Sentence examples for it hardly merits from inspiring English sources

I can understand that the Queen thinks its publication "disappointing", but it hardly merits condemnation.

Financially, it hardly merits a mention.

It's not a bad film at all, though it hardly merits the ecstasies that have been poured over it in the press and on the net.

"If I talk about going to a maternity ward with my wife and all the medics are with people from a bombing, for an Israeli person that is so normal that it hardly merits any attention".

It hardly merits saying that there are, unfortunately, men who assume a woman (and make no mistake — it is always this way round) will absolutely go home with them, provided they play the right game.

It hardly merits saying that most of us aspire to steer clear of this mentality--you don't need to be a yogi these days to encounter frequent instructions to "be present," or "live in the moment".

In fact, it was so small and shabby it hardly merited being called a square; it was little more than a patch of green beside a solitary street lamp.

If The Last Man in Russia were only a philippic in this style, it would hardly merit further attention.

Although the Moonglows were elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000, it was hardly merited in terms of chart success; but Fuqua had determined a new style of singing, known as blow harmony, which involved groups singing through their breaths to achieve a deeper sound.

So why is it, then, that he hardly merits a mention when the nation's media speculates about who might be lifting the World Championship trophy aloft on 2 May?

Mr. Dutoit opened the program with Shostakovich's "Festive Overture," a blustery curtain-raiser that hardly merits being programmed, although here it showed the Philadelphia's brass and winds at their gleaming best.