Sentence examples for meriting respect from inspiring English sources

Her forthright statements to the media, and her accentuated make-up, did not make her popular with the orthodox middle classes, who viewed her as a woman not meriting respect.

She was a controversial figure, alternately loved and loathed, seen as a visionary by some and by others as "a woman not meriting respect".

"[Rezaian] is an experienced, knowledgeable reporter who deserves protection and whose work merits respect".

The unassuming date could also merit respect for providing a pair of tidy bookends in the United States labor movement.

Whether they do or do not merit respect for their erudition, they certainly are easy targets for the mean-spirited.

The Vatican said the dismissal had nothing to do with Charamsa's reflections on his personal life, which it said "merit respect".

Critical opinion was mixed; John J. O'Connor wrote in The New York Times that despite its silly moments, "this great, lumbering production, pulled together with extraordinary determination by Dan Curtis, merits respect".

It was not that Alexa seemed human, exactly, or evoked the operating system voiced by Scarlett Johansson in the film Her, but that it – she – seemed to merit respect.

The scorn was founded on the notion that the dismal state of the Soviet economy had left Gorbachev with "no choice but to cut military spending," as William Safire wrote in The Times, &that since he had to do the things he had done they didn't merit respect.

Achilles is then forced to learn about death, first by the death of his compatriot Patroclus (who seems an unacknowledged lover), then by accepting his own fate, and finally, by recognizing that even his worst enemy merited respect: Hector's body could no longer be dragged around, tied to Achilles' chariot.

But [regular starters] [Aiden] McGeady and [Damien] Duff merit respect".