Sentence examples for ought to count from inspiring English sources

Durability ought to count for a lot.

That ought to count for something.

Perhaps we ought to count our blessings.

"But things you can count, you ought to count.

Even in Washington, that ought to count for something.

Clearly, styling and the driving experience ought to count for much more.

In this sense, a sample non-egalitarian would be one who believes that people born into a higher social caste, or a favored race or ethnicity, or with an above-average stock of traits deemed desirable, ought somehow to count for more than others in calculations that determine what morally ought to be done.

Though this ought not to count against him in his bid to be mayor, his willingness to over-promise should.

Here is a chart showing China's credit-to-GDP ratio since 2002:(Note that the 200% figure is arrived at after stripping out equity financing, which the central bank includes in its calculation of 'total social financing' but ought not to count as credit).Does this mean that China faces a debt crisis?

The standard objection to this kind of analysis of intelligence (mind, thought) is that a being whose behavior was produced by "brute force" methods ought not to count as intelligent (as possessing a mind, as having thoughts).

If I decide it would be best not to turn on the light when checking on my sleeping baby, but then a violent sneeze causes my arm to fly up and hit the light switch, thus turning on the light, this ought not to count as an incontinent action on my part; and it does not, on Davidson's criteria.