Sentence examples similar to merited distinctions from inspiring English sources

A letter of Fronto to Antoninus is extant asking the appointment of his friend Appian as procurator, not to gratify his ambition, or for the sake of the pay, but as a merited distinction in his old age.

Nonetheless, an appeal is merited.

That criticism, while merited, has its limits.

Will Harries provided the Dragons with merited consolation.

Is this merited, is it justified?

Who do you think merited inclusion?

My preface is a simple but merited statement.

"We think his concerns are probably not merited," it said.

It was a thoroughly merited victory, and an impressive one.

This hardly merited air time on the BBC.

He claimed that they had entered Iran illegally and would have merited punishment in any country.