Sentence examples for sometimes deserved from inspiring English sources

Pain is sometimes deserved.

NRL officials have been – quite rightly – slammed all season for controversy after stinking controversy, sometimes deserved and sometimes beaten-up.

During that first term, McCain bolstered his reputation, sometimes deserved, as a "maverick" willing to work with Democrats on such issues as normalizing relations with Vietnam, campaign-finance reform, and immigration reform.

Much more often they do it to persuade you to buy product B rather than product A. It's how they earn their money, serve their client's interests and, as a by-product, attract a lot of opprobrium – sometimes deserved, sometimes not.

Sometimes deserved treatment is expedient; sometimes it is not.

Many banks shy away from check-cashing outlets because of their sometimes deserved reputations as havens for money laundering and usurious paycheck lending.

Homo sapiens sapiens sometimes deserves his double plus for intelligence.

I think readers may sometimes deserve help in sorting out whether the secret government document trumpeted on Newspaper A's front page is the same one they heard touted on the radio two days ago.

In the book, Ms. Kaplan draws on a wealth of far-flung archival evidence to illuminate the lives of white women who might have arrived in Harlem as slummers and tourists but stayed as patrons, activists, hostesses and wives, courting — and sometimes deserving — suspicion and ridicule from both sides of the color line.

Second, you have the sense that Apple sometimes deserves these leaks.

Assuming that wrongdoers can, at least sometimes, deserve punishment, the next question is: why think others may punish them just because they are deserving?