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- adjective Referring to that which is
reparation .
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Examples
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When you fight for reparational uplift, you have to fit yourself into a victim-focused, protest identity that is at once angry and needy.
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I believe the greatest problem black America has had over the past 30 years has been precisely a faith in reparational uplift -- the idea that all the injustice we endured would somehow translate into the means of uplift.
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Shirer-ism doesn ` t really hold up today anymore, but there ` s enough to it that the Lutheran churches, the -- the Evangelical Church in America, formally goes on the record with abject, total surrender and reparational kind of thing, which is why an author like I has to say, I ` m bound never to defend what he did.
Martin Luther 2004
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The failure of the weak post-war Weimar Republic and the factional warfare between the radical left and the extreme right, coupled with the devastated economy in a time of global economic failure, one moreover bankrupted by what most Germans considered the excessive reparational demands of the Treaty of Versailles, were all instrumental in paving the way for the inexorable rise of Adolf Hitler's National Socialist Party, the Nazis.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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The failure of the weak post-war Weimar Republic and the factional warfare between the radical left and the extreme right, coupled with the devastated economy in a time of global economic failure, one moreover bankrupted by what most Germans considered the excessive reparational demands of the Treaty of Versailles, were all instrumental in paving the way for the inexorable rise of Adolf Hitler's National Socialist Party, the Nazis.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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