Sentence examples for Had been deserved from inspiring English sources

— The snickers about Oklahoma Coach Bob Stoops's reputation as Big Game Bob had been deserved.

While Stade will look back at the video and regret the near-turnover they almost secured in front of their own posts prior to Michalak's equalising kick, Noves felt victory had been deserved.

I felt all this guilt and I had to find something a character had done that had been deserving of guilt.

If truth be told, it would not have been deserved.

"I think some of it has been deserved," Mr. Obama said, citing poor policymaking at the Chicago Housing Authority and Chicago public schools.

That reputation might have been deserved, but it was also the product of the same self-confidence that made him such an effective and feared scorer.

Severe periods of underperformance in the past have been deserved, they say, and were not just a matter of risk aversion.

Of course, not all results this season have been deserved, which brings us on to the somewhat vexed issue of Expected Goals.

"I think a point today would've been deserved.

Footballers have received a lot of negative press the past, most of which has been deserved.

"A win and a clean sheet would have been deserved and it's two points dropped".