Sentence examples for it deserving from inspiring English sources
Obama started his presidency winning the Nobel peace prize, but he ends it deserving some kind of sainthood.
Foreign Minister Chirau Ali Mwakwere said Kenya's leading role in the Sudan and Somalia peace negotiations made it deserving of the designation.
The "times," however interesting (in the ominous, Chinese-derived sense of "living in interesting times"), take up an awful lot of space, not all of it deserving the accorded emphasis.
Furthermore, they seem to misrepresent what it is about crime that makes it deserving of punishment: what makes murder, or rape, or theft, or assault a criminal wrong, deserving of punishment, is surely the wrongful harm that it does to the individual victim not (as on this kind of account) the supposed unfair advantage that the criminal takes over all those who obey the law.
The year 2013 is mercifully drawing to a close, with much of it deserving little more than to be utterly forgotten.
Zero Dark Thirty works as a crime procedural, but its irresponsible, destructive, dishonest stance on torture absolutely ruined it for me, and I feel Zero Dark Thirty should not be on any best-of-the-year lists, nor is it deserving of Oscar consideration.
Does it deserve its reputation?
It deserves its enormous success.
It deserves its exalted status.
It deserves its 'bible' status.
