Sentence examples for deserves not just from inspiring English sources

Everyone deserves not just to survive, but to live.

"Everyone deserves not just to survive but to live," McQueen continued.

And my father, thank you. "The last word: everyone deserves not just to survive, but to live.

Updated at 6.28am GMT 5.04am GMT Leaping to victory "Everyone deserves not just to survive but to live," director Steve McQueen tells the world.

Caro is the last of the 19th-century biographers, the kind who believe that the life of a great or powerful man deserves not just a slim volume, or even a fat one, but a whole shelf full.

But just as central to the success of this film is the character conjured by F Murray Abraham, a performance that you feel deserves not just the Oscar it won, but several more on top.

People deserve not just dignity in old age but an independent and high-quality life.

They deserve not just a viable opposition but a government in waiting – and currently we are not".

For an audience of involved parents and doted-on sons and daughters, Seymour Glass's notion that children deserved not just love but respect would have seemed just right.

The fire, it seemed, sharpened people's senses – even among those who had not actually visited the Maltings – that here was something that deserved not just rebuilding but development, a concert hall and arts centre with unique atmosphere.

Morgan Tsvangirai and the MDC majority deserve not just words of comfort or any sort of consolation position but rather to be invested in office according to the results of the 29 March elections.