Sentence examples for were merited from inspiring English sources
noun
Something deserving positive recognition.
- His reward for his merit was a check for $50.
"I took very seriously our responsibility to determine if our cases were merited," Mr. Edwards said.
All six of us got "A" grades in seminars we took together, and all were merited.
The boos and derogatory chants that greeted Villa as they trudged off for the interval were merited.
But that argument frequently makes it no easier for legacies to convince a classmate that their admissions were merited.
He said tax cuts were merited given projections that federal budget surpluses over the next decade will add up to more than $5 trillion.
His careful scholarly words also reiterated the Church's teaching that condoms trivialise sex, reducing it to a "self-administered drug", stoking promiscuity, and thus AIDS.Yet the headlines were merited.
Return visits are merited.
Their opportunity was merited.
Statistics suggest her fears are merited.
