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Redress
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Compensation for injuries sustained; recovery or restitution for harm or injury; damages or equitable relief. Access to the courts to gain Reparation for a wrong.


REDRESS. The act of receiving satisfaction for an injury sustained. For the mode of obtaining redress, vide Remedies 1 Chit. Pr. Annal. Table.


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Fleshing out the texture of spiritual experience by exploring active community virtues like charity (the focus of John Henderson's studies of confraternities), Eckstein redresses the balance of Ronald Weissman's picture of these groups as refuges from agonistic social relations: "Drago emerges as a community whose everyday life was steeped to an extraordinary degree in religious symbol and metaphor, to the point that the sacred became indistinguishable from temporal concerns" (xxi).
Actuate's strategy of designing its Enterprise Reporting Platform to be adopted by 100% of the target user base redresses the balance, providing information consumers with the Enterprise Reporting Applications that they need to maximize corporate performance.
 
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