Sentences with 'compensation'
Example sentences and phrases with the word compensation and other words derived from it.
• « In October the Bolsheviks took control of the most powerful Soviet, Petrograd (formerly St. Petersburg). The Bolsheviks then took control of the Duma (Russian representative assembly), expelled members of other political parties, and then declared their intention to pursue goals that no other major party had been willing to achieve: unconditional peace with Germany and land for the peasants without compensation for the landowners. »
• « Supreme Court Justice John Jay was sent to Britain, with instructions from Hamilton to secure compensation for captured American ships; ensure that the British abandoned the northwestern outposts they still held despite the 1783 Treaty of Paris; and secure an agreement for American trade in the West Indies. »
• « Although Jay personally disliked slavery, his mission also required him to seek compensation from the British for the slaves who left with the British at the end of the Revolutionary War. »