• There has been a strong move towards redistribution of land and restitution of land rights that were taken away from large numbers of people during the days of the apartheid policy of moving blacks from white areas to black homelands.
• The convent thus entered into an additional case with the inheritors of Teresa de Figueroa's estate, seeking the eventual restitution of amounts that her nieces and nephews claimed.
• After the democratic transformation of 1994, programs for land restitution, redistribution, and reform were instituted, but progress has been slow.

Synonyms

• Win is luckier in that the constable's search reveals her stolen property; poor Frances has only promises of gifts toward her loss by her employers and the hopes of restitution by the Lord Justices whom she is petitioning.
• However, in the highlands, where there is little cultivated land, privatization may entail restitution, as families respect traditional ownership.
• Since such legislation is not compatible, in my view, with Community law, they should, in principle, be entitled to seek restitution for those payments.

Synonyms

• The central action of the play celebrates the marriage of Ferdinand and Miranda as the instrument of dynastic restitution that accords with their desires.
• The gold-mining industry, powerhouse of early twentieth-century growth, was constrained by the restitution of a fixed price for gold against the dollar after the war.