Sentence examples for it merited it from inspiring English sources

I was actually embarrassed that he gave us the penalty because I don't think it merited it.

However, since the single had clearly not received the attention it merited, it could be argued that George was simply husbanding his resources carefully".

To the Editor: Regarding "Virginia's Lost History" (Nov. 25), I think a reason Virginia isn't visited as often as it merits (it is one of the most beautiful and historic states on the Eastern Seaboard), and the Northern Neck in particular, is evident in many of the comments on the Travel Web site: the abiding haze of slavery surrounds so many of the historic areas and sites.

I hope you're fortunate enough to have a principal investigator or adviser who acknowledges and praises your work when it merits it.

He did not want to "diminish the importance of design" but to "establish three things in defense of color: first, that color is just as necessary to the art of painting as design; secondly, that if we diminish the worth of color, we thereby also diminish the worth of painters; and thirdly, that color merited the praise of the Ancients, and that it merits it again in our own age" (AT, 178-179).

("I thought he merited it").

"If you take the name off the application and analyze it on its merits, it just doesn't make sense".

If Mr. Summers's statement falls on its merits, it will be because it will be thoroughly investigated and then summarily rejected.

Sure, it has its merits, but it fell short of the science-fiction holy grail.

Part of the reason the public has lost confidence in our product is that it sometimes does not merit it.

The funds "that need the service the most are often the ones whose performances merit it the least," it said.