The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday. From LearnThat.org. [Dennis Gabor (1900-1979)]
An act for which there is no reparation. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
There can be no doubt that exacting reparation is just and is fair. From Wordnik.com. [The Social and Economic History of Hungary: Its Present Outlook] Reference
Ngqumba said that matters pertaining to the implementation of long term reparation measures would fall under the justice department. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
She there teaches us that living chemistry, the chemistry of reparation, is something different from the chemistry of the laboratory. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not] Reference
Oh, by the way, this country can't afford to pay "reparation". From Wordnik.com. [Ex-Clintonite makes press-release goof] Reference
It should be borne in mind that "reparation" was defined in the TRC. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
I cannot think of a more effective kind of reparation than to set our minds to reversing that order. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-15] Reference
"I believe she would be delighted!" he said aloud, coming to a sudden standstill; "and, by Jove, it would be a kind of reparation!". From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of To-Day] Reference
I must make some other kind of reparation to you, Captain. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces.] Reference
Greece: bail-out money is 'reparation' for Second World War. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Ask Amy: Pair wed then split - and keep gifts as 'reparation'. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Business News] Reference
'And if Geoffrey Stonor offered you -- er -- "reparation," you'd refuse it?'. From Wordnik.com. [The Convert] Reference
'And if Geoffrey Stonor offered you – er – "reparation," you'd refuse it?'. From Wordnik.com. [The Convert] Reference
By 1900, 80% of Haiti's annual budget went to paying off its "reparation" debt. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
And those 300,000 along with the 350,00 or so Union deaths should be enough "reparation" for anyone. pen44. From Wordnik.com. [ChronWatch - Articles] Reference
When they occupied Malaya, the Chinese were forced to pay a huge sum of money to the Japanese as "reparation". From Wordnik.com. Reference
Religious congregations are to offer €348m in 'reparation', but just €110m will be used as a trust fund for victims. From Wordnik.com. [Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie] Reference
600; the idea of reparation from the mother-country repudiated by. From Wordnik.com. [Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3.] Reference
'reparation' for causing financial loss to the country through over-pricing of. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to A carbon tax, not a cap and trade] Reference
There is only one reparation possible for certain offences. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
For the errors of the wise the remedy is reparation, not regret. From Wordnik.com. [Quotations from Georg Ebers] Reference
Jews here: and furnished them with all things convenient for their reparation. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 45: 1 Machabees The Challoner Revision] Reference
In 1894, Japan easily won a brief war with China and took Taiwan as reparation. From Wordnik.com. [Smoke Alarm] Reference
Jacquemin would then give an explanation; for of reparation Zilah thought little. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
If tomorrow you avenge yourself, I earnestly beg of you, let this reparation suffice. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Formulate the reparation you claim in the name of your client and we will discuss it. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Monsieur Gorka the punishment he deserves, you force me to obtain another reparation. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Its re-dedication will be some reparation for a grave injustice which some blame on Dickens. From Wordnik.com. [Memorial to Pickwick Papers artist resurrected to 'right a moral wrong'] Reference
He longed to make some reparation to a man who, after all, might be only prudent, not unfeeling. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Every one worked for it in some way or other, and believed it was an act of religious reparation to defray the expense. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
If his brother turned out to be a good fellow reparation would be made easier; and, heavens! how badly the man had been treated. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
He is well shod especially in the upper leather, for as for his soles, they are much at reparation, and often faine to be removed. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
These thoughts came into my mind as I finished dressing, and I said to myself that Father Chaufour had a right to reparation from me. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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