Sentence examples for otherwise merit from inspiring English sources

Wimbledon is manically depressed and a side effect of this disease is that other players do not receive the recognition they would otherwise merit.

His status as a homegrown player who'd come through the academy meant his release was met with more scrutiny and questioning than his status as bit part player would otherwise merit.

Georgia has in recent years taken on a prominence far greater than its small size would otherwise merit, in large part because under Mr. Saakashvili, it had been considered a model for countries trying to shed decades of despotism and decay.

Moreover, it's not just military, but political; fighting the EU army could mean killing soldiers from all across Europe, creating many, more serious diplomatic confrontations than an isolated hostile action might otherwise merit.

This was the matchup that Billups was signed for, enticing the Pistons' general manager, Joe Dumars, to hand him more money and responsibility than his vagabond career in the N.B.A. would have otherwise merited.

In one such instance, an officer opted to lie and risk his career when he accidentally discharged his pepper spray while dining in a restaurant a violation that otherwise merits minor discipline.

It was upsetting because it was an extreme example of people seizing on casual, careless anti-Semitism in the service of critiques that might otherwise hold merit.

Last December, the justice secretary said he intended to restrict IPPs to offenders who would otherwise have merited a fixed sentence of 10 years.

Normally you'd only find this sort of thing lurking late at night on BBC2, but presumably the guiding hand of Davis "An Inconvenient Truth" Guggenheim is getting it a little more exposure than it might otherwise have merited.

However, he also insisted that the directing team should be chosen entirely on merit, otherwise "you would undermine what the competition is supposed to be about".

Even when charges were brought, supervisors and prosecutors rejected over 11,000 of them because they lacked probable cause or otherwise did not merit being pursued.