Sentence examples for failed to merit from inspiring English sources

The series was successfully nominated in 2009, but failed to merit an award.

And finally it fails to merit notice at all.

But critics say it is used too broadly, is applied inconsistently, and too often criminalizes behavior that fails to merit the full weight of federal prosecution.

Mr. Greenberg has become increasingly prolific since he won a Tony Award for the gay-baseball-player comedy "Take Me Out," churning out plays that always receive first-class productions but increasingly fail to merit them.

The question of why the majority of missing persons cases fail to merit mention but that of Ms Yeates dominated the news became particularly pertinent earlier this month when celebrities used their Twitter accounts to highlight the case of Serena Beakhurst, a 14-year-old girl who had been missing since 15 December but attracted no media attention.

It is hard to see how these achievements fail to merit honor.

Taxpayers should know that we have not hesitated to reject proposals that have failed to meet our merit-based standards.

On other occasions, Mr. Yates defended the endowment from critics who failed to discern the merit in erotic photographs and creativity expressed through dung or urine.

His commanding officer failed to acknowledge the merit of the plan and chided the candidate for not having fired a single shot.

To be fair, her qualification that there was "perhaps" too much enthusiasm for diversity in contrast to merit failed to make it into the Hansard transcript – but there again neither did her colleagues' gentle titter which followed her remark.

Shareholders failed to see the merits of this trade-off and increasingly worried about the durability of Cisco's profits.