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How to use the word restitution in a Sentence?

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The city feels vindicated in today’s ruling that he is being held accountable and that we will appropriately receive restitution for his actions.

Lori Lightfoot

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This will help in proper restitution and compensation for everyone who must have been wronged. I want to assure you, a white paper will be issued. I am going to constitute a committee to review the document between two weeks and bring out a white paper.

Babajide Sanwo-Olu

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He should have been deported multiple times, and she deserves restitution.

Dana Perino

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Until police agencies are going to really be responsible for this kind of restitution -- and share liability by individual cops who have some skin in the game -- until that happens, Fernando Bermudez are not going to see changes in police culture or policy, qualified immunity, eliminating it, is not just a reform about restitution, but it is also about incentivizing change in the police agency.

Leon Brown

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Reparations for African Americans are based on paying restitution for 250 years of slavery followed by 100 years of racial apartheid, which we often call Jim Crow. So it's really an attempt to address both the moral harm, and the crime that slavery and Jim Crow were, but also the wealth gap that was created by both of these institutions.

Nikole Hannah-Jones

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I understand the frustration, i think it's important to understand that he was going to get off with no jail time or restitution. It was the work of our office that resulted in him going to jail.

Alex Acosta

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The only reason Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis're paying restitution is because Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis were convicted of a felony.

Ron DeSantis

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The amendment says, if you read it, that you have to complete your sentence. And I think most people understand you can be sentenced to jail, probation, restitution if you harm someone. You can be sentenced with a fine. People that bilk people out of money, sometimes that's an appropriate sentence. That's what the constitutional provision said.

Ron DeSantis

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The only reason you're paying restitution is because you were convicted of a felony.

Ron DeSantis

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Every restitution is a victory for us, i cannot make any promises.

Nina Zimmer

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

There are survivors who find meaning in the criminal justice system, but I think that for many, the chance to have control over a case, to stand up in court, to receive financial restitution from the person who wronged them can be very meaningful to them.

Alexandra Brodsky

Found on CNN
6 years ago

It is urgent that countries provide restitution or compensation now, while the remaining survivors are alive to benefit.

The WJRO Taylor

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

[S]ome countries, particularly Poland, have not yet addressed the legacy of property looted during the Holocaust, it is urgent that countries provide restitution or compensation now, while the remaining survivors are alive to benefit.

The WJRO Taylor

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We announce we are entering those municipalities hardest hit by violence, it's a huge challenge in terms of restitution and we will do justice in the heart of areas where people were forced to abandon their lands and were dispossessed of their lands by the FARC.

Ricardo Sabogal

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The employee apologized for his actions and subsequently resigned from The University. The University will not advocate that the employee be prosecuted in connection with this incident and is not seeking restitution. the University could be termed as civil disobedience.

Corey Menafee

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We also need to talk about forms of seeking financial compensation or restitution by the occupying power.

Robert Piper

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It's not easy to push ahead with a process of land restitution in the middle of a conflict, that's why peace is so important, so that families can go back quickly and safely to their lands.

Ricardo Sabogal

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I can tell you that 90 percent of the thousands and thousands of works of art people are searching for still can't be found today. So that gives you an indication of how hard it is to obtain restitution.

Anne Webber

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The Dodd-Frank Act provides a powerful new tool for state regulators to pursue wrongdoing and obtain restitution for consumers who were abused.

Benjamin Lawsky

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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