Sentence examples for isn't earned from inspiring English sources

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The finale certainly isn't earned, but all the nasty, tiny jolts throughout the movie do prick the skin nicely.

The leaseholder was offended and said, "I don't want anything that isn't earned or deserved," Mr. Barney recalls.

"There are strict taboos against money that isn't earned with sweat from the brow," said Mayumi Torii, a 41-year-old mother of one who said she earned $150,000 since she started margin trading in currencies early last year.

The most cavalier treatment is given to a mystery woman who at first seems a marginal bit player, then proves to have a key role; yet what happens to her is so nasty and so implausible that the revelatory shock just isn't earned.

But Lucian Bebchuk, director of the corporate governance program at Harvard Law School, says the recent troubles in the financial sector highlight the need to follow a basic principle when arranging executive compensation plans: "If it isn't earned, it should be returned".

But trust isn't earned by showing off only your Sunday best.

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But it isn't earning much interest.

He isn't earning any money.

No one would suggest anymore that Kovi isn't earning his keep.

But here's another possible reason the ban isn't earning support: The timing.

And the project isn't earning its cost of capital".

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