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Example sentences for "redress"

Lexicographically close words:
redoutable; redoute; redowa; redpolls; redrawn; redresse; redressed; redressement; redresser; redressing
  1. Public Roads--not to be encroached upon: persons aggrieved thereby, to obtain redress by complaint to the nearest magistrate.

  2. Every description of persons to obtain redress by action or indictment; and persons beating prisoners assigned them, to forfeit such future indulgence.

  3. They earnestly plead for redress of such oppressions, and complain that the King's former letters on the subject have been suppressed by the officers inculpated.

  4. Their complaints and demands for redress of grievances can no longer be passed by in silent contempt.

  5. The offer, in the name of the faculty, of these propositions put a stop to the difficulty for the time, and the settlement of the question of redress so unjustifiably and tyrannically urged by Louis XIV.

  6. He had long advocated the redress of Catholic wrongs.

  7. Even agrarianism is proposed, and incendiarism attempted, in order to redress whatever wrongs the toiler really suffers, or imagines he suffers, unjustly.

  8. I will know if People feel yet any redress Of his former sores, and of his rueful distress.

  9. But how shall this redress be well persecuted, If justice with mercy shall be executed?

  10. And now will I seek Shamefacedness, By whom I trust I shall redress All my misdeed.

  11. Well, I must go hence to another count[r]y now, That hath of redress the like case that was in you.

  12. Edward's little army could do nothing to redress a balance that already inclined so heavily on the other side.

  13. They offered a programme of limited monarchy, of the redress of grievances, of vested rights preserved, and of adhesion to the good old traditions that all Englishmen respected.

  14. A commission of twenty-four was appointed who were to redress the grievances of the nation, and to draw up a new scheme of government.

  15. At last even the Welsh who had helped Edward to put down Llewelyn saw that they had been preparing their own ruin, and turned to their former enemy for the redress refused them at Westminster.

  16. More essential points were the re-enactment of the Charters and the redress of some of the grievances against which the Provisions of 1258 were directed.

  17. Failing to obtain redress in England, Richard betook himself to Rome in the spring of 1231.

  18. The cause of schism is yours, for you thrust us out from you because we called for truth and the redress of abuses.

  19. She had, since, made repeated inquiries of the police, but could obtain no information from them, nor any redress for the false imprisonment she had suffered.

  20. Your case would in some instances demand redress but I repeatedly avow not if considered in the light of reason.

  21. When the Montenegrins rose against their Turkish oppressors, Austria supported their cause and demanded a redress of their grievances from Turkey.

  22. When brought to bay afterward in Parliament, he could proudly boast: "I called the New World into being, in order to redress the balance of the Old.

  23. The entire theory of the duello makes it impossible for one to ask redress for an injury which he has long permitted to go unredressed.

  24. Eaton had been denounced in Congress, and had a claim against the government; Burr tempted him with an opportunity to redress his wrongs and satisfy his claim.

  25. Legal redress is therefore rarely sought for, and still more rarely obtained by the injured convict.

  26. Then Christians, ceasing from party strife and sectarian dissension, will unite in one mighty effort to cure the evils of humanity and redress its wrongs.

  27. Should they refuse justice, I am told you may have redress by application to a court on the spot, or to a tribunal at Paris, which takes cognizance of whatever relates to the farmers.

  28. Some symptoms make me suspect, that my proceedings to redress the abusive administration of tobacco by the Farmers General have indisposed towards me a powerful person in Philadelphia, who was profiting from that abuse.

  29. The masters and students failing to obtain redress departed from Paris in anger.

  30. During that time the keys of the city passed from mayor to prior, and the town courts were closed in favour of the Pie-Powder Court,[2] held by the steward of the priory for the redress of all disorders committed during the fair.

  31. If France and England had unitedly protested against the Neapolitan abuse of power and violation of law, such a protest would have been heard and redress granted, but such joint action was not taken.

  32. From the same princely source, also, funds were forthcoming to obtain legal redress for his hardships, and to prosecute his claims before the courts.

  33. His first attempt to secure redress was by an action at law.

  34. It was then that young Wilmot resolved to enter upon a political career and to do what he could to redress the wrongs from which the people were suffering.

  35. Thus I hung, without any crime committed, and without judge or jury; merely because I was a free man, and could not by the law get any redress from a white person in those parts of the world.

  36. I exhorted the man to look up still to the God on the top, since there was no redress below.

  37. We are about to teach them that our long forbearance has not proceeded from an insensibility to wrongs or an inability to redress them.

  38. Is it worth the character of American soldiers, who take up arms to redress the wrongs of our injured country, to assume no better models than those furnished them by barbarians?


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "redress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adjust; amend; amends; annul; apology; atone; atonement; avenge; balancing; commutation; compensate; compensation; composition; compromise; consideration; correct; correction; counteract; counteraction; damages; disabuse; emend; expiate; expiation; frustrate; honorarium; improve; indemnification; indemnify; indemnity; make; meed; mend; mending; negate; negative; neutralize; offset; offsetting; overhaul; pay; price; propitiate; propitiation; quit; quittance; reclamation; recompense; recoup; rectification; rectify; redeem; redemption; redress; refund; reimburse; reimbursement; relief; remedy; remunerate; remuneration; repair; reparation; repay; repayment; reprisal; requital; requite; restitution; retaliation; retribution; return; revenge; reward; right; salvage; sanction; satisfaction; satisfy; square; squaring; substitution; vindicate