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  • noun Plural form of solatium.

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Examples

  • The Americans 'error was explained to them by village elders, so they fetched out what they term "solatia", or compensation.

    Afghanistan war logs: Secret CIA paramilitaries' role in civilian deaths 2010

  • Surely this only scratches the surface, as Walter Pincus observed yesterday in a Washington Post article on the "solatia" or condolence payments that I have often written about.

    David Fiderer: Proof that the "Debunking" of the Scott Thomas Beauchamp Story was a Conspiracy to Defraud 2008

  • These voluntary payments -- known as "solatia" payments -- can also cover injuries and loss or damage to property.

    Sunday, June 17, 2007 As'ad 2007

  • Insisting that such "solatia" or "ex-gratia payments" are made from a unit's own funds on a purely discretionary basis, ISAF says the spirit of the measure has been misinterpreted.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Habiburrahman Ibrahimi 2010

  • The Americans 'error was explained to them by village elders, so they fetched out what they term "solatia", or compensation.

    Mail & Guardian Online 2010

  • Insisting that such "solatia" or "ex-gratia payments" are made from a unit's own funds on a purely discretionary basis, ISAF says the spirit of the measure has been misinterpreted.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Habiburrahman Ibrahimi 2010

  • Insisting that such "solatia" or "ex-gratia payments" are made from a unit's own funds on a purely discretionary basis, ISAF says the spirit of the measure has been misinterpreted.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Habiburrahman Ibrahimi 2010

  • Insisting that such "solatia" or "ex-gratia payments" are made from a unit's own funds on a purely discretionary basis, ISAF says the spirit of the measure has been misinterpreted.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Habiburrahman Ibrahimi 2010

  • "solatia" payments from the U.S. military, and often enough the dead were buried in unmarked graves or no graves at all.

    Antiwar.com Original 2010

  • When civilian family members are actually killed in Afghanistan, their relatives do, in fairness, get greater solatia payments than cans of beans and Hershey bars.

    Afghanistan war logs: Secret CIA paramilitaries' role in civilian deaths 2010

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