"I have been able to spend time with her during the past year and trust that future efforts to show her the love and affection she deserves can be done privately and in peace," he continued.
Determining who is "deserving" can be a moral minefield -- but it's something that has to be considered when we are trying to encourage compassionate behavior.
"Our members have shown that they deserve and can be trusted to run their union".
Despite the bad rap some debt relief outfits get (and deserve), others can be lifelines for people in debt.
The simple act of giving praise to those who deserve it can be a powerful tool that can help counter a culture that often feels harsh, isolating and cold to women.
The fact that Okonedo is less well-known in Britain than her work deserves can partly be attributed to unimaginative casting directors, but also to her deliberate decision to keep a low profile on the party and publicity circuits.
Anything that stops so many bananas being thrown out every day; anything that allows the banana to experience the glory it deserves, can only be a good thing, right?
The punishment deserved is the punishment authorized under a fair penalty schedule; no other conception of deserved punishment can be defended; the perennial lure of an illusory independent criterion for desert, founded ultimately on intuition, as well as of utilitarian calculations, must be resisted.
No Greek before Cimon, nor Roman before Lucullus, ever carried the scene of war so far from their own country; putting out of the question the acts of Bacchus and Hercules, and any exploit of Perseus against the Ethiopians, Medes, and Armenians, or again of Jason, of which any record that deserves credit can be said to have come down to our days.
If societies have the criminals they deserve, perhaps it can be said that crimes inspire the writers they merit.
