Sentence examples for higher than deserved from inspiring English sources

Marks that are higher than deserved might temporarily buoy self-esteem, but are ultimately short-sighted.

Having no better food for our hungry imaginations, naturally we romanticized our teachers' mental acquirements and surely graded some of them higher than they deserved.

But if I'd been asked at the time about his teaching, I would definitely have rated him higher than he deserved, although his practicals were nowhere near as well designed as the microbiology ones.

Although a little bit of envy may figure into Reingold's evident disdain for his strongest rival, the author presents several instances where Grubman appeared to have rated stocks higher than they deserved to be in order to win favor with those companies and bring millions of dollars to Salomon Smith Barney.

Washington was co-opted and allowed its dollar to be higher than it deserved to be and others to be too low.

Nobody on the commision board wants to call Rocky an old geezer here, which props this wisdom bomb far higher than it deserves to be.

If there's a speed bump encountered, it would be in the Warhol fast lane, where second- and third-rate works manage to fetch prices higher than they deserve, thanks to collectors and dealers who are ultimately buying and selling the name more than the art itself.

We more than deserved a point.

The statue, being placed higher than life, suggests higher values deserving of a place above the ordinary: the street.

Board officials said that because of the alleged error, about 60,000 students were given higher scores than they deserved on the test of 50 multiple-choice questions.

The Justice Department's lawsuit accused S.& P. of knowingly giving complex packages of mortgages higher ratings than they deserved, stoking investor demand for the securities and driving up prices to where they crashed, setting off the global financial crisis.