Cody and four other civilian scouts who rendered distinguished service in action, and who were therefore considered by the board to have fully earned their medals, had theirs restored in 1989.
I really wanted to like it, and there are some laughs, but the film doesn't fully earn our sentimental indulgence, and there is a persistent sort of Britfilm lameness, 2-D characterisation and soft-focus comedy.
Perhaps the only blemish is an occasional tendency, after the real poem is over, to add a few words or lines to raise it to some epigrammatic epiphany it hasn't fully earned.
They have fully earned their right to be there".
It leaves the reader persuaded that in the three stages of his astounding public career — Revolutionary War commander-in-chief, presiding officer of the Constitutional Convention, President of the United States — this childless, difficult man fully earned the right to be called Father of his Country.
NEVER AGAIN Slow to germinate and slower to grow, blood-veined dock — a kind of sorrel — fully earned Ms. Peirce's contempt.
Their Wembley appointment was fully earned, as they produced a performance of solidity, speed and sharpness to beat their highly-fancied hosts.
Hiaasen, by contrast, is Tex Avery, fast and sinuous and able to get his grotesques down in Day-Glo colors and fastidiously minimal gestures, with a knowing voice fully earned by how much he knows: The Flamingo Isles was not a classic Miami Beach motel.
Brutalist architecture here fully earns its name.
Elsewhere, Bierce's trick endings seem less fully earned.
