Sentence examples for deserve points for from inspiring English sources

Karl Ravech of ESPN, who believed the Red Sox would beat the Diamondbacks in the World Series, Mel Antonen of Sports Illustrated, who picked the Diamondbacks to win it all, and Mike Puma of The New York Post, who saw a Phillies-Royals World Series matchup, deserve points for chutzpah, if not accuracy.

deserves points for pluckiness.

Bush deserves points for prescience — but not for courage.

If nothing else, Somers Town deserves points for transparency.

She is not exactly guilty of oversharing — though maybe she deserves points for that, too.

Groove Armada deserves points for taking on the challenge of a traditional live show.

The singer and pianist Steve Ross deserves points for bravery, if for nothing else, in his newest cabaret show, "Love and Laughter: The Sequel".

So it's perhaps understandable that The Green Cockatoo isn't numbered in the front ranks of noir, but Greene deserves points for trying.

Zach Marks, the "top chef" among students in Yale's dining halls ("In a Yale Dining Hall , Independent Studyat the Microwave," Jan . 31, deserves points for creativity -- his satay sounds delicious -- but perhaps not for originality.

While some of the dialogue is heavy-handed ("It's war. Sometimes killing people isn't personal"), it deserves points for at least broaching larger topics for a younger audience usually spoon-fed less thoughtful material.

(Fred Thompson is a special case: his birth name is Freddie, so he is the only candidate to have switched to something more formal. I suppose he deserves points for this).