Moreover, this person said, the Obiang problem erased whatever good will Riggs had earned by righting its monitoring woes over the last year.
If you publish for national journals or publications, it is a right you have "earned" by proving compelling information within the magazine's rules.
The abuse of rental cars is a right we've earned by touring for so long.
Lincoln gave several speeches referring to the rights black people had earned by enlisting in the Union Army, for instance.
I feel my work has earned the right to be judged by you, the public".
It's a vicious self-flagellation in which he concedes that his woman has earned the right to torture him by flirting (or more) with another man, a punishment for his own misdeeds: "Maybe I deserve for you to put on that sexy dress/For me to ask you, 'Who the hell you trying to impress?' " This is Tank at his best, a proud roughneck who's broken on the inside.
And, arguably at least, the officeholder has earned a right to that office by virtue of the vote that a second vote may take away.
And though that early reference to heaven on earth -- hovering and poised to be contradicted -- is answered by the end of "Lost Boys of Sudan," by then the film has earned the right to do so.
"The examination must make him feel he has earned the right to go to college by his own efforts, not that he is entitled to college admission because of his innate abilities or aptitudes, regardless of what he has done in high school," Dr. Lindquist said at a testing conference at the time.
But my feeling is that Woods has earned the right to flout the rules observed by mere mortals.
By the end, you feel she has earned the right to declare that "the life I live is irredeemably corrupt".
