Nor is it enough, even if it is often valid, to point out that many criticisms of businesses are unmerited, or that those throwing the mud ought also to examine their own practices and social responsibility.
Friedrich Hayek, an Austrian economist, admitted that conferring "unmerited benefits" on children is "unquestionably one of the institutional causes of inequality".
Yet behind the smiles lurks a host of knotty differences and disputes.Not that the praise was unmerited.
This biography, the first scholarly study of the work of Seuss, puts him in the pantheon of children's nonsense writers, alongside Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear.It is a demanding comparison, but not unmerited.
On June 29th oil markets responded to the latest euro summit with undisguised, and unmerited, glee.
Mr Pekhtin brushed off these "unmerited accusations".
Ashburnham incurred the unmerited charge of treachery, but of this he was acquitted by both Charles I and Charles II.
The son, Vasily, perished as an alcoholic after rising to unmerited high rank in the Soviet Air Force.
The revival preachers emphasized the "terrors of the law" to sinners, the unmerited grace of God, and the "new birth" in Jesus Christ.
The result of semi-Pelagianism, however, was the denial of the necessity of God's unmerited, supernatural, gracious empowering of man's will for saving action.
As an editor and critic, Henley was remembered by young writers as a benevolent bully, generous in his promotion and encouragement of unknown talents and fierce in his attacks on unmerited reputations.
