Sentence examples similar to I merited it from inspiring English sources

I was actually embarrassed that he gave us the penalty because I don't think it merited it.

("I thought he merited it").

CHENEY: No, I thought he merited it at the time.

I thought they merited it, playing very well for the last half hour of the firts half and then unpicking Libya's defence (courtesy of a rush of blood from the Libya centre-half who raced out to play offside) in the second.

"I think we merited it over the 90 minutes but certainly the gave us a few frights in the second half".

He called Jerry Wexler to say he had something new to record, later writing, "I don't believe in giving myself advance notices, but I figured this song merited it".

"I didn't think the building merited it," he said.

"If I have a merit, it is that I am not influenced by what other people do," Busemann says.

Given the general eye-glazing impact of most law journal articles it is not too often I use the word searing to describe one but I think this merits it.

Instead, I was to write a modest article – 642 words, as it ended up, less than half the length I figured it merited – about the media riot that followed The Journal's revelation.

"I don't think it has much scientific merit... It's a measure of investment.