Sentence examples for been deserved from inspiring English sources

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

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

It feels that austerity has somehow been deserved even though those primarily responsible are not the ones being hurt.

"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.

The plaudits were deserved.

The embarrassment was deserved.

The praise is deserved.

They were deserved.

It is deserved.