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To be sure, one might have doubted, after the wayward and impatient existence she had led, whether she merited a haven of peace at last.

This "wage premium" reflects the extent to which workers have been able to extract more pay than is merited by their qualifications.

Step two would be to produce a budget for top pay, so that if one executive merited exceptional rewards, others would have to take less.

In places like this, where the coffee is truly gourmet and made to order, a dollar tip, minimum, is definitely merited.

But many others are put off by Google's cocksure assertion of its own holiness, as if it merited unquestioning trust.

He merited all the praise, which had been given to him.

I started to respond in the comments, but it ran on for long enough that I decided it merited a blog post of its own.

Since then, while the firm remained small, it had achieved a merited reputation for high-quality prescription products.

It suggested fluorosis and arsenism was a systematic disorder and further studies on its potential hazard were merited.

In the merited, manually must specify missing structure information by extending a few curves from the known to the unknown regions.

The fact that he has declared himself a supporter of Hillary Clinton for the presidency merited a story in The New York Times this week.

In that regard, the idea of a development impact assessment merited serious consideration.

This was a "global crisis" , he argued, which merited a "global response" .

You get to linger over things that previously might have merited only a passing glance. Such as 38 statues of the Buddha.

The crime I'd committed that merited throwing me out of the neighborhood?

The Delegation observed that, in its view, five issues on the Assembly's agenda merited particular attention.

Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe.

China normally opposes sanctions but said at the time that civilian casualties in the Libyan conflict merited the embargo.

Larnell Cole's first-ever call-up to England is thoroughly merited, according to Reserves coach Warren Joyce.

The vote merited little coverage and elicited little response in Afghanistan.

He merited all the praise they gave him.

While there is speculation that supposedly risk-free governments might default, that conservatism looks merited.

This report caused more of a stir than it merited.

After that United brimmed with merited confidence.

Skepticism on price controls is merited.

He merited all the praises they give him.

He receives his merited praise.

To grant its wish would be to suggest that last year's rigged elections under an army-drafted constitution merited international acceptance.

Professor Pozorski said Mr. Roth's 80th birthday merited the fanfare.

That brave deed merited a better reward .

The brave deed merited a better reward.

The Three Mile Island accident of 1979 was rated 5; the Chernobyl disaster merited level 7.