Sentence examples for deserves a certain from inspiring English sources

And like everyone, he deserves a certain level of compensation".

Furthermore, it would make it possible for there to be cases in which someone both deserves a certain treatment and also deserves not to get that treatment.

What on earth has Liu Zhijun done that deserves a certain death penalty?... Our bosses today are not so weak or silly as to let public opinion pressurise the judicial system".

In general, then, we might say that the claim that S deserves a certain benefit (burden) in virtue of having done X is justified if and only if it would be fitting for observers to have a positive (negative) appraising attitude toward S in virtue of his having done X.

Under normal circumstances I'd say that MTV deserves a certain amount of credit for thinking outside of the box in an attempt to get young people who might not be interested in politics involved in the process.

Our children deserve a certain standard of care.

If people are going to give time and money and energy, she added, "they deserve a certain amount of control and say.

"We think we deserve a certain amount of allowance and acknowledgment for the fact that we are serving a special-needs population," said Mr. Lundahl, the teachers' union chapter leader at the school.

The fact that many Americans did not believe that many of the rackets and other types of illegal gambling which have provided the economic base for some of the uglier forms of organized crime were innately immoral or socially destructive and therefore deserved a certain grudging tolerance on the part of law-enforcement agencies contributed to the prosperity of syndicate operations.

In the mainstream press, she was said to have produced a thoughtful, deeply researched, compassionate book about a subject most people know very little about, one which these reviewers often implied deserved a certain amount of scepticism and ridicule: modern pagan witches.

Even though we may deserve all sorts of things, only instances of someone's deserving a certain welfare level are instances of "moral desert".