That group that is somehow 'different' to other offenders and thereby deserving of different treatment.
Ellison, it was said, had lost touch with his roots and his primal energies and had betrayed himself and his race and thereby deserved his punishment in the form of years of futile composition.
She will also expect it to live up to certain standards and thereby deserve her support, devotion, and special concern for its well-being.
Feinberg starts by noting that 'reasonable men naturally entertain certain responsive attitudes toward various actions, qualities, and achievements.' Those who engage in the actions or manifest the qualities thereby deserve to be the subjects of the responsive attitudes.
Actually being guilty and thereby deserving of censure or punishment requires the satisfaction of three conditions: the person held accountable must be the same person as the one who did the act, the act must have been that person's, and he or she must have had some understanding of the moral quality of the act.
In order to justify their trust, they argued that doctors in public hospitals tried to do their best in difficult circumstances, thereby deserving of trust.
The rules governing when a baseball player is first eligible to file for salary arbitration and free agency, and thereby earn what he deserves, are dependent upon his years of major-league service (six, in the case of free agency), so the decision about when a team should start the clock ticking is crucial, and complicated.
Given the stakes, it would be irresponsible for the Senate -- most of whose members have little detailed knowledge of the Yucca proposal -- to decide this issue on the fly, thereby blocking the detailed technical review that it deserves.
Though this approach to science certainly has its place by helping us to understand how the parts of the whole work, it too often ignored the integrity of the whole, thereby decreasing the precision that the scientific method deserves.
