or wife of him that was slain, a recompense, which they called _eriach_. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 560, August 4, 1832
Many others have been offered no recompense at all. Times, Sunday Times
If the Minister does not like what the commissioner is saying, doing, or writing, then he or she can remove the commissioner without any recompense or comeback at all.
It is no recompense to give failed applicants priority to acquire tickets they did not want in the first place. Times, Sunday Times
Before that could go ahead, she had to sign legal documents waiving any right of recompense should the surgery go wrong.
The council will pay tens of thousands of pounds out to its biggest trade union to recompense staff said to have been distressed over a jobs transfer.
He deserved any extra proceeds that might have resulted from the increase in the cost of building materials he used, and he deserves recompense for all his efforts to improve the property and renovate it over time.
No one could fail to be moved by the statements of the family and no sentence I can pass may in any way recompense their loss.
Last summer, school management bodies raised the possibility of the principals and their deputies being recompensed for the extra burden.
We now offer, in reparation for these violations of Thy Divine Honor, the satisfaction Thou didst once make to Thy Eternal Father on the cross and which Thou dost continue to renew daily on our altars; we offer it in union with the acts of atonement of Thy Virgin Mother and all the saints and of the pious faithful on earth; and we sincerely promise to make recompense as far as we can, with the help of Thy grace, for all neglect of Thy great love and for the sins we and others have committed in the past. Ss Petri & Pauli
In this event we will have no alternative but to look to you for recompense for all incurred costs.
My noble Emperor generously offers me the right of naming what he calls my recompense; but let not his generosity be dispraised, although it is from you, my lord, and not from his Imperial Count Robert of Paris
Companies can, of course, recompense their senior employees as they see fit, in line with what they perceive as the going rate for the jobs they do.
The isolation seemed complete, in the haste he had forgotten his companion and in recompense he called out his name.
I received $1 000 in recompense for loss of earnings.
Nor did Mrs. Mittin involve her in much distress how her own trouble might be recompensed; the cap she found unfit for Camilla, she could contrive, she said, to alter for herself; and as a friend had given her a ticket for the ball, it would be mighty convenient to her, as she had nothing of the kind ready. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
The recompense is meagre, but when combined with ideological enthusiasm it helps sustain a new type of local politician.
The recompense is meagre, but when combined with ideological enthusiasm it helps sustain a new type of local politician.
However, Library Technicians should not be expected to undertake unrecompensed overtime or special duties on a regular basis.
With the inconvenience of continual mortality we were forced to give over our intended enterprise to go with Nombre de Dios, and so overland to Panama, where we should have strucken the stroke for the treasure, and full recompense of our tedious travails. Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage
Reckoning she'd already been well-recompensed for her contribution she stood everyone a drink.
On their failure to find the money, Torf-Einar paid it himself, taking in return from the people their odal lands, [18] which were lost to their families until Jarl Sigurd Hlodverson temporarily restored them as a recompense for their assistance in the battle fought by him between Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns
According to The Oregonian, a federal magistrate has awarded her nearly $108,000 in recompense for attorney's fees and other costs associated with her successfully fighting the lawsuit. Woman Wrongfully Targeted By RIAA Lawsuit Awarded $108,000 - The Consumerist
She received a gift as recompense.
I received £500 from the local council in recompense for the damage to my garden.
He had no thought as to whether such toil would be recompensed in coin of the realm; in fact, it was his conviction that it was scarcely likely to bring him any money at all.
Now, he obviously can't completely recompense those who lost their loved ones, but he needs to do what he can to do that.
Why, the very low glow of the fire upon the hearth tells me something of recompense coming in the hereafter, -- Christmas-days, and heartsome warmth; in these bare hills trampled down by armed men, the yellow clay is quick with pulsing fibres, hints of the great heart of life and love throbbing within; The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861
If a man kills a believer intentionally, his recompense is Hell to abide therein (for ever): and the wrath and the curse of Allah are upon him and a dreadful penalty is prepared for him. The Invasion | ATTACKERMAN
William also the earle of Mortaigne, and Warren sonne of king Stephan, were compelled to surrender to king Henrie, the castell of Pemsey, the citie of Norwich, and other townes and castels which he held, apperteining to the demeane of the crowne: to whom the king in recompense restored those lands which his father king Stephan held in the daies of king Henrie the first. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second
Alpaca farmers will be well recompensed for their efforts in farming these rare animals.
What if the IP does not think the recompense is adequate?. Complete Utter Shambles « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
A _mandatary_, or one who undertakes to do an act for another without recompense, in respect to the thing bailed to him, is responsible for gross neglect, if he undertakes and does the work amiss; but it is thought that for agreeing to do, and not undertaking or doing at all, he is not liable for damage. The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens.
The door design is no longer made by the manufacturer concerned and I was offered recompense for one garage door only. Times, Sunday Times
In addition to military restrictions, peace settlements imposed on those states defeated in war have normally entailed measures of economic recompense, in the form of indemnities and reparations.

How To Use Recompense In A Sentence

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