Sentence examples for deserved rather than from inspiring English sources

And they deploy that cultural difference to suggest that the inequality and immobility in our society is deserved rather than inherited.

But how he enthused a generation of cricket fans with his impudence, skill, courage and cartwheels and that New Zealand tour was the finale he deserved rather than what happened at Edgbaston five months later.

Unfortunately for his biographers, Poe had a tendency to provide himself with the life story he felt he deserved rather than the one he actually had – a trait which he compounded by choosing as his executor a clergyman who hated him, and who systematically vilified his memory.

For present purposes, the important point is that this notion of payback is better understood as a theory that purports to explain why punishment is deserved, rather than as providing the meaning of retributive justice.

The president should support policies that help citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs they need and deserve, rather than fail to enforce immigration laws".

But viewers needed to see him evolve into the person Mindy deserves, rather than just being a fleeting love interest, or the subject of seasons-long uncertainty.

That would have ensured that his artworks would be treated with the love and respect they deserve, rather than the shabby treatment they've had from the trustees.

The onus is then on others to examine it with the seriousness it deserves, rather than dismissing that possibility out of hand.

Imitation may be the highest form of flattery, but it's time for the fashion establishment to give African designers the credit and exposure they deserve, rather than just ripping off their heritage.

Writing in the Guardian, Michael Cragg said: "Its delicate anger and the measured way it unpacks a host of issues means you want to give it the time it deserves rather than demanding it reveal itself immediately".

And it would mean the cynical fouls outside the area get the punishment they deserve rather than the red card that clearly does not currently act as enough of a deterrent – Serbia, for example, would have been given a spot-kick after Josip Simunic's challenge here, as would West Ham in the 1980 FA Cup final.