Sentence examples for merited as from inspiring English sources

Both are well merited, as far as he is concerned.

In sprawling English histories, it's usually the first volume that poses the heaviest sledding: Hume complained that the skirmishes of crows merited as much particular narrative as the quarrels of the Saxon kings, while Macaulay famously skipped past centuries' worth of reigns in a few pages, eager to get to what interested him.

For ethical reasons but also due to limited resources physicians need early and reliable outcome predictors to identify cases where aggressive treatment for cure or potential liver transplantation is merited, as well as those where such care is likely futile.

He disappeared into one of seven S.U.V.s, escorted by a dozen police vehicles — a larger motorcade than Mitt Romney merited as the Republican nominee.

I worry when they pile headlong out of the house, and often the worry is merited — as when a boy straggles home with his first-ever wasp sting — and second-ever, and third-ever, all at once.

As a Dane and a Brit, who were in our formative years when the Berlin Wall fell, and the E.U. enlarged to take in countries of Central and Eastern Europe, we believe that the peace prize is merited — as a reminder of history and a pointer to the future.

Does Dorothy Canfield Fisher really merit as much space as Elizabeth Bishop?

Art should be valued on its own merits as well as for its financial rewards.

Kentucky has earned its label as a potential upset victim on merit as well.

"If you fail, you fail on your own merits as well".

The voodoo priest, Mamassa Babalakoun, was apparently convinced of the merits as well.