Sentence examples for merited all from inspiring English sources

Perhaps it never merited all that money and time.

Congratulations were heard, and merited, all across the Capitol.

If we really believe that we've created (or could even one day create) a world where the successful truly merited all their success, it necessarily follows that we have to hold the failures exclusively responsible for their failures.

Though organizations like to milk anniversaries, you could question whether a 120th quite merited all this.

Craig Marberry, the author with Michael Cunningham of "Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats" (Doubleday), said Mrs. Bush's hat merited all the attention, because it will offer a revealing glimpse of the new first lady.

When the party leadership held a news conference last week to oppose the president's tax-cut plan, it was all but ignored, while hearings on the Rich pardon merited all-day coverage on the all-news cable channels.

"You merit all the scorn of this community," he said.

They merit all the understanding that their fellow Canadians, and the rest of us, have to give.

A truly dynamite farewell show requires planning, time, manpower – ego, in other words, because it requires belief from the star that they merit all this hoopla around their departure.

When Cosby's own application there is submitted, he'll merit all the praise that we can give him.

Although few high profile politicians shed tears on the campaign trail, did that moment really merit all the hoopla?