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Meanings of amends in English
A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury.
Catalan
indemnització Spanish
indemnización Synonyms
Examples for "damages"
Examples for "damages"
1
The World Health Organisation, for example, says that this damages your hearing.
2
But Britain risks being stuck with a government that damages its economy.
3
Oaxaca's civil protection agency said there have been no reports of damages.
4
The increase, however, was not to recoup losses incurred by recent damages.
5
The racketeering claim could have resulted in triple damages under state law.
1
Latin government actions seen to redress unequal treatment tend to draw applause.
2
Moves are already afoot to get New Labour to redress the situation.
3
The best thing you can do to improve the problem is redress.
4
And so back to looking ahead and to redress our current position.
5
In such circumstances, members of the public have little chance of redress.
1
In victim restitution cases, the limit is 25 percent of the benefit.
2
The states said they intend to seek restitution, damages and civil penalties.
3
A strong interdisciplinary collaboration is needed for diagnosis restitution and patient treatment.
4
Guilt is the object, restitution is the shadow; the following is fatal.
5
The victims can only wait and see what their restitution will be.
1
Employers should steer clear of hospital indemnity policies and dread disease policies.
2
Such, then, is the sanction of the social right of expropriation: indemnity.
3
He demanded the whole of Thessaly and a large indemnity in money.
4
Then immediately the question of loans to pay off the indemnity arose.
5
No, since he prefers to stop at the idea of an indemnity.
1
Western MacArthur sued USF&G and two other insurers in 1993 seeking indemnification.
2
It also said indemnification claims were more than the amount held in escrow.
3
Among the changes they are seeking is indemnification against judicial decisions against them.
4
There is not only the remission by indemnification but the remission by abnegation.
5
The aristocracy consented to it, because we had guaranteed full indemnification.
Usage of amends in English
1
He made amends in the final session, however, qualifying ahead of Raikkonen.
2
Find some way to make amends; to help them sleep soundly again.
3
However he quickly made amends, dismissing Steve Smith with an absolute hanger.
4
You know, to sort of make amends for splitting up a family.
5
To make amends, I am in the mood to praise it now.
6
But perhaps it is not too late for me to make amends.
7
Maybe it might be better to try to make amends in person.
8
We will make amends at Orlando Stadium because it is our home.
9
We thus hoped to make amends for the smallness of our numbers.
10
But the satisfaction of being together again made amends for all else.
11
The first answer that she received made some amends for previous disappointment.
12
Fortune made amends for the harshness she had shown him at Milan.
13
You cannot make amends for the shame you have brought upon me.
14
This might finally be the time for the Academy to make amends.
15
I would see to it that amends were made -afterwe escaped.
16
My companion, however, made me amends in some measure for this loss.
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United States of America
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