Powell's identity as an icon of the women's game, whose contribution to the sport has merited an OBE and a CBE for her services, has always gone unquestioned.
The party's performance in that year's European election had caused a review in the BBC's stance on whether the party merited an invite.
MPs decided that this merited a Commons vote.
As for the Czech Republic, they merited their win tonight for weathering the early Polish storm before calmly taking a stranglehold on the game, eventually wearing Poland down in the second half and taking their best chance clinically.
In response he bristled that there were two types of stories, those that merited much less than 600 words and those on which he would like to write many more, "but there is nothing about which I would like to write exactly 600 words".
Only the most astute of insects could have guessed that Alan Greenspan's waffle about "irrational exuberance" and Osama bin Laden's ludicrous declaration of jihad against the United States, both from 1996, merited further attention.
Given the thrust of his argument, that r is typically larger than g, the prospect of low rates for years to come ought to have merited some discussion.
At the turn of the 19th century, wealth merited much discussion.
But in Ratan Tata's case, the attention is merited.
It was smaller than the swing to the Conservatives at Crewe and Nantwich, a similar mid-term by-election during the last parliament.UKIP's showing generated more interest than the national picture merited, much of it stirred-up by anti-EU Tories historically prone to suspending disbelief when it comes to that party's prospects.
Mr Woodford had just told the board that the unusual payments merited investigation.
