Former Labour staffers, moderate refugees fleeing the hard-left takeover under Corbyn, sometimes bristled at what they saw as unmerited swagger in the step of the Downing Street contingent, who expected to easily replicate their victory in the previous May's general election.
For starters, creaking bureaucratic machinery takes thousands of hours to match existing files with a claimant and much of the effort is aimed at disqualifying unmerited claims rather than locating deserving recipients.
I like the definition of grace even more: a free and unmerited favor -- unmerited being the important part.
The Australia captain's fielding matches the standard of his batting and the boos that met his arrival at the crease – a response to the Stokes dismissal at Lord's – were unmerited.
The post-Adamic will is no longer in a position to initiate any choice of lives; the fact that we have any choice at all is entirely a product of unmerited grace [see, e.g. De Gratia et Libero Arbitrio xx and xxi], a grace that will be given to only a small number whom God has predestined to be saved out of the vast number who are eternally lost.
When it was over, it felt like he had been used to tee up Mumford & Sons and their respectful but unmerited turn at the microphone for Album of the Year.
If similar signalling, based on an applicant's schooling, is in action at entry interviews for elite universities, it's not hard to see how a cycle of unmerited privilege could set in.
BACKSTORY Testing organizations have long feared that unmerited accommodations, especially extra time, undermines their exams' integrity.
But could you imagine Cameron or Johnson credibly holding forth about "unmerited hierarchies"?
The use of unmerited patents by pharmaceutical companies to secure monopolies on their products must stop.
The son, Vasily, perished as an alcoholic after rising to unmerited high rank in the Soviet Air Force.
