How To Use merited In A Sentence
- The 'clawback' measures allow banks to recoup bonuses that turn out to have been unmerited. Times, Sunday Times
- DESERVE He claims that their success was not merited.
- Parties are able to obtain relief when take place unmerited clarify and can raise objection and appeal, also possess the power of action for damages.
- Unmerited as this seems, it will work wonders. Times, Sunday Times
- When he made use of such a phrase as that quoted above, it was to be presumed that he in some sort meant what he said; and so he did, and had intended to signify that Crosbie by his conduct had merited all such condemnation as was the fitting punishment for blackguardism of the worst description. The Small House at Allington
- Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi was one of the great Talmudic sages, a man so holy he merited visitations from the prophet Eliyahu (Elijah).
- In contrast to his messy private life, his military career was one of unmerited success. Times, Sunday Times
- Closer examination, however, suggests that this assumption may not be merited by the evidence.
- It may be that on that basis (though it is doubtful) the original award was merited.
- In this taxonomy of transgression, original sin merited less punishment than did actual sins, as noted by the monk William in his debate with the heresiarch Henry of Lausanne (minori pena teneantur). A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries